ITHACA, N.Y. — Fresh off its first Ivy League victory of the season, the men's tennis team will seek to keep the momentum going and finish the campaign strong this weekend with matches against Penn and Princeton. The match against the Quakers at 2 p.m. Friday will be the Big Red's final match at Reis Tennis Center. Princeton then hosts Cornell at 2 p.m. Sunday.
 
Cornell (8-15, 1-4 Ivy) is coming off a pair of 4-3 matches with opposite outcomes last weekend. Sixtieth-ranked Brown escaped with a home victory on April 14 before the Big Red rallied to defeat Yale by the same margin the following day in New Haven, Conn. Freshmen Sam Fleck and Quoc-Daniel Nguyen won both of their singles matches to extend personal winning streaks to three. Nguyen has a team-high 12 victories from the lower portion of the order, one ahead of classmate Alex Sidney and two ahead of No. 1 spot fixture Venkat Iyer. Fleck and fellow freshman Jason Luu also comprise the Big Red's top doubles tandem with a 9-5 record.
 
Penn (10-8, 2-3) is coached by David Geatz, who served as the Big Red's head coach from 2009-10. Both of the Quakers' league victories this season have come against ranked opponents — Brown and Dartmouth. Sophomore Ivan Turudic — whose younger sister, Nina, is a member of the Big Red women's tennis team — is the team's primary No. 1 singles player with a 3-9 record, but he hasn't competed in Penn's last three matches. Nikola Kocovic (9-15) has stepped into the top spot, winning three of four tilts there on the season. Phil Law (12-11) and Jeremy Court (15-3) are candidates to fill out the top of the lineup.
 
The Quakers lead the all-time series, 44-35-1, dating back to the teams' first meeting in 1906. But Cornell has won the last four Ivy League meetings and 12 of the last 14 dating back to 1997. Princeton (12-10, 3-2) holds a dominating 86-8-1 record against Cornell since the squads first met in 1906, but the Big Red has won the last five meetings.
 
The Tigers are coming off a disappointing two-loss weekend to Harvard and Dartmouth to fall slightly behind the Crimson for the league lead. Princeton's Matija Pecotic has a sterling 17-2 record from the No. 1 spot and is ranked 121st in singles by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Matt Spindler (7-11) and Augie Bloom (4-5) typically round out the top three spots, and Dan Richardson is 7-1 in his matches from the No. 4 slot. Princeton also brandishes one of the league's best doubles teams in Spindler and Matt Siow, who hold the No. 65 rankings. The doubles team of Pecotic and Bloom has won four straight matches from the No. 2 spot.