The Crimson showed that its recent dominance over the Ancient Eight extended to road matches. Harvard replicated its 5-2 victory over Princeton from last season in extending its win streak to ten matches.
The 55th-ranked doubles team of MacMaster and Denis Nguyen took down the Tigers’ 46th-ranked pair, 9-7, and Lam and Steinroeder scored an 8-5 victory to give the Crimson the doubles point for the tenth straight match.
In singles, MacMaster lost, 6-2, 6-1, on the sixth court as the Tigers tied the match at 1-1, but the rest of the team quickly made up for his loss. Steinroeder won, 6-4, 6-1, at No. 3, Chaudhuri defeated Princeton’s Zack McCourt, 6-3,6-4, at No. 2, and Hu won, 7-5, 7-5, on the fifth court to give Harvard its fourth point and lock up the victory.
In the rest of the action, Andy Nguyen earned a 6-4, 6-4 win, and Denis Nguyen lost to the Tigers’ Matija Pecotic, the nation’s No. 8 ranked singles player by a score of 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. Pecotic extended his singles winning streak to 19 matches, but Nguyen became the first player since April 2011 to take a set from Pecotic in an Ivy match.
While the team is happy with its performance in Ancient Eight play so far, it cannot afford to look far ahead.
“We’re confident in our ability, but also wary,” Fish said. “We won 4-3 against Penn, and it does not take much to make us vulnerable, especially if we don’t win in the last two singles spots. Every team wants to be a spoiler and go after us. It’ll be a fight until the end.”
—Staff writer Justin C. Wong can be reached at justinwong@college.harvard.edu.