Author Archives: David Regan

The UCLA men’s tennis team has two players ranked in the national top-10, yet neither has a chance to win the Pac-10 singles title. That’s because you can’t win if you don’t play. On Wednesday coach Billy Martin withdrew Luben Pampoulov from the Pac-10 Championships, which begin today at Libbey Park in Ojai. Pampoulov, ranked […]

UCLA men’s tennis coach Billy Martin is hesitant to call it revenge, and perhaps he’s right. Maybe payback is a better term. Whatever Martin or his team may call it, the No. 7 Bruins accomplished on Friday something they had been thinking about for the last month and a half. With a 5-2 victory over […]

There were just two things that senior Kris Kwinta could think about doing after the UCLA men’s tennis team’s first match against USC this season ““ a match that ended in a heartbreaking 5-2 defeat for the Bruins. Though neither action was very realistic at the time, just the thought reveals how devastating that loss […]

Luck seems like such a surprising thing to call it. Especially when things like cruel twist of fate, unfair and unjust seem so much more appropriate. It would appear that there’s nothing lucky about a career-ending injury, nothing lucky about being forced against your will to quit doing something that you absolutely love. But then […]

UCLA men’s tennis coach Billy Martin doesn’t want to make excuses for his team, but sometimes it just seems necessary. And after the Bruins’ 4-3 loss to Cal on Friday, which UCLA followed with an important 4-3 victory over Stanford the following day, the Bruin coach felt compelled to offer some sort of explanation. “We […]

The greatest rivalry in the history of men’s college tennis added another chapter this season. The retirement of Stanford coaching legend Dick Gould, a man who guided the Cardinal to 17 national titles in 38 years, opened the door for former Stanford assistant coach John Whitlinger to take the reins of the program. Whitlinger’s promotion […]

In collegiate tennis, every singles match counts for one point. But there’s one match that carries a bit more prestige, a greater challenge and more pressure than the rest. And that’s what Benjamin Kohlloeffel has been having to deal with at the No. 1 position for the UCLA men’s tennis team. Though there’s never an […]