Crimson Men's Tennis Advances to ECAC Indoor Championship Semifinals
Junior Jonathan Pearlman won his match at the top singles slot for the Crimson Saturday (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Saturday the close result went the Crimson's way, as the fourth-seeded Harvard men's tennis team edged No. 5 Brown, 4-3, to extend its win streak to four and advance to the ECAC Indoor Championship semifinals.
The Crimson swept all three doubles matches to open the dual with a 1-0 lead. The duos of Alistair Felton and Andy Nguyen and Casey MacMaster and Jonathan Pearlman each went to a tiebreaker, but came out on top, 9-8.
Harvard received the three singles victories it needed with wins from Pearlman at No. 1, Nguyen at No. 4 and MacMaster at No. 6.
The Crimson will face top-seeded Cornell at 3 p.m. Sunday. The Big Red topped No. 8 Columbia, 6-1, Saturday night. The other semifinal will be at 11:30 a.m. between No. 2 Princeton and No. 3 Binghamton.
Harvard 4, Brown 3
| No. | Singles | Score | |
| 1 | Jonathan Pearlman def. Brandon Burke | 6-3, 6-2 | |
| 2 | Mike Hill def. Alistair Felton | 7-6(8), 6-1 | |
| 3 | Sam Fife def. Aba Omodele-Lucien | 6-3, 6-4 | |
| 4 | Andy Nguyen def. Tom Deighton | 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 | |
| 5 | Kendrick Au def. Joshua Tchan | 6-1, 6-3 | |
| 6 | Casey MacMaster def. Timmy Klanke | 7-6(5), 6-2 | |
| Doubles | |||
| 1 | Felton/Nguyen def. Soufiane Azargui/Burke | 9-8 (7-3) | |
| 2 | MacMaster/Pearlman def. Au/Deighton | 9-8 (7-4) | |
| 3 | Omodele-Lucien/Tchan def. Fife/Charlie Posner | 8-6 |
