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...Pepperdine supplemented its doubles point with three straight-sets singles victories to inch by. The Harvard duo of juniors Gideon Valkin and Scott Denenberg took the No. 2 match 8-4, and sophomore Ashwin Kumar and freshman Sasha Ermakov pushed the top pair in the nation to a tiebreak at No. 1, but the Green Waves took the first and third matches for an early 1-0 advantage. Kumar edged out a 4-6, 6-2, 11-9 victory over No. 19 Pedro Rico in the top singles match. “He struggled in the spring...
...more difficult time against Salge in the No. 3 spot and fell, 6-4, 6-4. Despite being sick with the flu, Wang battled hard against the Tigers’ Alvarez in the No. 1 position and nearly pulled out the second set. Alvarez, however, secured the tiebreak and won the match by advantages of 6-1 and 7-5. On the second court was O’Riain, who after three sets brought Harvard one point closer to victory in a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 decision. Anderson, in the No. 4 spot, bounced back after losing...
...best doubles competition of the day, however, occurred in the top match-up, between the pair of co-captain Brandon Chiu and sophomore Ashwin Kumar and the pair of Spartans’ Adam Monich and Nick Rinks, ranked No. 41 in the nation. The match went into a tiebreak at eight games apiece. Although down, 4-2, at the side change, Chiu and Kumar rallied back to finish the sweep at the doubles for Harvard. “The doubles were very good,” Chiu said. “The entire team had good energy...
...ball with a lunging volley that landed just over the net, leading to a put-away winner from partner Anderson. From that point on, the duo went on a tear to even the score at 6-6. After splitting the next four games, the team dominated in the tiebreak, pulling away from the Gamecocks tandem to win 9-8 (8-5) “The doubles was a trigger point for our success,” O’Riain said. “The girls we were playing would hit slow, so halfway through we decided...
...close to pulling an upset against the country’s No. 1 pair of Catrina and Christian Thompson, as the duo led, 6-5, late in the match. The All-American twins came back to tie the match and eventually triumph by a 9-8 margin, winning the tiebreak, 7-5. Sophomore Stephanie Schnitter and senior Eva Wang at No. 2 and Chu and junior Preethi Mukundan at No. 3 fell to the Irish, whose pairs are ranked No. 35 and No. 45, by 8-1 scores. Notre Dame won three straight singles contests to clinch the match...