HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Brandon Chiu '04 sets up - and smashes - a serve to Anthony Pu and Jimmy Fairbanks of Penn on April 16 at the Beren Tennis Center, while Chiu's partner, junior Jonathan Chu, waits for the return. The Crimson took the match, 8-4, as Harvard rolled to a 7-0 victory. (Staff photos Lindsay Pierce/Harvard News Office)

Crimson ace Quakers, 7-0

Harvard stays perfect in Ivies with 12th-straight win

Against the Quakers, coach Dave Fish's Crimson captured the doubles point with two straight wins at first and second before sweeping singles play. Only one match in singles action, the final showdown between Harvard's Brandon Chiu '06 and Penn's Jimmy Fairbanks, was forced to three sets.

To open doubles play, junior Jonathan Chu and Brandon Chiu registered an 8-4 win against Anthony Pu and Fairbanks before Harvard senior-tandem Mark Riddell and David Lingman (ranked 36th in the country with a 26-8 individual record) defeated their Quaker competition, 8-3, at No. 2 to clinch the point. Penn captured its sole match of the afternoon at third doubles when Quakers Craig Rubin and Todd Lecher downed the new senior-freshman duo of George Turner and Gideon Valkin, 8-6.

In singles action, Jonathan Chu set the tone for Harvard with a 6-0, 6-3 win in the top match over Penn's David Lynn. Lingman, Riddell, Turner, and junior Martin Wetzel followed suit with straight-set victories, before Fairbanks of Penn provided some resistance in the first set of the final match, downing Brandon Chiu, 6-2. Chiu responded with a pair of 6-3 victories in the second and third sets to ensure the sweep.