The men's tennis team is seeking an end to its six-match losing streak when it makes its first Ivy League trip of the season this weekend with visits to Brown on Saturday and Yale on Sunday. Both matches are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
 
Cornell (7-14, 0-3 Ivy) is coming off its fifth 4-3 loss of the season, the most recent occasion being a home loss to 58th-ranked Dartmouth on Sunday at Reis Tennis Center. It was also the Big Red's 10th match of the season against a team that was ranked in the top 75 at the time by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. All have resulted in losses.
 
While the team is slightly below .500 in doubles play this season, the team of freshman Sam Fleck and Jason Luu has been a force. The tandem is 9-3 in matches this season, primarily from the No. 2 spot, but they were moved up to No. 1 last weekend and delivered an 8-5 victory over 44th-ranked Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster of Harvard. Freshman Quoc-Daniel Nguyen remains the Big Red's hottest player in singles, winning five of his last seven matches from the lower portion of the lineup.
 
Brown leads the all-time series against Cornell, 31-20, but the Big Red has won the last three meetings between the teams in Ivy League play. The Bears, tabbed 60th in the most recent Intercollegiate Tennis Association's rankings, answered back with a 4-3 victory over Cornell in the semifinals of the ECAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 18. The Big Red's points in that match came from straight-set singles victories from sophomore Venkat Iyer (No. 1), Fleck (No. 2) and Nguyen (No. 4). Brown (14-5, 0-2 Ivy) enters this weekend on the heels of a pair of 4-3 losses last weekend at Princeton and Penn. The losses halted a six-match winning streak. The Bears' doubles team of Soufian Azargui and Brandon Burke is ranked 88th in the country.
 
Yale (12-7, 1-1) split its opening league matches last weekend, earning a 5-2 victory at Penn before suffering a 4-3 loss to Princeton. Marc Powers is the Bulldogs' top option at No. 1 singles, and he also pairs with Daniel Hoffman to represent the 80th-ranked doubles team in the country. Hoffman and Power are 13-3 on the season and just had a five-match winning streak stopped on Saturday against Princeton with a loss to another nationally ranked pair.
 
The Big Red trails its all-time series with the Bulldogs, 11-56-2, but Cornell won last year's meeting and two of the last three. In turn, Yale hasn't lost at home to Cornell since 2002. Neither team has swept a match against the other since 1997.