“That’s the best-case scenario,” Beren said. “It shows you how strong our team is doing this year.”

Like Beren and Wetzel, Chu and Kumar faced a Brown duo in their quarterfinal match—a team that had won the regional tournament three years ago as freshmen. The match was a battle from the outset, but Harvard was able to hold off the Bears 9-7.

“It’s good that we have been consistently beating Brown—our rival—in the tournament,” Beren said.

And the drubbing of the Bears continued. In addition to advancing to the doubles final, Wetzel also played a superb quarterfinal match against Brown’s No. 1 player, Nick Goldberg. Though Wetzel was seeded significantly lower, he dominated the match, winning 6-4, 6-4 and earning a spot in the semifinals.

“For everyone else, it was probably an upset,” Fish said. “I sort of felt that Martin had that in him.”

“Martin is playing extremely well right now,” Beren added. “This is what we’ve seen in practice, and it’s good to see him do it in matches.”

By securing a semifinal spot, Wetzel opened up the possibility of an all-Harvard singles final as well.

“There’s a lot of tennis left before we can think of that,” Fish said. “But obviously we’d love for it to happen.”

Both the singles semifinals and the finals will be played this morning.