Word: brightfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pulled rib muscle impaired Lundy's game in close losses to league standouts Eric Fromm (Columbia) and Murray Robinson (Penn). But Lundy came back against nationally-ranked Princeton, knocking off their co-captain, Tom Brightfield, with a stunning 5-4 tiebreaker victory in the third...
Harvard's only triumphs came at sixth singles, where freshman Bob Horne remained unbeaten on the year with a straight-set win, and first singles, where senior captain Todd Lundy--playing the last major match of his stellar career--pulled his classic match with Tiger co-captain Tom Brightfield out of the fire when he won on the final point of a third-set tiebreaker...
...then there was Lundy. Alone on the floor with Princeton's Brightfield, the Crimson captain needed a victory to keep Harvard's chances alive, at least mathematically. Serving erratically but playing his incredibly solid game throughour, Lundy brought home the bacon after laboring back and forth with Brightfield for more than two hours...
Lundy served to Brightfield's backhand, then drove the Tiger's return deep to the ad-court and on the tape. Brightfield gamely rifled a backhand return, but Mr. Lundy stroked a crisp forehand volley cross-court for the winner...
Oficially, the Tigers iced the win at number two, where Brightfield and Zimmerman came back from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to defeat Shaw and a by-then suffering Walker, 4-and-5. At third doubles, Pompan and Greg Kirsch choked away a first-set tiebreaker, 5-3, and went on to lose to Gross and Meister...