May 22, 2002

Duke's Phillip King defeated Harvard's Jonathan Chu in three sets on Wednesday to advance to the second round of the singles bracket of the 2002 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships held at the Texas A&M Tennis Center in College Station, Texas.

King dropped the opening set in a tie-breaker before winning the second set, 6-0. He then closed out the match with a 6-3 third set and next will face Todd Widom of Miami (Fla.), a three-set winner over Penn State's Jamie Gresh.

Michael Yani of Duke suffered an opening round loss to Andy Lever of Texas-Arlington, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

King and Yani will open doubles play on Thursday, taking on Vanderbilt's tandem of Bobby Reynolds and Lewis Smith.

2002 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships -- Singles Bracket
Phillip King, Duke def. Jonathan Chu, Harvard, 6-7 (6), 6-0, 6-3
Andy Leber, Texas-Arlington def. Michael Yani, Duke, 6-4, 7-6 (5)