Senior Mark Riddell—who lost his doubles match with partner Brandon Chiu in disappointing 8-6 fashion—hung on for a 6-2, 7-6 (4) victory to complete the singles sweep. Riddell had run away with the first set and held a 4-2 advantage in the second but needed a tiebreak for the victory.

HARVARD 7, FURMAN 0

This time there was no fooling around, as Harvard swept both the doubles and the singles competitions to hand Furman (1-7) a bagel.

With senior George Turner and junior Jason Beren now playing at the third doubles match, the squad seemed recharged.

“I was happy with the energy level that our team came with,” Fish said. “[Against the Lobos], I thought we were a little flat. And certainly [Turner and Beren] came out, [and we got] a lot of energy out of that.”

The three doubles pairs won their matches within a three-minute span, and Harvard—for the first time in a long while—translated the doubles success into a quick singles start.

Chu took his singles match 6-1, 6-1, and Riddell wasn’t far behind with a 6-2, 6-2 effort in the third slot. Clinching the dual match was Lingman, with a 6-2, 6-2 victory of his own.

“To have David [Lingman] and Jonathan [Chu] and Mark [Riddell] come right out of the blocks hard makes it very hard for [the other] team to recover,” Fish said.

Indeed, Li held on 6-2, 7-5 for the fifth singles match, and Turner, playing in the sixth spot, lost the first set 5-7 before taking the second 6-1 and winning with an abbreviated third.

Playing the fourth singles match, Nguyen won his first set 6-2 with steady play but fell behind 1-5 in the second. Nguyen mounted an impressive comeback, however, forcing a second-set tiebreak, which he promptly won by a 7-4 count.

“Good weekend,” Fish said, acknowledging the audible crowd which had supported the players. “The goal is [always] to play with that kind of energy, because we know that we can’t compete with any of the stronger teams unless we have that.”

The Crimson will get to work on that energy over the next two weekends, during which the team will play the Blue Gray Invitational in Alabama and the March Men’s Open at home—though both events will not affect Harvard’s record.

After that, the squad is headed west to take on No. 29 California and No. 4 Stanford.