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Senior Mark Riddell—who lost his doubles match with partner Brandon Chiu in disappointing 8-6 fashion—hung on for a 6-2, 7-6 (4) victory to complete the singles sweep. Riddell had run away with the first set and held a 4-2 advantage in the second but needed a tiebreak for the victory...
...that game to matter, however, Penn must sweep Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend, while Princeton splits those two contests. If the Quakers go on to beat the Tigers, the two teams—three if Brown beats both Columbia and Cornell this weekend—would be forced into a playoff situation to decide the eventual champion...
...could sweep this weekend, it would be a tremendous statement,” Norman said. “We’ve been coming together as a team all season and now we want to send a message to the Ivy League...
...that’s where you come in, Brown and Penn fans. Stop resigning yourself to second place and start focusing on what you can do to prevent the Tigers from coming away with a sweep this weekend. Scrap the plans to head to Columbia, Dartmouth or the South Pacific and travel to Boston instead. Help make Lavietes an inhospitable environment for the Ivy leader. Help turn Princeton’s victory lap down the Champs-Elysees into a treacherous climb through the Pyrenees...
...more important than any one player will be the Crimson’s ability to play consistently over the course of two (or three) nights. Harvard did not sweep a regular-season weekend this season—the first time that has happened since 1996-1997—and if it can’t win two of its next three games, the coming-out party will end only a few days after it started...