ITHACA, N.Y. – The Big Red women's tennis team was edged by Penn, 4-3, this afternoon at the Reis Tennis Center in Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell, which slips to 9-10 overall (1-5 Ivy), closes out its season on Sunday afternoon when it faces No. 50 Princeton (11-9, 4-2 Ivy), at the Lenz Tennis Center in Princeton, N.J., on April 17 at 11:00 a.m.

Cornell earned the doubles point in relatively easy fashion, with the tandems of Ordway/Young and Chis/Dumitrescu each winning by a score of 8-1, but Penn (7-13, 1-5 Ivy) responded by winning the first two singles matches at the No. 1 and No. 3 sports to go up, 2-1.

The Big Red temporarily reclaimed the lead, 3-2, with victories by No. 6 Sarah O'Neil and No. 5 Ruxandra Dumitrescu and the Quakers knotted the match at 3-3 with a three-set win at No. 4 by Stephanie Do.

The evening came down to the No. 2 singles, where Ryann Young won the first set but fell in the second in a tie-break, 7-6 (3), which sent the contest into a decisive third-set, where she came up just short.


Penn def. Cornell; 4-3
Doubles
1. Hsu/Ely (UP) def. Comolli/Comolli (COR); 8-7 (6)
2. Ordway/Young (COR) def. Yapp-Shing/Rodin (UP); 8-1
3. Chis/Dumitrescu (COR) def. Do/Whitfield (UP); 8-1

Singles
1. No. 26 Hsu (UP) def. Orday (COR); 6-1, 6-0
2. Ely (UP) def. Young (COR); 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
3. Yapp-Shing (UP) def. Chis (COR); 6-3, 6-3
4. Do (UP) def. K. Comolli (COR); 4-6, 6-2, 6-0
5. Dumitrescu (COR) def. Whitfield (UP); 7-5, 6-2
6. O'Neil (COR) def. DePaoli (UP); 6-2, 6-2

Order of Finish
Doubles: 2, 3, 1
Singles: 1, 3, 6, 5, 4, 2