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 |
