The outcome of the dual came down to MacMaster’s match.

The match was close, and MacMaster fought back from the brink of defeat, but he eventually lost the match, 7-5, 7-5.

NO. 65 HARVARD 5, YALE 2

After dropping the doubles point to Princeton last weekend that resulted in a 4-3 loss, Harvard came out strong on Friday in the tandem matches.

Two of the Crimson duos picked up key wins to score Harvard’s first point of the afternoon.

Felton and Nguyen earned the first win, 8-3, which would be the duo’s first of two match wins this weekend.

Pearlman and Tchan followed with another victory against, Erik Blumenkranz and Joel Samaha, 8-5 to secure the first point for the Crimson.

The same four players who came out victorious in their doubles matches also managed to pull out wins in their respective singles matches.

All four players managed to pull through in straights.

Playing at the No. 1 spot, Pearlman cruised through the first set, 6-1, but had to battle in the second set. He eventually prevailed to earn a point for Harvard, 6-1, 7-5.

Felton won in two sets that both went to tiebreakers, 7-6, 7-6. The win gave Felton his 21st match victory of the season.

Tchan and Nguyen, the two other Crimson winners, also pulled out victories in impressive fashion. Tchan dropped just five games on his way to a 6-3, 6-2 win against Jordan Abergel.

Nguyen also dominated his opponent for a 6-3, 6-4 win.

MacMaster, one of the only two Harvard players to lose a match on the day, ended his seven-match winning streak with a 7-6, 6-3 loss to Daniel Hoffman.

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