"I was really happy with how Doran played,"Fish said. "He went after it more aggressivelytoday."
Playing side-by-side, Tseng and Passerman mayhave fed off each other in their victories.
Tseng jumped out on Jeff Schachter quickly,taking the first set 6-2 and jumping out to a 5-0lead in the second. Through all of this hisopponent was whining and cursing his fate as Tsengsteadily dominated from the backcourt.
Passerman, meanwhile, was in a tough match atthe sixth slot against David Schonbraun. The firstset went to the tiebreaker where Passermanprevailed 7-6.
"If one court is dominating, it will have aneffect on other courts," Tseng said. "It kind offlows from court to court. That may have been thecase with me and Mike."
As Tseng was closing his opponent out, 6-2 inthe second, Passarella jumped out early in thesecond. His opponent, frustrated with losing thefirst set, played a loose service game and wasbroken in the first game of the second set.Passarella effectively closed the door in the nextgame with a tough, hard-fought hold of service togo up 2-0. After this his opponent unraveledmentally, and lost the match (7-6,6-3) on anignominious double fault.
The only Crimson player to drop a singles setwas Clark at the fifth spot. The freshman droppedthe first set tiebreaker to Patrick Sweeney, butfought back by winning the second set tiebreakeron an ace.
The third set featured inspired play. Bothplayers held serve twice for a 2-2 score. Clark'sopponent then broke serve to take an earlyadvantage. However, Clark fought back, winning twoextraordinary, lengthy points on the way tobreaking back after his opponent choked a volley.
At 3-3 Clark's serve was again broken, butClarke jumped right back to even things at 4-4. Inthe ninth game, Clark fell down love-30 on servebefore winning the next three points. Up 40-30Clark hit a solid approach and was about to putaway a forehand volley to go up 5-4 when hetwisted an ankle and tumbled to the ground.
As Fish and the trainer headed onto the court,it was pretty clear this match was over. With thedual meet in hand, Clark would live to fightanother day and retired for the Crimson's onlyblemish on the day.
"We lost to Princeton last year in a dual matchso we were pretty fired up to play them," Tsengsaid. "We wanted revenge."
In light of this battle, the Navy contest wasof little note. The Crimson dominated the actionfrom start to finish, pulling off the 7-0 sweepthat was denied it on Saturday.
"Navy was a good squad, but not as strong asPrinceton," Fish said. "It was nice to be athome."
The most interesting individual result wasJames Blake's at the number one position. Blakewas stretched to three sets against Navy's MitchKoch, but prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
The lineup was fundamentally the same, with thesubstitution of sophomore Joe Green instead ofPasserman at six singles. Green also took threesets in dispatching Dan Stahlschmidt 6-1, 3-7,6-2.
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