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...Northeast Regionals last year. In the finals of the singles event, Clayton played through cramps to defeat Columbia’s Bogdan Borta, the seventh seed in the tournament. Down 5-1 in the first set, Clayton succeeded in breaking back twice and forced Borta into a tiebreak, which Clayton seized. In the second, the tables were turned, as Borta stormed back to take the set in another close tiebreaker. The match was a toss-up at that point, but a persistent Clayton wore down his opponent with sharp angled shots and dominant rallies in the third...
...fight she did. The senior slowly clawed her way back into the set. It eventually came down to a nail-biter of a tiebreak, in which she was once again down...
...played good tennis, even though it was a little let-down [in intensity] after clinching.” It was a long day for co-captain Dan Nguyen and junior Michael Kalfayan. Both dropped their first set, only to come back and win in the super tiebreak. Nguyen, playing in the third singles position, fought off an early 5-7 setback, won the second set 6-2, and finally dispatched his opponent 10-7. Kalfayan, who has seen limited playing time this year, was the highlight of the day and capped the Crimson’s shutout of Dartmouth with...
...contest, which finished with two Harvard wins, ended up being a thriller on paper.“It was probably our best tennis of the year so far,” Crimson coach Dave Fish said. “They barely eked it out—just one tiebreak was the difference.”A win against either the Wildcats or Virginia would have vaulted Harvard even further up the national rankings, but with the losses, the Crimson’s ranking is likely to hover around 50. VIRGINIA 6, HARVARD 1Harvard found out quickly it?...
...taking the supertiebreaker, 10-8. Clayton, after winning the first set 6-4, seemed ready to win the match, up a break at 4-3 in the second, but was broken back and eventually lost the set 6-4.“I lucked out a little in the tiebreak,” Clayton said of his opponent’s inability to hold a match point in the tiebreak. Clayton eventually won, 12-10.Nguyen, who by his own admission “couldn’t find the court,” suffered Harvard’s only loss...