ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell men's tennis team welcomes non-league opponents to Reis Tennis Center for the final time this season with a Sunday doubleheader, starting at 11 a.m. against Western Michigan before a 3:30 p.m. dual against Bucknell.
 
Cornell (9-3) held steady at 61st in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association national rankings this week after ending a three-match losing streak with a 6-1 victory over visiting Nebraska on Saturday. Victories from the top two doubles matches gave Cornell the opening point, then straight-set singles victories from senior Alafia Ayeni (#1), and freshmen Radu Papoe (#2) and Jack McCarthy (#6) clinched.
 
Though the match was originally scheduled to be the first of four on the weekend for the Big Red, tilts against Colgate, St. John's and Binghamton were all subsequently canceled. Ayeni remains ranked 33rd in the nation in singles and 31st in doubles when paired with junior Vladislav Melnic.
 
While Sunday morning's match with be Cornell's first of the weekend, it will be the last of three in a three-day span for Western Michigan, which brings a 6-6 record into an Upstate New York tour that starts with stops Friday at Buffalo and Saturday at Binghamton for Mid-American Conference matches. The Broncos emerged as 66th in the ITA rankings after home victories against Ball State and Toledo last weekend. The doubles team of Arjun Honnappa and Fynn Lohse is 5-4 from the top position and ranked 68th nationally.
 
Bucknell is 4-10 heading into a Thursday match at St. Thomas (Fla.), concluding a four-match stretch through The Sunshine State. The Bison's last Division I match was a 6-1 loss March 5 at Dartmouth, which is the only other Ivy League program on the team's slate.