ITHACA, N.Y. – The men's tennis team will get a first-hand look at its Ivy League competition this weekend, when it hosts the ECAC Indoor Championships at Reis Tennis Center.
 
Cornell (7-0) has rolled through its start to the dual season, continuing to receive votes but falling outside of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Top 25 Coaches Poll. After cruising through six home matches, the Big Red took to the road for the first time last week and came away with a 5-2 victory on Friday at Oklahoma State. Radu Papoe stormed back to win his #3 singles match at love in the third set and senior captain Evan Bynoe clinched by prevailing in a second-set tiebreaker in his #4 singles match. Senior Alafia Ayeni, ranked 27th nationally in singles, rallied to win in three sets from the #1 position.
 
This year's ECAC Indoor Championships are exclusively the eight Ivy League programs. The Big Red – which won the event in 2020 – has been seeded third, meaning it will open up at 6 p.m. Friday against sixth-seeded Yale. The Bulldogs are 4-2 after splitting a pair of home matches last weekend, rebounding from a 5-2 loss to St. John's with a 7-0 sweep of Boston University. Michael Sun is ranked 102nd in the nation in singles.
 
From the match against Yale, Cornell will move on to play either second-seeded Columbia or seventh-seeded Dartmouth on Saturday, either at 6 p.m. after a win or 3 p.m. after a loss. The quarterfinals on the other side of the bracket pit top-seeded Harvard against eighth-seeded Brown and fourth-seeded Princeton and fifth-seeded Penn. Sunday's possible match times are 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. or 3 p.m.