ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's tennis team will look to build the momentum of a big win over rival Harvard on Sunday when it resumes Ivy League play this weekend with trips to Yale at 1 p.m. Saturday and Brown at 1 p.m. Sunday. The match against the Bears is scheduled to be broadcast on Ivy League Network.
 
Cornell (8-10, 1-3 Ivy League) is coming off a thrilling 4-3 victory over the Crimson at Reis Tennis Center, clinched by sophomore Joseph McAllister's three-set victory at No. 6 singles. The Big Red had stormed out to an early lead after sophomore Lev Kazakov teamed with freshman Alafia Ayeni to clinch the doubles point with a tiebreaker win at No. 1, then wrapped up a tidy 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 3 singles. As a result, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association has vaulted the Big Red back into the national rankings at No. 47. 
 
Junior Jake Hansen pushed Cornell's lead to 3-0 with his seventh consecutive singles victory at Line 5 before 29th-ranked Harvard's rally put the balance of the match on McAllister. Hansen and McAllister are now a combined 7-0 at singles in Ivy League play.
 
Yale (10-10, 0-4) continues to look for its first league victory, despite taking then-unbeaten Harvard to the brink two weeks ago. The Bulldogs lost to Princeton, 4-0, on Saturday before a 5-2 setback against Penn on Sunday. The Yale points came from winning the bottom two doubles matches, plus Ziqi Wang's victory at No. 4 singles. Dylan King has matriculated up the singles ladder, now competing at No. 1. Fedor Andrienko has a 14-3 record from the lower half of the order.
 
The Big Red has won eight of its last 10 meetings with the Bulldogs to improve to 17-57-2 in the all-time series. That includes a 4-3 victory in last year's match in the final weekend of the regular season, clinched by sophomore Pietro Rimondini's victory at No. 4 singles.
 
Brown (15-8, 1-3) recorded its first Ivy League victory on Sunday with a 4-2 decision over Princeton. The Bears won the doubles point and then prevailed in each of the top three singles matches. Brown also won the doubles point on Saturday in a 4-1 loss to Penn. Peter Tarwid is 13-2 in singles, moved up from No. 3 to the top two positions in the order last weekend. The Bears also bounce Charles Tan around the order, where he has a 16-5 record.
 
Cornell brings a seven-match winning streak against Brown into Sunday's meeting, which will be the teams' first since the Big Red's dramatic 4-3 victory last season. Cornell fought off a 3-1 deficit to clinch on a three-set victory from Bernardo Casares Rosa '17 at No. 6 to clinch the program's second Ivy League title. The Bears' lead in the all-time series is now down to 32-27.