Revenge is sweet, or so the adage goes, and the varsity tennis team got plenty of it yesterday. Coach Jack Barnaby's squad made up for last year's 5-4 loss to Amherst by shellacking the Lord Jeffs, 8 to 1, on the Soldiers Field courts.

The Crimson's only loss of the afternoon came at first singles, where Amherst's highly regarded Tom Richardson outlasted varsity captain Ned Weld, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, in a tough match. Richardson, who had his game under perfect control, constantly hit the corners with beautiful passing shots, and Weld wasn't fast enough to get to them. After a fine start in which he took the first three games, the Crimson captain was a bit off his best game; on several occasions he netted smashes which he might have put away for easy points.

The varsity swept the remaining matches without the loss of a set. Bob Bowditch, looking very good at second singles, beat Don Hicks, 6-1, 6-2, and then paired with Weld to take the first doubles from Richardson and Hicks, 8-6, 6-2. Tim Gallwey, at number three, took Chris Grose, 6-2, 6-0, and fourth man Fred Vinton beat Marty Lowy, 6-2, 6-2. Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood rounded out the singles victories with easy wins over Mark Selden and Andy Ingersoll.

Since Vinton and Lemann will not be making the week-end trip to Navy and Pennsylvania, Freshman coach Corey Wynn (filling in for the ailing Barnaby) experimented with Gallwey and Wood as a second doubles team. They did very well, defeating Grose and Dave Inglis, 6-4, 6-1. At third doubles, Langden Smith and Scott Custer beat Lowy and Lee Talner, 7-5, 7-5.

With Joram Piatigorsky and Mark Woodbury leading the way, the undefeated Freshman team picked up its second straight shut-out win, blanking the Amherst freshmen, 9 to 0.