Eight days after the UCLA men’s tennis team staged a coup d’etat in Los Angeles, ousting the perennial champions USC, the Trojans grabbed back bragging rights.
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Men’s tennis upsets top-ranked USC, snapping the Trojans’ 45-game win streak
On Friday, UCLA beat the best college tennis team in the land, and there wasn’t pandemonium.
Someone snapped a team picture on an iPhone, and everyone smiled, but the celebration for winning the Pac-12 title, and snapping USC’s 45-match winning streak was tempered.
“It’s important to beat (USC), but this is not the defining match,” freshman Marcos Giron said.
Strong doubles will be key as UCLA men’s tennis hosts Cal, Stanford
For tennis aficionados, reading the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s rule manual is like reading David Foster Wallace: you don’t, and you lie about it.
Men’s tennis defeats Utah on the road, remaining undefeated in Pac-12 competition
The match was already settled. UCLA had won, but The Beards were still scrapping.