Aside from a respectable loss to top-ranked Stanford last weekend, the UCLA women’s tennis team has been mowing down its opponents. That trend continued on Thursday afternoon as the No. 10 Bruins downed 38th-ranked Pepperdine 6-1 at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu. “I was very pleased with the way we won,” coach Stella Sampras Webster […]
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Doubles Team
Not playing tennis was never an option for freshman Riza Zalameda. Since the age of 2, her father Rolly Zalameda pushed her to her limits. Often times, he came close to passing them. “So many times I wanted to quit tennis,” Zalameda said. “I hated it because my dad was always there every single day […]
W. tennis: Tennis defeats Texas, extends winning streak
While the Los Angeles Tennis Center event staff was busy giving away free T-shirts to the fans in the stands, the UCLA women’s tennis team was busy giving free lessons to its opponents on the court. The No. 12 Bruins demolished visiting No. 13 Texas 6-1 on Tuesday. The victory gave UCLA a three-game winning […]
W. tennis: Bruins beat Washington schools
This weekend had all the makings of an abysmal road trip for the UCLA women’s tennis team, but the team competed as if it was oblivious to all the factors that it was up against. After losing to rival USC on Wednesday, UCLA (8-4, 2-1 Pac-10) turned around and soundly defeated the Washington schools on […]
W. tennis: Women’s tennis ready to face USC after rain postponement, venue change
The UCLA women’s tennis squad went through its usual pre-match routine on Tuesday: warm-ups, stretches, working on singles and running some doubles drills. Except there was one minor difference: they were practicing at Marks Stadium, home of crosstown rival USC. Due to a construction conflict at the Los Angeles Tennis Center, the Bruins were forced […]
W. tennis: Freshman will find familiar face in Trojan opponent
For UCLA’s Riza Zalameda, facing USC today at the Los Angeles Tennis Center will mean more than any other match this season, and not just because of the crosstown rivalry. To Zalameda, today’s match means that she will once again be pitted against her longtime adversary and fellow freshman phenom Lindsey Nelson when the two […]
W. tennis: Women’s tennis loses to Stanford, beats Cal
After weeks of rainouts and cancelled practices, the No. 11 women’s tennis team was finally able to take to the courts against the Bay Area schools this weekend and received mixed results. Playing its first matches in nearly two weeks, UCLA fell to No. 1 Stanford, 6-1 Friday before bouncing back on Saturday to soundly […]