The Sun: What are your thoughts right now on the state of the tennis program?

With a forecast of sunny skies and temperatures in the high 70’s for the next couple of days, it appears that spring has arrived just in time for the start of the Ivy League tennis season.

With the snow all but gone and Spring Break just days away, it is not uncommon to have trouble focusing this time of year. Fortunately, this fate did not befall the tennis teams this weekend, as the Red took care of business against both St. Bonaventure and Stony Brook at the Reis Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon.

Having an undefeated record in an all-time series with one team is pretty impressive; holding that distinction against two teams is even more legit; and hosting both of those teams in the same weekend definitely makes for an interesting couple of days.

The men’s tennis team returns to action this weekend with a pair of matches after sweeping its opponents last weekend at the Reis Tennis Center. The Red (5-2, 0-0 Ivy) defeated Buffalo, 4-3, and Fairleigh Dickinson, 5-2, at home to continue its march towards what could be its first Ivy League title in Cornell history. The men’s squad will host GW on Friday before traveling to University Park, Pa. to take on Penn State on Saturday. The women meanwhile earned a 5-2 victory over Rutgers on Sunday afternoon.

In what will unquestionably be a very busy weekend at the Reis Tennis Center, the Red will host four schools over the next three days. The action kicks off tomorrow when the women’s team takes on Binghamton (3-0, 0-0 AEC). The Red (2-3, 0-0 Ivy) then plays Rutgers (3-1, 1-0 Big East) in a Sunday morning matinee to close out the weekend. While the women are off the courts, the men’s team will face off against Buffalo (2-1, 0-0 MAC) and Fairleigh Dickinson (2-1, 0-0 NEC) in a double header on Saturday.

Only two weeks into the new season, things are beginning to take shape for the men’s and women’s tennis teams. Both squads competed in the ECAC/Ivy Challenge over the weekend, with the men taking two of their three matches and the women picking up one victory in three tries.

The first week of team competition is now in the books for the men’s tennis team after matches against Marist and Binghamton were completed over the weekend at the Reis Tennis Center. The Red (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) defeated Marist on Saturday, 5-2, before falling to Binghamton in the nightcap of the day’s events. Cornell defeated Marist (1-2, 1-0 MAAC) in six of the nine matches the two teams played to win its first event of the new season. A few hours later the Red was unable to duplicate that success, losing to a very tough Binghamton squad (5-0, 0-0 AEC), 5-2.

[SIDEBAR]The tennis teams — both men’s and wome’ns — had a mixed weekend, with both teams winning and some and losing some in their respective invitationals.

The women finished up the weekend at the prestigious Eastern Championships. the event was massive, with 30 different teams attending the competition hosted by Army.

All for one: The women’s tennis team prepares to compete in a match against Fairleigh Dickinson.Operating under these odds, the women did quite well, with freshmen Geraldine Leong and Kristen Kim Lin winning the second doubles finals by a score of 8-3 over perrenial opponent Stony Brook.

The women’s tennis team will head north to Syracuse to face the Orangemen this Friday. The team has been riding a three-game skid, but Syracuse will be a much harder test than any of the teams the Red has faced so far. The men will also be traveling, competing in S.C. and Ga. Syracuse opened its 2009 season with six-straight wins, taking its first lost this past week against Iowa. The team beat Buffalo in solid fashion, 5-2, a team that recently took down the Red in a close contest. The Red will need a new sense of game if it intends to inflict damage against Syracuse.[img_assist|nid=35580|title=Across the net|desc=Sophomore Jeremy Feldman gauges an incoming shot during the men’s match against Binghamton on Feb. 11.