Playing at the No. 2 position, Felton came out victorious in two tie-break sets, taking the first, 7-3, and the second, 7-5. Nguyen also managed to pull out the victory in tie-break fashion, this time in the third set after he and Tom Puetz split the first two.

ETSU 5, HARVARD 2

The Crimson jumped out to an early lead with the doubles point, but things took a turn for the worse when the squad dropped five of its six singles matches.

In the doubles, the pairs of MacMaster-Omodele-Lucien and Pearlman-Tchan secured the point for Harvard, 8-4 and 8-6, respectively. Felton and Nguyen dropped a close matchup against Jesus Bandres and Sander Gille, 8-6.

Tchan was the lone Crimson player to earn a point for the squad in the singles. His opponent trounced Tchan in the first set, 6-1, but Tchan came back in the second to even the match at one set apiece.

“[After the first set], I saw that everyone was just putting their heart out and I asked myself if I was doing the same thing, and clearly I wasn’t,” Tchan said. “I went into the second set…and just promised myself that I would battle like the rest of my teammates.”

Tchan used the momentum from winning the middle set to battle back and win the third, 10-6.

Felton was the only other Crimson member to snatch a set from his opponent, with four of the six players losing in straights sets.

Felton won the first set in a tie-break, but then lost the next two sets, 6-3 and 6-4.

Omodele-Lucien dropped a tight matchup to Bandres, 7-6, 6-3. At the No. 1 position, Pearlman lost his second straight match, 7-5, 6-2. Nguyen and MacMaster also lost their matches in straights.

—Staff writer Steven T. A. Roach can be reached at sroach@fas.harvard.edu.