ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's tennis team hits the road for the first time during the Ivy League season this weekend, visiting Brown at 1 p.m. Saturday and Yale at 1 p.m. Sunday.
 
Cornell (7-10, 1-2) moved up two spots to 54th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's national rankings after splitting its matches last weekend at Reis Tennis Center against teams ranked above it. The Big Red toppled #50 Harvard, 4-1, on Saturday before suffering a 4-2 loss on Sunday against #38 Dartmouth. Junior Colin Sinclair won both of his No. 2 singles matches in straight sets, pushing his personal unbeaten streak to five. He also teamed with freshman David Volfson to win both No. 1 doubles matches on the weekend, and Volfson knocked off a nationally ranked Dovydas Sakinis, of Dartmouth, in Sunday's No. 1 singles match. Sinclair and senior Stefan Vinti are now tied for the team lead with nine singles victories.
 
Brown (8-14, 0-2) has lost four straight, including its league openers last weekend to Princeton (4-1) and Penn (4-3). Junior Greg Garcia holds down the No. 1 singles position, having split his matches last weekend. Sophomore Peter Tarwid is 11-5 in dual matches and has most recently seen the most action at No. 2.
 
Brown leads the all-time series against Cornell, 32-25, but the Big Red has won five consecutive matches over the last four seasons. The Big Red swept last season's Ivy League meeting at Reis Tennis Center, marking the squad's first 7-0 win in league play in nine years. Sinclair and junior Chris Vrabel won their respective singles matches in straight sets, while senior Stefan Vinti and junior Bernardo Casares Rosa prevailed in a super tiebreak.
 
Yale (12-8, 0-2) also lost matches at Penn and Princeton last weekend with one win in its last five matches, but the Bulldogs rattled off seven straight victories over late February and the first half of March. Freshman Dennis Wang is 11-6 in dual matches, settling into the No. 5 position in recent weeks. Sophomore Fedor Andrienko won 10 of his first 11 dual matches, but has dropped his last four matches as he's moved up to the No. 2 entry. Senior Martin Svenning is 10-4 and typically seen at No. 4. A first-team All-Ivy selection last year, junior Tyler Lu has not competed in dual matches this season after being nationally ranked in the fall.
 
The Big Red trails its all-time series with the Bulldogs, 14-57-2, but Cornell has won five of the last seven meetings. That includes a 5-2 Cornell victory in last year's Ivy League meeting at Reis, which included straight-set singles victories from Casares Rosa and Vrabel.