MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The men's tennis team dropped a 4-1 decision to No. 47 Texas Tech in the semifinals of the Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic on Saturday. Sophomore Jason Luu won his match at No. 5 singles for the Big Red, which will play top-seeded Notre Dame in Sunday's third-place match at 11 a.m. CDT.
 
Cornell (10-3), which entered the tournament ranked 29th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, had its nine-match streak of winning the doubles point come to an end Saturday. The Aggies won the Nos. 1 and 2 doubles matches to secure the day's first point.
 
Luu won his match against Texas Tech's Francisco Zambon, 6-4, 6-1, to get the Big Red on the board and improve his record to 10-1 in singles matches during the dual season. But the Aggies won singles matches at the top three spots to cement its place Sunday's championship match.
 
No. 47 TEXAS TECH 4, No. 29 CORNELL 1
Saturday's Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic semifinal; at Montgomery, Ala.
Singles
1. Vitor Manzini (T) def. Venkat Iyer, 6-2, 6-2
2. Gabriel Dias (T) def. Sam Fleck, 6-1, 6-3
3. Felipe Soares (T) def. Alex Sidney, 6-2, 6-3
4. Quoc-Daniel Nguyen (C) vs. Raphael Pfister, DNF
5. Jason Luu (C) def. Francisco Zambon, 6-4, 6-1
6. Kyle Berman (C) vs. Hugo Dojas, DNF
Doubles
1. Manzini/Dias (T) def. Iyer/Sidney, 8-4
2. Jeff Bryan/Soares (T) def. Luu/Nguyen, 8-4
3. Berman/Fleck (C) vs. Gabriel Wanderley/Zambon, DNF