ITHACA, N.Y. – The last undefeated Division I women's tennis team was finally toppled on Saturday when No. 64 Cornell was shut out by No. 62 Columbia, 7-0, at Reis Tennis Center in the teams' Ivy League opener. While the Lions swept the match, three of the singles matches went to three sets and two others went to a first-set tiebreaker.
 
Columbia (8-4) secured the doubles point with victories at the first and third spots. The No. 2 doubles match, featuring the Big Red pair of senior Christine Ordway and freshman Dena Tanenbaum, was tied at 6 when play was halted.
 
After the Lions took a 2-0 lead on a 6-0, 6-0 victory at No. 6 singles, the remaining matches were all tightly contested. Junior Ryann Young took Bianca Sanon to a tiebreaker in the first set and took four games in the second set, but Sanon held on to make the score 3-0. Ordway rallied from a 7-5 loss in the first set to Kanika Vaidya at No. 2 with a 6-4 edge in the second set, but the Lions' freshman took the third set to clinch the match.
 
Cornell (11-1), which is the final Division I team to lose a dual match after Buffalo's 10-match winning streak was halted Friday by Miami (Ohio), resumes Ivy League play next weekend with matches against Dartmouth and Harvard.
 
No. 62 COLUMBIA 7, No. 64 CORNELL 0
at Reis Tennis Center; Ithaca, N.Y.
Singles
1. No. 69 Nicole Bartnik (Col) def. Sarah O'Neil, 7-5, 6-7, (10-2)
2. Kanika Vaidya (Col) def. Christine Ordway, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2
3. Bianca Sanon (Col) def. Ryann Young, 7-6, 6-4
4. Crystal Leung (Col) def. Dena Tanenbaum, 7-6, 7-5
5. Ioana Alecsiu (Col) def. Laila Judeh, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
6. Tiana Takenaga (Col) def. Lauren Frazier, 6-0, 6-0
Doubles
1. No. 38 Sanon/Vaidya (Col) def. Frazier/O'Neil, 8-2
2. Ordway/Tanenbaum (Cor) vs. Bartnik/Leung, 6-6 (DNF)
3. Alecsiu/Takenaga (Col) def. Christy Kung/Young, 9-7
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3), Singles (6,3,2,4,1,5)
Records: Columbia 8-4, Cornell 11-1.