The men's tennis team will take to the road in search of its first Ivy League victory of the season, taking on Yale at 1 p.m. Saturday and Brown at 1 p.m. Sunday.
 
Cornell (10-7, 0-3), ranked 52nd in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, has started the Ivy season with three home matches. Columbia handed the Big Red a 7-0 setback on March 29, then Dartmouth (4-2) and Harvard (5-2) pulled out victories last weekend at Reis Tennis Center. Junior Sam Fleck won both of his matches at No. 1 singles position, including a decision against Harvard's Denis Nguyen, who was ranked 31st at the time. Jason Luu accounted for the other Big Red point against Harvard with a dominating two-set victory at No. 6 singles. Luu also teamed with junior Quoc-Daniel Nguyen to defeat 20th-ranked Cameron Ghorbani and Brendan Tannenbaum, of Dartmouth, at the No. 2 position and help the Big Red lock up the doubles point against the Big Green. Luu and Nguyen are now ranked 49th by the ITA in doubles.
 
Yale (12-5, 1-1) opened league play last Saturday with a 6-1 loss at Princeton before rebounding with a 4-2 defeat of Penn the following day. Freshman Tyler Lu is 14-3 in singles play, and sophomore Martin Svenning and junior Daniel Faierman typically round out the top of the team's singles lineup. Lu was ranked 98th in the country last week, but fell out of the ITA rankings this week after last Saturday's loss to Princeton's Zack McCourt.
 
The Big Red trails its all-time series with the Bulldogs, 12-57-2, but Cornell won the last meeting at Yale and three of the last five. The Bulldogs eked out a narrow 4-3 decision in Ivy League play last season, with Fleck (No. 2 singles), Luu (No. 5) and the doubles point accounting for the Big Red scoring. Neither team has swept a match against the other since 1997.
 
Brown is 10-8 overall and 0-2 in Ivy play heading into Saturday's match with league-leading Columbia. The Bears are on a three-match losing streak, including a 4-2 loss to Penn last Saturday and a 4-3 setback at Princeton the following day. Lucas Da Silveira won a pair of No. 6 singles matches on the weekend. Justin To typically competes at the No. 1 singles position and teams with Da Silveria (6) at No. 1 doubles.
 
Brown leads the all-time series against Cornell, 32-23, but the Big Red has won three consecutive matches over the last two seasons. The teams met in the first round of the ECAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 15, with the Big Red securing a 4-2 victory behind singles victories from sophomore Stefan Vinti (No. 1), freshman Bernardo Casares Rosa (No. 2), Fleck (No. 3) and Nguyen (No. 6). Cornell won the last Ivy League match, 5-2, on April 14, 2013.