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Geoff Abrams' tennis game has grown a lot since his days at Newport Harbor High. But Saturday at the Pac-10 men's singles championships, the 6-foot-5 Stanford junior showed that his game might need another growth spurt.
Abrams, nearly a foot taller than his semifinal opponent, Arizona State's Gustavo Marcaccio, played small on the big points and lost, 6-4, 6-4, in front of packed grandstands at Libbey Park.
"I don't think I played a great match, but I was solid on the important points," said Marcaccio, a senior from Buenos Aires, who is ranked 43rd, one spot below Abrams in the NCAA singles rankings.
With his high school coach, Charlie Blieker, and a host of friends and family looking on, Abrams was steady throughout most of the 90-minute match. But he played loose service games in the 10th game of both sets, and that was his...