Men's bracket (PDF)
Women's bracket (PDF)
The men's and women's tennis teams will defend their titles at the ECAC Indoor Championships this weekend at New Haven, Conn. and Hanover, N.H. Both teams are guaranteed three matches at the event, which runs from Friday through Sunday.
The 50th-ranked Big Red men's team holds the No. 2 seed in the ECAC tournament hosted by Dartmouth. Cornell (4-3) has won all four of its home matches this season, including a doubleheader last Sunday against St. John's and Fordham. All three of the Big Red's losses have come against teams ranked in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Top 75.
Cornell will face seventh-seeded Columbia at 11:30 a.m. Friday in a first-round match. A win would put the Big Red into a semifinal at 3 p.m. Saturday against the winner of Friday's first-round match between third-seeded St. John's and sixth-seeded Brown. If Cornell loses Friday, it would face the loser of the St. Johns/Brown match at 8 a.m. Saturday. The Big Red went 7-3 in singles matches against Columbia in fall tournaments, also losing two doubles matches.
The other side of the men's bracket features top-seeded and 60th-ranked Harvard, fourth-seeded and 70th-ranked Princeton, fifth-seeded host Dartmouth and eighth-seeded Yale.
Freshman
Alex Sidney has been the most the Big Red's most successful player at singles, posting a 5-1 record at the Nos. 4 and 5 positions so far. The doubles team of freshmen
Sam Fleck and
Jason Luu is 6-1 on the season, playing exclusively at the No. 2 spot so far.
The women's ECAC Indoor Championship, hosted by Yale, features six Ivy League teams – five of which are ranked. Sixth-seeded Cornell (4-0) will clash with one of those in the first round at 8 a.m. Friday in the tournament opener against 51th-ranked and third-seeded Princeton. The winner will play in a semifinal at 3 p.m. Saturday against the winner of Friday's first-round match between 43th-ranked and second-seeded Brown and seventh-seeded Columbia. If Cornell loses Friday, it would face the loser of the Brown/Columbia match at 8 a.m. Saturday. The Big Red lost two singles match and one doubles match in fall tournaments.
The other side of the women's bracket features top-seeded and 25th-ranked host Yale, fourth-seeded and 55th-ranked Boston College, fifth-seeded and 58th-ranked Dartmouth and eighth-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson.
Sophomore
Ryann Young, and freshmen
Gabby Sullivan and
Sara Perelman are each 4-0 on the season in singles play, while the Big Red is perfect in its 12 doubles matches to date.