This year’s UCLA men’s tennis team only superficially looks like its 2013 NCAA runner-up counterpart. Only a 4-3 loss to USC at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship separates UCLA, just like last year’s incarnation, from a perfect record nine games into the season. Read more...
Photo: Junior Dennis Mkrtchian, who has won six of his last seven singles matches, said that UCLA has enjoyed playing a tougher schedule than in years past. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Pepperdine’s Tom Hill grunted and groaned each time he hit the ball. He even yelled out a complete sentence after going up 1-0 in his first singles set. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore Karue Sell helped his team achieve a decisive victory over No. 19 Pepperdine. (Carolyn Francis/Daily Bruin)
As can be expected of a team that features the nation’s No. 1-, No. 5- and No. 51-ranked singles players, UCLA men’s tennis has had few problems dominating singles play so far this year. Read more...
Marcos Giron’s serves answered the call each time after he fell behind 1-4 in his third set. But the junior never broke Yannick Hanfmann’s serve and his final, backhanded return flew into the right alley to send UCLA men’s tennis to its first loss of the year and second straight 3-4 semifinal loss to USC on Sunday at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. Read more...
Photo: Though Marcos Giron was able to stretch his match against USC’s Yannick Hanfmann to three sets, the junior fell short in UCLA’s 3-4 loss to USC in the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Last weekend, the UCLA men’s tennis match against Stanford was canceled at a 1-1 tie because of rain, but poor weather will not be an issue for the Bruins this weekend at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. Read more...
Palo Alto rain extinguished any spark kindled within the men’s tennis team, two sets into a Sunday match against Stanford, and No. 2 UCLA concluded its two-part Bay Area trip without a win or loss. Read more...
The UCLA men’s tennis team looks to remain undefeated as it takes on Saint Mary’s College on Saturday in Moraga, Calif. and Pac-12 opponent Stanford on Sunday. Read more...
Photo: Freshman Gage Brymer has not lost one of his five individual matches in 2013 and has dropped only one set over that span. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
