March may only be seven days old, but the UCLA men’s tennis team didn’t wait long to let the madness begin. A day that began with fiery pregame chants was highlighted by a controversial gesture from senior Clay Thompson and ended in high drama at its scintillating best. For a brief moment late Thursday afternoon, […]
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UCLA men’s tennis charged up for rematch of NCAA final against Virginia
Men’s tennis coach Billy Martin exerted little in simply hitting with a rehabbing Adrien Puget on Tuesday. But memories of Puget’s three-set defeat that crowned Virginia the 2013 NCAA champions proved enough to elevate the blood pressures of both men. “From a coaching standpoint, I say … ‘What could I have done differently, what could […]
UCLA men’s tennis competes in doubles, prepares for UVA
This past weekend, the UCLA men’s tennis team competed at the 125th Annual Pacific Coast Doubles Championship, in La Jolla, Calif. The tournament attracted many collegiate teams, including Stanford, USC, Cal and UC Davis. No. 4 UCLA (9-1) entered four doubles pairs in the tournament, one of which made it to the quarterfinals of the […]
Men’s tennis to hone skills at Pacific Coast Doubles Championships
Last Saturday, UCLA men’s tennis handled Pepperdine with relative ease in singles. But doubles play proved to be a different story. After being upset in one of the earlier doubles games, the Bruins needed a dangerously close 8-7 victory from freshman Gage Brymer and sophomore Karue Sell in the decisive doubles game. The match illustrated […]
UCLA men’s tennis dominates singles to defeat USC
It’s almost become a routine for the UCLA men’s tennis team: Drop the doubles point, then win almost every singles point to seal victory. It certainly seemed so after the team’s 5-2 home victory over USC on Tuesday, a win that was the Bruins’ fourth in the five matches in which they have dropped the doubles […]
Men’s tennis looks for rebounding win against evenly matched Trojans
This year’s UCLA men’s tennis team only superficially looks like its 2013 NCAA runner-up counterpart. Only a 4-3 loss to USC at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship separates UCLA, just like last year’s incarnation, from a perfect record nine games into the season. Yet three freshmen in the singles lineup and the absence of […]
UCLA men’s tennis dominates Pepperdine in 4-0 win
Pepperdine’s Tom Hill grunted and groaned each time he hit the ball. He even yelled out a complete sentence after going up 1-0 in his first singles set. Redshirt sophomore Karue Sell went on to demand that Hill’s feet be just as active as his vocal chords. UCLA’s man on court six kept his baseline-stranded […]