ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's tennis team will play its first home matches in nearly five weeks when it plays host to Yale and Brown this weekend at Reis Tennis Center in a pair of Ivy League matches. The Big Red will take on the Bulldogs at 2 p.m. Saturday, then battles with the Bears at 2 p.m. Sunday.
 
Cornell (12-6, 1-2 Ivy) is ranked 51st in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association after splitting its road matches last weekend. The Big Red won four singles matches Saturday to defeat Dartmouth, 5-2, but fell the following day to No. 19 Harvard, 6-1. Sophomore Jason Luu won both of his singles matches on the weekend, also teaming with classmate Quoc-Daniel Nguyen to win the No. 2 doubles match against Dartmouth. Luu is now 14-2 on the season in singles, and the doubles team of sophomores Sam Fleck and Kyle Berman are 11-1.
 
Yale (15-4, 1-1 Ivy) is ranked 65th by the ITA, having dropped just one of its last six matches. A 5-2 loss to Princeton last Saturday halted a four-match winning streak, but the Bulldogs rebounded for a 7-0 sweep of Penn on Sunday. The win over the Quakers was Yale's eighth shutout of the season. The No. 1 doubles team of seniors Marc Powers and Daniel Hoffman was recently knocked out of the national rankings. The duo also typically fills out the top of the Bulldogs' singles lineup, with senior John Huang a regular competitor from the No. 1 spot.
 
The Big Red trails its all-time series with the Bulldogs, 12-56-2, but Cornell won last year's meeting and three of the last four. Yale won the doubles point April 15, 2012 in the teams' last meeting, but Cornell got singles victories from Fleck (No. 2), Luu (No. 4), Alex Sidney (No. 5) and Nguyen (No. 6) to help them complete the comeback and win its first Ivy contest of the year. Neither team has swept a match against the other since 1997.
 
Like Yale, Brown (12-7, 1-1 Ivy) also split its matches in its Ivy League debut last weekend. The Bears defeated Penn, 5-2, before dropping a 4-3 nailbiter with Princeton on Sunday. Michael Riechmann primarily competes at the No. 1 position after spending much of last season in the middle of the order.
 
Brown leads the all-time series against Cornell, 32-21, but the Big Red won an ECAC Indoor Championship quarterfinal match against the Bears earlier this season. After winning the doubles point, the Big Red locked up the match with straight-set victories from junior Venkat Iyer (No. 1), Fleck (No. 2) and Nguyen (No. 4), then went on to win the prestigious regional tournament for the second time in the last three years.