Three straight years. That’s how many times a UCLA Bruin and a USC Trojan have faced off in the men’s singles final of the ITA Southwest Regional Championship. And for the third time in a row, the Bruin beat the Trojan. Senior Gage Brymer defeated USC junior Thibault Forget 6-1, 7-6(3) Monday afternoon to clinch […]
Category Archives: Women’s Tennis
The Rundown: Oct. 18
Shibahara snags championship title Two tournaments into Ena Shibahara’s collegiate career, and she’s reached two finals. This time, the freshman put away her opponent in three sets. One week removed from a second-place finish at the 2016 Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, Shibahara defeated top-seeded Pepperdine sophomore Luisa Stefani 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 to capture the Oracle ITA […]
Women’s and men’s tennis players deliver strong tournament play
Ena Shibahara needed 11 straight wins to capture the 2016 Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Singles Championship. She only got 10. The UCLA freshman dropped only two sets while cruising through the prequalifying, qualifying and main draws in Pacific Palisades. She ran out of steam against third-seeded Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo, however, falling 6-4, 6-3 […]
Women’s tennis makes headway despite losses at Cal Nike Invitational
Jada Hart almost had another championship. The redshirt freshman – and defending U.S. Open juniors girls’ doubles champion –and junior Terri Fleming advanced to the finals of the Cal Nike Fall Invitational Blue Doubles bracket but came up short of the title, falling 8-6 to Arizona State’s Kassidy Jump and Sammi Hampton. UCLA women’s tennis […]
Incoming freshmen rise to first place in Junior Grand Slam
Jada Hart and Ena Shibahara were already national champions, but now they can put a Juniors Grand Slam title under their belts. All it took was fending off a one-set deficit and a third set match point. Hart and Shibahara, who also won the 18’s girls’ doubles title at the USTA National Championships in August, […]
Past, current and future Bruins falter in US Open
This year’s U.S. Open proved there is still a huge gap between the collegiate and pro ranks. Mackie McDonald, the 2016 NCAA singles and doubles champion, won the first two sets against qualifier Jan Šátral, but the former Bruin couldn’t clinch a third and eventually crashed out of the first round 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, […]
Current and former Bruins prepare for US Open
Winning the NCAA singles and doubles championship is impressive, but winning a professional tennis major is on a whole other level. Mackie McDonald, the 2016 NCAA dual champion and UCLA alum, begins his first U.S. Open main draw Monday with a first-round match against the Czech Republic’s Jan Satral. If he wins more than two […]