Marcan’s current combined junior ranking is 36th in the world and he peaked as high as 24th to start the year. Dino has a chance to be great, but he understands it will take hard work and he wants to do it.” “He won a grand slam junior title at the French Open this past May. “Dino is one of the most talented junior players in the world,” Tucker, the 2009 ITA National Coach of the Year, said. Marcan, a native of Rijeka, Croatia, is a right-hander, who took up the game at the age of 4. Its not like we have a couple good players and it drops off anyone can come away with a win on any day.COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ty Tucker, head coach of the Ohio State men’s tennis team, announced Dino Marcan and Nelson Vick will join the Buckeyes in 2010-11 after signing a Big Ten Tender last week. “I don’t want to say as a younger team we have more of a learning curve and we are definitely growing each day to help our team in the future,” Chaudhuri. The sophomore said that the team boasts equal talent across its lineup and that, one through six, it has the ability to pull out tough matches. We played a lot better at the end of the tournament then at the beginning.”Ĭhaudhuri said that the strength of the team, which is very young, with only one senior and two juniors, is its depth. I thought we matched that energy and rose to the occasion. “Especially in the finals.the other team was very rowdy and brought a lot of energy. “I thought we fought really well,” Steer said. It was the first match of the year that the Crimson played outside. Denis Nguyen fell, 6-3, 6-3, in line one action, and MacMaster and Steinroeder were in second-set tiebreakers when they stopped playing. Lam continued his hot start, winning the first six games of his match to stretch his streak to 14 in a row before winning the final set, 7-5. In singles, Harvard recorded wins in straight sets at the second, fourth, and fifth lines. Steinroeder and Lam did not lose a game in winning their doubles opener, 8-0, and Andy Nguyen and Hu helped the Crimson clinch the doubles point with an 8-1 victory. Harvard stretched its win streak to five in its Thursday opener, defeating UAB, 4-1, in the first round of the tournament. We had a couple days to train outdoors, and I think everyone worked hard and was ready, and we took out some very good teams so it was a very good week overall.” “We went outdoors for the first time this season, and we competed well. “I thought everyone on the team played well ,” Chaudhuri said. Hu and Nguyen lost a combined seven games in the two matches. While Steinroeder lost in the number three line against Aztec Hunter Nicholas, Andy Nguyen and Hu pulled out wins on lines four and five to propel Harvard to victory. Nguyen and MacMaster took line one doubles, and then in the singles, Nguyen lost the first set, 2-6, to the Aztecs’ Derek Siddiqui but battled back to take the next two sets, 6-0, 6-1. In the semifinals, the Crimson defeated host San Diego State behind two wins from Denis Nguyen. A lot of times it just takes fight and heart and finding a way to get it done.” “This team wins matches when guys go out there and they don’t have their best day, but they find a way to win. “I think the main strength of this team is its fight and resiliency,” Steer said. Hu lost the first set, 2-6, to Drake’s Jean Erasmus before finishing the match off, 6-3, 7-6(5). However, freshman Nicky Hu, senior Andy Nguyen, and sophomore Shaun Chaudhuri were able to pull out wins to clinch the victory for Harvard. In singles, Lam quickly fell on line six to Drake’s Ben Mullis, 6-1, 6-1. Junior Casey MacMaster and sophomore Denis Nguyen took the line one doubles, 8-3, while freshmen Kelvin Lam and sophomore Alex Steinroeder defeated Drake’s line three team, 9-7. Harvard began quickly against Drake, taking two of the doubles matches in quick succession. It’s a match where the team came together and found a way to win.” It was a good confidence-building win against a top 20 opponent. “The match in the finals is a really good match for the team because it showed we can beat good opponents. “I think, first of all, it is great playing outdoors because it is more of a physical game,” sophomore Henry Steer said. 20 Drake (17-2), culminating a three-day stretch in which the team took 12 of 16 matches. The Crimson finished with a 4-2 win Saturday over No. 23 Harvard men’s tennis team (12-4) captured the Mission Valley Spring Classic. After breaking into the AP Top 25, the No.
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