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pace doesn’t bother her—she can handle Matsuda, he says, “is from the old school. Harvard’s men’s and women’s teams, a guy’s pace. She likes to dictate play.” Su- He will only take people who are driven in- ranked as high as twelfth and eleventh, re- sanna is not one of those patient retriev- ternally.” The workouts include a lot of spectively, in the country this year, are ers who win by waiting for opponents to movement and agility drills on the court: once again the powers of the Ivy League. make an error. “She likes to go after you “You don’t want to waste steps,” Dave ex- The Crimson have dominated Ivy tennis and pound away,” says Graham. As Su- plains. “Move with the least amount of en- for the past two decades, with each pro- sanna puts it, “I like to finish my points.” ergy, nothing extra mentally or physically.” gram winning or sharing 13 of the 20 league Dave uses more spin than his sister and There’s also cardio work with stairs, tread- titles contested among their peers since is far more comfortable at net. “He has mills, and resistance conditioning with 1984. This year, the women’s team has bat- great o≠ensive capabilities,” says Fish. harnesses and elastic bands. “The more I tled injuries to several players, including “Dave’s forehand and his speed are his give, the more he’ll give,” Dave says. “My Susanna and her doubles partner Bergman greatest assets. He doesn’t get a lot of free improvement was remarkable.” (the country’s nineteenth-ranked doubles points from his serve, but he uses it e≠ec- Dave had a strong career as a junior team), but like the men, were favored to re- tively to set up his points.” Susanna says player; opponents included current top peat as league champions. that Dave “is smart about the way he plays pros Andy Roddick and Taylor Dent. Yet With his cocaptain Cli≠ Nguyen ’04, his points. He’s not just trying to hit win- he stopped competing in his senior year Dave, an economics concentrator, has en- ners. He will pick away at their armor.” in high school. “There was a lot of pres- couraged teammates to “pump it up and Both Lingmans swing Babolat rac- sure and I started not to enjoy tennis,” he really get down and work hard in prac- quets—Dave plays the blue “Pure Drive” recalls. “I felt I was losing out on a lot of tice without making excuses for your- stick, favored by Andy Roddick, Kim Cli- other things, like the ability to be at home self,” he says. “You tell other guys, ‘This is jesters, and many top professionals; Su- and have friends.” He lost his ranking and what you need to work on—if I were sanna’s red “Pure Control” model is less wasn’t o≠ered full tennis scholarships, playing you, this is what I’d do to you.’ If seen on the pro tour but a deadly weapon but was still recruited. Musing on his col- you aren’t doing that, you’re taking prac- in her hands. Both sport stylish earrings, lege decision, Dave recalls thinking, “Go tice away from other guys. I chose tennis though they claim not to advise each to the best school in the nation, or go because it was an individual sport; I al- other on jewelry. And both train with Ken somewhere else and try to really develop ways wanted to be the master of my own Matsuda, whose charges have included my tennis? Then I realized that James destiny. But I have really enjoyed the Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Paradorn [Blake] had played at Harvard and gone team aspect. You can actually bring each Srichipan, and Taylor Dent. on to a higher level in tennis. I felt I could other up.” Matsuda’s take-no-prisoners workouts improve my own game there and also help Yes, you can, including your sibling. In have paid o≠ in quick starts, leg speed, the team improve.” addition to weekly dinners together and strength, and endurance. “Tennis is all In 2000, after his freshman year, Dave innumerable phone calls and e-mails, Su- about legs, way more than arms,” Susanna left Harvard to try his luck on the pro ten- sannah and Dave go out on the tennis says. “Legs and movement, getting to the nis tour for a year and a half; he returned a court and hit balls, usually early in the place where you can best hit the shot you far more seasoned competitor, having morning, once a week. After college, both want to hit.” Dave says, “The most impor- faced “guys playing for bread money and expect to play on the professional tour— tant thing in my game is speed, getting also calling their own lines,” he says. This where four tournaments do have mixed my legs under me.” year, by late March he was ranked twen- doubles events. Some day, you just might Jantzen (left) and ty-seventh in the nation in singles and, see a Lingman-Lingman team out there, Harkness in St. Louis with his partner, Jonathan Chu ’05, thirty- playing in one of the Grand Slams. eighth nationally in doubles. craig lambert

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national championship, which he did in Championships.The Crimson men van- the 149-pound class. (John Harkness ’38, quished Clarkson, 3-2, while the women who won at 175 pounds in 1938, saw took out St. Lawrence, 6-1. Maine’s men Jantzen’s victory in St. Louis.) Jantzen’s rallied to beat Harvard, 5-4, in the dominance earned him the title of Most NCAA first round; the icewomen went COURTESY OF JESSE JANTZEN Outstanding Wrestler for the tourney. all the way to the NCAA final before Wrestling falling to Minnesota, 6-2. Senior de- At the NCAA tournament in March, Ice Hockey fender Angela Ruggiero won the Patty Jesse Jantzen ’04 (above) became only For the first time ever, one college won Kazmaier Award as the top player among the second Harvard grappler to win a both the men’s and women’s ECAC college women.

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