Author Archives: Ajaybir Behniwal

Winning without its star player is not a prospect any team wants to be faced with. But that’s exactly what the UCLA women’s tennis team was forced to do as it opened up conference play against the Washington schools over the weekend. UCLA (9-2) was playing without No. 1 singles player, sophomore Riza Zalameda, who […]

The UCLA women’s tennis team finally opens up Pac-10 play this weekend after a two-week hiatus from dual match play. Though the No. 16 Bruins have already taken on four fellow Pac-10 schools, their 3-1 record against them thus far will not count toward the final conference standings. When the Bruins take on Washington State […]

Rarely are they viewed as a contingent, spread across the courts of the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Two of them play under the lights of the stadium courts, while the other is relegated to performing well on the outskirts of the tennis complex. When the three Bruins are viewed not as individuals but as a […]

The UCLA women’s tennis team can take a deep breath as it will finally have a weekend in which it won’t take on a Pac-10 foe or another top-ranked team. Perhaps there is no better time for the non-conference matchup against Cal Poly than this weekend. After returning from a pair of dual matches in […]

It appeared as though the last thing that this year’s UCLA women’s tennis team needed was in injury to one of its members. However, the No. 11 Bruins proved otherwise, capturing a shutout victory against No. 17 Arizona State on Saturday without top singles player Riza Zalameda. Zalameda suffered a slight ankle injury in the […]

So far this season, the UCLA women’s tennis team has become accustomed to playing most of its matches at the Los Angeles Tennis Center, and has had to travel just once to nearby Malibu. Today, though, the No. 11 Bruins face No. 45 Arizona (9-0) and will find themselves in a foreign territory ““ one […]

Not often does Court 6 at the Los Angeles Tennis Center garner much attention during dual matches. But this past Sunday was a completely different story as the fate of the No. 15 UCLA women’s tennis team rested on the racket of sophomore Elizabeth Lumpkin. With the score tied at three matches apiece, all eyes […]