The Crimson was lacking in key areas over the weekend, as evidenced by the disappointing showing.

Although the Crimson had four players entered in the flight A singles, it lacked the one overwhelmingly-dominant player who could out-match the entire draw.

Captain Andrew Rueb and sophomore Todd Meringoff have proven in the past that they can dominate a singles draw, but both are still coming off injuries and were not in the lineup. Also, the lack of experience in match play hunt the Crimson throughout the tournament.

Besides a handful of challenge matches during practice, Harvard had played very few sets in preparation for the tournament.

With two weeks remaining until the ECAC tournament, however, there is ample time to address these deficiencies.

Both Meringoff and Rueb are probable for the pivotal tournament of the fall tennis season. And practices this week will give them more match experience.

"We were definitely rusty out there," Arnold said. "It'll get better, though, after we play some more matches in practice."

Still, the seeds of a promising season were not trampled by the results this weekend.

"The commitment, comradery, and talent is there," Tseng remarked of his new team.

Now they just have to wait for some positive results.