Two games away from elimination, Passarella and Clark continued to prey on the serve of Aaron Marchetti--the Crimson broke his serve five straight games in one stretch--to go up 6-5 and held to take the set by a 7-5 margin.

Naturally, the third set was a mirror image of the first two--back-and-forth and very tense.

This time, the Crimson struck first with a break to go up 5-3. But the lead was short lived, as the Marchettis broke right back to take the set to 5-5 for the third straight time.

Naturally, Clark and Passarella went back to the well one more time, breaking Aaron Marchetti to go up 6-5. Harvard's co-captain closed things out by holding serve in a tight final game for a 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 win and a slot in the semifinals.

After taking the tough three-setter from the Marchettis, Passarella and Clark cruised, relatively, to the title. The straight set win in the finals was preceded by a 6-4, 6-4 defeat of Princeton's team of Sweeney and Liu in the semifinals in which the Crimson team was never broken.

In singles, Majmudar had to contend with the Marchettis and came away with a win and a draw.

In the semifinals, the third-seeded Majmudar used all of his skills in upsetting Aaron Marchetti, the tournament's No. 1 seed.

Majmudar got broken early in his battle with Marchetti and couldn't manage to break back in dropping the first set, 4-6.

"He was a very good player, but neither of us felt comfortable with our serves in the first set," Majmudar said. "We traded a lot of breaks in the first set, but he came out on top."

The senior battled back using a mix of power and touch in his much improved serve to dominate the second set, 6-2, and tie things up.

The deciding set was nip and tuck the whole way. The players were even until 4-4, when Majmudar made his move.

"The third set was tough," Majmudar said. "With new balls we both were holding serve. At 4-4, I returned really well and had a bunch of break points. He saved about five of them before I finally broke."

Up 5-4 and serving for a spot in the Indoor Nationals, Majmudar jumped out to a quick 40-15 lead and looked ready to close things out. Marchetti wasn't going away easily and fought back to deuce before Majmudar closed him out.

"He kept coming up with big passing shots, but I kept the pressure on and closed it out," Majmudar said.

The win set up a finals match-up with the other Marchetti--Adam--but the Harvard student-athlete acted as just that--a student-athlete--and returned to campus for an academic commitment, forfeiting the finals.