ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's tennis team will take to the road for the last time this season when it visits Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend in a pair of Ivy League matches. The Big Red starts off against the Big Green at 1 p.m. Saturday, then treks to the Boston metropolitan area for a 1 p.m. Sunday match against the Crimson.
 
Cornell (6-10, 0-3 Ivy League) is coming off a close 4-3 loss to Penn on Sunday in Philadelphia. Both of the team's seniors – Priyanka Shah (No. 1) and Madison Stevens (No. 4) – won singles matches, as did sophomore Ananya Dua (No. 2). With the singles matches split, that left the balance of the match on doubles play. Dua and Shah teamed up to win at the No. 1 spot, but the Quakers won the other two tilts. Cornell's weekend opened with a 7-0 loss to Princeton.
 
Dartmouth (8-10, 1-2) and Cornell were two of the three teams that shared the Ivy League title in 2017. The Big Green is coming off a split of its matches last weekend, topping Yale on Friday, 6-1, before being defeated by the same score two days later at Brown. Kristina Mathis is ranked 115th in the nation in singles by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, posting a 8-7 record from the No. 1 position. In general, the Big Green's lineup is balanced in records from the top to the bottom of the order in both singles and doubles.
 
The Big Red is 7-29 all-time against the Big Green, though five of the last seven Ivy League matches have ended in a 4-3 score. The teams have already met once this year, with Dartmouth securing a 4-1 victory in the semifinals of the ECAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 10. Cornell's last victory against the Big Green came in 2013 at Reis Tennis Center.
 
Harvard (11-8, 3-0) enters the weekend on a five-match winning streak, tied with Princeton for the Ivy League lead after victories of 5-2 over Brown and 6-1 over Yale. Erica Oosterhout is ranked 107th in the country in singles by the ITA with a 9-3 record from the No. 1 position. She typically competes at No. 2 in doubles with a 7-3 record alongside Natasha Gonzalez, who also leads the team in singles victories with an 11-6 mark. Jenna Friedel is 9-2 in singles, typically at No. 2, and has a six-match winning streak.
 
Harvard holds a 37-5 lead in the all-time series, but Cornell has won three of the last four meetings between the programs. When the teams met in Ivy play last year at Harvard, the Big Red rallied for a 4-3 upset of the nationally-ranked Crimson. Shah capped the rally with the clinching victory for Cornell.