ITHACA, N.Y. — With six weeks having gone by since its last home match, the women's tennis team returns to Reis Tennis Center this weekend to make its home debut in Ivy League play against Brown on Saturday and Yale on Sunday. Both matches against the nationally ranked squads are slated to start at noon.
 
Cornell (8-7, 0-3 Ivy) will be looking to snap a seven-match losing streak in league play against two of the teams at the top of the tables. Sophomore Ryann Young is 12-2 in singles play, primarily from the No. 3 position, while freshmen Gabby Sullivan (9-5), Sara Perelman (6-4) and Rosemary Li (4-0) all have winning records from the lower part of the order. The Big Red is 28-15 in doubles play and has taken 10 of the available 15 points.
 
Yale (14-3, 2-0) is the defending Ivy League co-champion, having advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament last year. While the Big Red and Bulldogs haven't met yet this season in team play, Cornell won a pair of doubles matches against Yale representatives in October at the USTA BJK NTC Women's College Invitational. The winning teams were Sullivan and classmate Lauren Frazier, and juniors Sarah O'Neil and Christine Ordway. The Bulldogs are 28th in the most recent Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings and have four ranked doubles combinations — Hanna Yu and Victoria Brook (40th), Brook and Amber Li (75th), Elizabeth Epstein and Annie Sullivan (86th), and Li and Sullivan (87th).
 
Yale leads the all-time series with Cornell, 27-3, and has won the last 14 meetings. The Big Red's last victory came on April 12, 1997. That win actually gave Cornell three straight wins — accounting for all of its victories in the series.
 
Brown (16-4, 2-0) is also among the three remaining teams with undefeated marks in Ivy play. The Bears have won their last three matches and nine of their last 10 to jump to 48th in the latest ITA rankings. Brown has won the last three matches against the Big Red, though just one of the last 11 meetings between the squads has featured a score other than 4-3 or 5-2. Cornell has won three of its last four clashes with Brown at Reis. The Bears hold a 23-7 lead in the series.