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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.
Rivalry games are always special. They’re those games that are circled on the calendar before the season and are denoted as must-win games.
With all the attention that UCLA football and basketball recruitment have gotten recently, there is currently an interesting recruiting trend occurring with the men’s tennis team that has been overlooked.
The No. 6 Bruins would defeat the No. 11 Cardinal 6-1 and No. 12 Cal Golden Bears this weekend to improve their overall record to 20-2 and Pac-12 record to 6-0.
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.
The match was already settled. UCLA had won, but The Beards were still scrapping.
As Pac-12 play is underway and the regular season starts to wind to a close, the men’s tennis team is still in the process of improving its game.
