ITHACA, N.Y. – The No. 46 Big Red men's tennis team pulled out its fifth-straight 4-3 victory this afternoon, defeating Yale at the Reis Tennis Center to improve to 21-4 on the year and 4-0 in the Ivy League. The win also extends Cornell's home winning streak to 17 matches. With the loss, the Bulldogs slipped to 9-10 on the season (1-3 Ivy).

The Big Red swept the all three doubles matches to take the early 1-0 lead and then earned three straight-set wins at the bottom of the order to capture the victory.

In its next weekend of action, Cornell will travel to face Penn on Friday, April 15 at 2:00 p.m., before returning home for its match against Ithaca College at the Reis Tennis Center on Sunday, April 17 at 9:00 a.m, before taking on Princeton in a critical leaue match at 1 p.m.

No. 46 Cornell def. Yale; 4-3
Doubles
1. Bernstein/Jaklitsch (COR) def. Powers/Hoffman (YALE); 8-4
2. Feldman/Gauthier (COR) def. Blumenkarnz/Samaha (YALE); 8-2
3. Klis/McElwain (COR) def. Bennett/Huang (YALE); 7-6 (7-0)

Singles
1. Huang (YALE) def. Gauthier (COR); 6-2, 6-7 (7-1), 6-4
2. Powers (YALE) def. Jaklitsch (COR); 7-5, 6-1
3. Hoffman (YALE) def. Klis (COR); 7-5, 6-4
4. Feldman (COR) def. Blumenkranz (YALE); 7-5, 6-4
5. Bernstein (COR) def. Samaha (YALE); 6-1, 6-4
6. Iyer (COR) def. Abergel (YALE); 6-2, 6-1