CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – With the first day of the singles and doubles main draws of the ITA New England Regionals beginning this morning in Cambridge, the Crimson looked dominant, posting 11 wins across 14 matches. 

To start the day, Harvard had four victorious tandems in doubles action, led by the No. 84 nationally ranked duo and two-seed Masato Perera and Benjamin Privara blanking Matthew Carlson and Ezequiel de la Plaze (Holy Cross), 8-0.  James MacDonald and Valdemar Pape followed closely behind with an 8-1 result over Finn Burridge and Carlos Braun Simo (Quinnipiac). 

Melchior Delloye and Mitchell Lee and Rohan Murali and Elisha Thornton provided the last two doubles victories for Harvard, posting 8-3 and 8-6 decisions, respectively. 

Moving into singles, the Crimson registered seven additional victories.  Perera, Privara, Pape, and Lee each downed their opponents in straight sets.  Pape recorded the highlight win of the day, dropping the seventh-seeded Rodrigo Fernandes (Cornell) in dominant fashion while dropping just three games. 

Murali, Marc Ktiri, and Delloye collected the final victories of the day, each battling through three-set matches to advance to the round of 32. 

Results

Doubles
[7] Melchior Delloye/Mitchell Lee (Harvard) def. Ian Layton/Fateh Singh (Marist), 8-3
[9-16] James MacDonald/Valdemar Pape (Harvard) def. Finn Burridge/Carlos Braun Simo (Quinnipiac), 8-1
Ronin Lotikar/Zubin Omar (Binghamton) def. Brick Johnson/Marc Ktiri (Harvard), 8-3
[9-16] Rohan Murali/Elisha Thornton (Harvard) def. Elias Hoxha/Csanad Nyaradi (Quinnipiac), 8-6
[2] No. 84 Masato Perera/Benjamin Privara (Harvard) def. Matthew Carlson/Ezequiel de la Plaza (Holy Cross), 8-0
 
Singles
[9-16] Masato Perera (Harvard) def. Roshil Khosla (Cornell), 7-5, 6-4
[6] Eric Li (Yale) def. Elisha Thornton (Harvard), 6-3, 6-4
[4] No. 68 Benjamin Privara (Harvard) def. Hikaru Takeda (Dartmouth), 7-6 (7), 7-5
Valdemar Pape (Harvard) def. [7] Rodrigo Fernandes (Cornell), 6-3, 6-0
Krish Gupta (Yale) def. James MacDonald (Harvard), 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
[5] Rohan Murali (Harvard) def. Noah Hernandez (Brown), 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
Marc Ktiri (Harvard) def. Josh Israel (Colgate), 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
[9-16] Melchior Delloye (Harvard) def. Jake Vassel (Boston College), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
Mitchell Lee (Harvard) def. Waleed Qadir (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-2

Next Up

Harvard will return to action with the round of 32 doubles along with both the round of 32 and 16 singles matches beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET from the Murr Center and Beren Tennis Center.