ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's tennis team will make its final two-match road trip of the season when it visits Brown at 10 a.m. Saturday and Yale at 1 p.m. Sunday. The match against Yale will be broadcast on ESPN3.
 
Cornell (6-10, 0-1 Ivy League) saw a three-match winning streak end with a 4-0 loss to a red-hot Columbia squad last Saturday in the teams' Ivy League opener. Though the Big Red found itself in a 3-0 hole, it forced third sets in the remaining four singles matches before the Lions clinched.
 
For the Big Red, freshman Valerie Ho continues to lead the team with singles victories, sporting a 9-6 record from the middle of the order. Classmate Sarah Campbell is 8-6 from primarily the No. 5 position, and – combined with a 6-8 mark in doubles – Campbell leads the team with 14 overall victories.
 
Brown (8-9, 0-1 Ivy League) enters the weekend on a three-match losing streak, most recently suffering a 4-1 setback to Yale in the teams' Ivy League debut on Saturday. Katie Ta is Brown's highest-ranked player in singles, slightly ahead of Alessandra Bianco. Ta is 9-1 in dual matches while competing from the bottom half of the order. Devon Jack (3-6) and Taylor Cosme (5-11) typically competes toward the top. Bianco and Juliana Simon are the team's top-ranked and the Ivy League's sixth-ranked doubles pairing with a 6-3 record from the bottom two positions.
 
The Bears hold a 30-11 lead all-time against the Big Red, though Cornell has won two of the last three Ivy League meetings between the programs. The one loss in that stretch came last year, when the Big Red's season ended with a 6-1 setback to the Bears.
 
Yale (9-8, 1-0 Ivy League) enters its match Saturday against Columbia on a four-match winning streak. Samantha Martinelli is the Bulldogs' top-ranked player in singles and second in the Ivy League, having won nine of her last 10 matches while competing at the No. 1 position. Raissa Lou has won seven straight from the middle of the order. Martinelli and Lou have started competing together at No. 1 doubles, too.
 
The Bulldogs own a 31-8 advantage in the all-time series between the programs, but Cornell has won the last four matches and five of the last six to break a 17-match Yale winning streak. The Big Red defeated the Bulldogs twice last season – first, 4-3, in the ECAC Indoor Championships; then, 5-2, in the April rematch in Ithaca. Senior Mariko Iinuma won in a super tie-breaker at No. 3 singles in the Big Red's only Ivy League victory of the 2018 season.