University of Minnesota Athletics
Men's Tennis Edged by No. 21 Harvard, 4-3
2/16/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Harvard opened the dual winning two of three doubles matches. Andres Osorio and Chris Wettengel gained the lone doubles win for Minnesota, winning 8-7 (4) over Chris Chiou and Jack Li . The No. 1 doubles match between UM's Clay Estes/ Avery Ticer and HU's Jonathon Chu/David Lingman went to 8-8 with Harvard winning the tiebreaker, 7-4.
In singles play, Minnesota jumped out to early leads in all of its matches, but could only pull out wins in three bouts. At No. 1, Aleksey Zharinov upended 38th-ranked Lingman in the lone straight-sets match, 7-6 (3), 6-1. The Crimson went up 3-1 with wins at No. 2 and 4 and grabbed the dual-clinching win at No. 6 with George Turner's 0-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over D usan Tabak.
The Golden Gophers head to Eugene, Ore., to face Georgia Tech and host Oregon on March 6-7.
No. 21 Harvard 4, No. 31 Minnesota 3
Singles
No. 1 - Al eksey Zharinov (UM) def. David Lingman (HU), 7-6 (3), 6-1
No. 2 - Jonathon Chu (HU) def. C hris Wettengel (UM), 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
No. 3 - A very Ticer (UM) def. Mark Riddell (HU), 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-5 (4)
No. 4 - Cliff Nguyen (HU) def. A ndres Osorio (UM), 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
No. 5 - Br ian Lipinski (UM) def. Chris Chiou (HU), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
No. 6 - George Turner (HU) def. D usan Tabak (UM), 0-6, 7-5, 6-4
Doubles
No. 1 - Lingman/Chu (HU) def. Estes/Ticer (UM), 9-8 (4)
No. 2 - Riddell/Brandon Chiu (HU) def. Zharinov/Si on Wilkins (UM), 8-3
No. 3 - Wettengel/Osorio (UM) def. Chiou/Jack Li (HU), 8-7 (4)
