NEW HAVEN, Conn. – No. 16 Harvard men's tennis (18-5, 4-1 Ivy) defeated No. 58 Yale (10-10, 1-4 Ivy), 4-0, to head into the final weekend of the regular season on a four-match win streak.
Harvard, which has been dominant in doubles play this season, began the day by grabbing yet another early 1-0 lead.
Melchior Delloye and
Benjamin Privara struck first at court two with a 6-2 decision. The No. 47 nationally ranked duo of
Daniel Milavsky and
David Lins followed to clinch the doubles point with a 6-3 victory at the top court.
Mitchell Lee tallied his second win of the weekend to collect the first singles victory for the Crimson. The first-year posted an impressive 6-4, 6-3 victory over Aidan Reilly (Yale) at court six.
Melchior Delloye followed shortly after with another straight set win. After taking the first set, Delloye battled through a tiebreaker in the second (7-6(2)) to put Harvard up 3-0.
With his 16
th win of the spring, Milavsky solidified the team victory with a gritty 7-6 (5), 7-5 defeat of Jim Hi (Yale) at the top court.
Results
Doubles
- No. 47 Daniel Milavsky/David Lins (Harvard) def. Jason Shuler/Jim Ji (Yale), 6-3
- Melchior Delloye/Benjamin Privara (Harvard) def. Krish Gupta/Tsoi (Yale), 6-2
- Eric Li/Edward Liao (Yale) def. Valdemar Pape/Masato Perera (Harvard), 6-3
Order of finish: 2, 1 and 3 simultaneous
Singles
- No. 30 Daniel Milavsky (Harvard) def. Jim Ji (Yale), 7-6 (5), 7-5
- No. 102 Benjamin Privara (Harvard) vs. Edward Liao (Yale), 6-2, 4-6, 3-3 DNF
- Valdemar Pape (Harvard) vs. Jason Shuler (Yale), 3-6, 6-3, 3-4 DNF
- Rohan Murali (Harvard) vs. Eric Li (Yale), 5-7, 6-6 (1-1) DNF
- Melchior Delloye (Harvard) def. Krish Gupta (Yale), 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Mitchell Lee (Harvard) def. Aidan Reilly (Yale), 6-4, 6-3
Order of finish: 6, 5, 1
Next Up
The Crimson will close out the regular season against No. 10 Columbia and No. 39 Cornell next weekend at home on Saturday, April 19, at 1:00 p.m. ET and Sunday, April 20, at 1:00 p.m. ET, respectively.
