The women's tennis team will attempt to match its best Ivy League win total in a season since 1996 this weekend when it travels to New England for matches at Yale at noon Saturday and Brown at noon Sunday.
 
Cornell (12-2, 1-2 Ivy) split its home matches with Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend at Reis Tennis Center in Ithaca, N.Y. After defeating the Big Green, 5-2 on Friday, the Big Red stumbled on Saturday in a 6-1 loss to the Crimson. The defeat knocked the Big Red out of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Top 75 rankings for the first time in three weeks. All six competitors — seniors Sarah O'Neil and Christine Ordway, junior Ryann Young, sophomore Nina Turudic, and freshmen Laila Judeh and Dena Tanenbaum — had their hand in one singles victory or one doubles victory over the weekend. With two wins this weekend, Cornell would have three wins in conference for the third time since it went a program-record 5-2 in 1996.
 
Defending league champion Yale (13-2, 2-0 Ivy), ranked 37th, is riding a four-match winning streak. After defeating Ohio State on March 17 in its final match at the Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic, the Bulldogs returned home for a 6-1 win over Rutgers on March 30, then followed that up with a pair of 5-2 victories at Princeton and Penn last weekend to open league play. Elizabeth Epstein, ranked 64th nationally, won both her matches last weekend at the No. 1 singles position. She also competes with Annie Sullivan at the top doubles spot. Blair Seideman
 
Yale leads the all-time series with Cornell, 28-3, and has won the last 15 meetings. The Big Red's last victory came on April 12, 1997. That win actually gave Cornell three straight wins against the Bulldogs — accounting for all of its victories in the series.
 
Brown (6-9, 0-2 Ivy) has dropped five of its last seven matches, including its league debut last weekend at Penn (4-3) and Princeton (6-1). Sophomore Nikita Uberoi won both of her matches from the No. 4 singles position last weekend, and freshmen Hannah Camhi (No. 2) and Olivia Hsu (No. 6) also had wins against Penn. Senior Misia Krasowski is a two-time member of the All-Ivy League First Team.
 
The Big Red's lone victory in Ivy League play last season came against Brown, which was ranked 48th at the time. O'Neil won both singles and doubles matches for the Big Red, and Ordway cruised to a straight-sets victory at the No. 2 singles position in a 4-3 victory. It was just the latest in a long line of close matches between the teams, as just one of the last 12 meetings between the squads has featured a score other than 4-3 or 5-2. The Bears hold a 23-8 lead in the series.