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...Though it let the Ivy League crown slip through its fingers this year, the Harvard men’s tennis team proved that it’s a team to be excited about. After strong nonconference play, the Crimson (14-10, 5-2 Ivy) suffered pivotal back-to-back losses in the Ivy League opening weekend, crushing its hopes early on for the conference championship...
...League play, though it suffered back-to-back losses in the opening weekend, the Crimson rebounded with a five-match conference winning streak to tie for second place...
Harvard’s lineup varied widely this year, shifting as players lost and gained momentum. Though junior Alexei Chijoff-Evans was a fixture at No. 1, the No. 2 through No. 6 spots remained flexible, filled in some order by junior Aba Omodele-Lucien, sophomore Alistair Felton, and freshmen Tchan, Andy Nguyen, and Christo Schultz...
Soon enough, though, this offensive unit began to gel, and fueled by solid goaltending, the Crimson turned things around. Harvard reeled off three wins in the next five contests—including league wins over MIT and Queens (N.Y.)—thanks in large part to the work of senior Nikhil Balaraman and sophomore Alexandre Popp between the pipes...
...Though Ohiri and the other Nigerian recruits were not the first students to attend Harvard from Nigeria—Malin said he recalls admits in the classes of 1954 and 1959—there was an expectation that the handful of African students selected each year would return to their home countries to become political and intellectual leaders...