Fortunately, the bottom half was able to pull through. Sophomore Shantanu Dhaka was treated for an injury, so he did not finish the fourth match, but Nguyen won 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, tying the overall match score.

“Then Brandon [Chiu] capped off the victory,” Fish said. “It was very exciting.”

Chui fought hard, winning the first set, 6-3, but dropping the second, 6-4. In the third set, he was able to break his opponent at four-all and then serve out the match—and clinch the Harvard victory.

“I finished the last match, and that was the first time I had done that,” Chiu said. “It was great to have the support of my team.”

COLORADO 4, HARVARD 3

Coming off a disappointing loss the day before, Harvard managed a quick start against Colorado.

Chu and Chiu took their doubles match 8-5, while sophomore Gideon Valkin and Nguyen lost the third contest, 8-6.

The middle duo of Dhaka and Kumar triumphed to secure the doubles point for the Crimson, but after this intiial success, Harvard began to falter.

An injured Chu battled through the top singles match but fell in two sets, 6-4, 6-1.

Kumar also lost in straight sets, 6-1, 7-5, and the Crimson fell behind 2-1.

Chui took the fifth singles contest in straight sets, tying the score at two, and Dhaka mounted a three-set comeback to push the Crimson ahead, 3-2.

It was up to Valkin or Nguyen to clinch the victory, then, but neither pulled through.

Valkin had lost his first set in a tiebreak, but after countering with a 6-1 win of the second set, he lost momentum and fell 6-3 in the third.

Nguyen also battled his way through three sets, but only to find the same result as Valkin.