Harvard had lost, but its best performance of the day was still to come.
Lee was playing Wallmark, a native of Sweden and the No. 24 player in the country. Wallmark had defeated Lee in a third set tiebreak at last year's ITA Indoor Team Nationals, and the memory was clearly fresh in both players' minds.
Lee took the first set 6-4, but Wallmark got right back with a 7-5 win in the second. The third set would be pure drama.
Lee went up 3-0 after a break, but Wallmark broke back and knotted the score at 3-3. The two opponents kept on serve for the next five games. Serving at 5-6, Lee had literally run himself out of his shoes, which were now unusable.
He appealed to his teammates and to the crowd for a pair of size 11s, and finally Coach Fish donated his shoes.
"These have a lot of wisdom, but I'm not certain how much speed is in them," Fish said.
Lee held serve and then ran over Wallmark, 7-2, in the tiebreaker to exact his revenge.
The Crimson's record now stands at 8-7 as it prepares to move into the Ivy League season. It will host Cornell on Friday at 2pm and Columbia Saturday at noon at the Beren Tennis Center.