CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sophomore Jason Luu won his fourth consecutive singles match on Sunday, but that would be the only bright spot for the men's tennis team in a 6-1 loss to Ivy League favorite Harvard.
 
Cornell (12-6, 1-2 Ivy League), ranked 48th in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, dropped the first two doubles matches to be played to completion to allow Harvard to take a 1-0 lead. The No. 3 tilt between Cornell sophomores Kyle Berman and Sam Fleck and Harvard's Alex Steinroeder and Kelvin Lam did not finish.
 
Fleck then took his No. 2 singles match to a third-set tiebreaker, and sophomore Alex Sidney also extended his No. 3 singles match to a second-set tiebreaker. But Luu came through at the No. 5 spot, topping Nicky Hu in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.
 
After three consecutive Ivy League matches on the road, the Big Red will return home for the first time in more than a month when its plays host to Ancient Eight rivals Yale and Brown next weekend. The Big Red will take on the Bulldogs at 2 p.m. Saturday, then it will oppose Brown at 2 p.m. Sunday.
 
No. 18 HARVARD 6, No. 48 CORNELL 1
Sunday; at Beren Tennis Center; Cambridge, Mass.
Singles
1. Denis Nguyen (H) def. Venkat Iyer (C), 6-2, 6-2
2. Shaun Chaudhuri (H) def. Sam Fleck (C), 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
3. Alex Steinroeder (H) def. Alex Sidney (C), 6-3, 7-6 (4)
4. Andy Nguyen (H) def. Quoc-Daniel Nguyen (C), 6-0, 6-1
5. Jason Luu (C) def. Nicky Hu (H), 6-4, 6-4
6. Casey MacMaster (H) def. Kyle Berman, 6-3, 6-3
Doubles
1. No. 65 D. Nguyen/MacMaster (H) def. Iyer/Sidney (C), 8-3
2. A. Nguyen/N. Hu (H) def. Luu/Q.Nguyen (C), 8-4
3. Steinroeder/Kelvin Lam (H) vs. Fleck/Berman (C), DNF
Records: Harvard 14-4, 2-0 Ivy; Cornell 12-6, 1-2 Ivy.