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 […]
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UCLA men’s tennis matches ruined by untimely rain
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. The Bruins responded to a two-hour rain delay to start the match by losing their third consecutive doubles point of […]
USC’s Marks Stadium to host UCLA men’s tennis, SEC teams
On the road to the NCAA championship, the two conferences that hold over 80 percent of all NCAA men’s tennis titles will take their shot at each other this weekend. UCLA men’s tennis heads to USC this weekend for the first of four annual installments in the Pac-12/SEC Challenge. No. 2 UCLA opens against No. […]
Men’s tennis set to score spot in Indoors Championships
A road to winter’s biggest tennis tournament runs adjacent to Bruin Walk once more. Three schools — Wisconsin, Nebraska and Texas Tech — will visit UCLA in the Los Angeles Tennis Center this weekend to vie for a spot in next month’s National Team Indoors Championship. A win over the Badgers on Saturday would grant […]
UCLA men’s tennis to open up dual-match play against UCI
Members of men’s tennis made good on the high expectations placed on the nation’s No. 2 team. UCLA athletes comprised half of the top eight singles seeds in this past weekend’s Sherwood Collegiate Cup. All four semifinal spots wound up occupied by Bruins, with five UCLA players reaching the quarterfinals of the 32-man singles draw […]
Sherwood Collegiate Cup to test UCLA men’s tennis
An unenviable task awaits Billy Martin. At some point next week, the men’s tennis coach will look some of his players in the eyes and tell them that other Bruins are playing better than they are. Martin finds little fun in that yearly “necessary evil” of explaining his first lineup of the dual-match season. “(We’ve) […]
Beyond Their Years: Freshman contributed skill to UCLA football’s season
1. Kylie Fitts (DE) Kylie Fitts appeared in six games, recording a single tackle for a loss against Cal in early October. The defensive end would miss every game following the Oregon trip later that month. He underwent surgery in mid-November to treat fractures in the same wrist that he dislocated at the end of […]