The 15th-ranked Harvard men's tennis team finally had a chance to display its awesome talent to the home crowd at the Beren Tennis Center this weekend. After two months of competition on the road, the Crimson (18-3) did not disappoint the locals.

The weekend was highlighted by a 6-1 drubbing of a strong Princeton team on Saturday during which only one Harvard singles player lost a set. The homestand started with a powerful 7-0 domination of a weaker Navy squad on Friday.

Most impressive may be the fact that through all of this, the Harvard squad was undermanned. Senior co-captain and number one player Tom Blake suffered an injury early in the week that kept him out of the weekend's contests.

"Tom injured a hamstring Monday in the last sprint of the day," said head coach Dave Fish '72. "He's the fastest healer I've ever seen. He continues to amaze me, but it doesn't look great."

"Tom got hurt Monday, so once we knew we had to move up I think it had an effect on our practice," co-captain Philip Tseng said. "Everyone knew we had to step up with the injury and that got us going."

With or without Tom Blake, the Crimson could not have looked much stronger on Saturday. Harvard swept the doubles matches with freshman James Blake and sophomore John Doran at the top position (8-4), junior Kunj Majmudar and freshman Scott Clark (8-5) in the second slot and Tseng and junior Mike Passarella (8-4) at third doubles. The domination carried through to singles play as Harvard jumped all over the Tigers at the beginning of the match.

"Keeping the momentum we have had recently was important thing," Tseng said." We came out strong in singles from the start. All that energy we had may have affected them."

The Crimson charge was led by a New Yorker's double bagel--Majmudar's 6-0, 6-0 destruction of Kyle Kilegerman at the number two singles spot. Majmudar normally plays the fourth spot, but with Tom Blake out everyone moved up, and for this match Majmudar played ahead of Doran. The lineup change clearly paid off.

"We're all really excited [that Majmudar] dominated," Tseng said. "Coach moved him up because he knew he was capable of winning there."

"Kunj was surgical today," Fish said. "He just kept taking it to the guy."

As Majmudar was frustrating his opponent, the anguished yelling of other Tigers let everyone know who was in control of the match.

Playing in his brother's number one spot, James Blake had a tough matchup with Jon Gilula, but Blake won the big points and handled any pressure with relative ease.

Blake broke serve in the ninth game of the first set to go up 5-4. The first break of the match was all he needed as a crisp service game closed out the set.

Blake carried the momentum of the first set win into the second. Blake's opponent began serving and volleying in the initial game, and took the first point to go up 15-0. On the next point Blake hit a gorgeous topspin lob for a winner for 15-15. On the next two points a huge forehand pass and an unplayable service return gave Blake two break points. The freshman squandered one break chance, but took the game with a spectacular topspin forehand taken out of the air.

The one service break was again all Blake needed. He closed out the match by holding at love, with three service-winners in the game, including an ace on match point.

Aces were wild for Doran as well. His all-courtgame kept him in control of the match against AhnAhn Liu from the beginning and he also finishedoff his opponent 6-3, 6-2 with an ace on matchpoint.