Kyle McPhillips was solely focused on the point at hand as she battled UNC’s Caroline Price with the 2014 NCAA championship on the line. Fixated on neither the roar of the crowd nor the cheers of her teammates, McPhillips blocked out all distractions to maintain concentration. McPhillips prevailed after a grueling 12-minute, seven-deuce game, with […]
Category Archives: Women’s Tennis
Women’s tennis bounces back to take down St. Mary’s
The UCLA women’s tennis team got back on the winning track on Friday afternoon, defeating Saint Mary’s College 6-1 at the Riviera Country Club, located 4 miles west of UCLA. The No. 21 Bruins improved to 2-1 on the season, while the Gaels fell to 1-2. The defining moment of the match came early as […]
Women’s tennis to take on Saint Mary’s in first away game
The women’s tennis team will encounter its first test away from home this season when it takes on Saint Mary’s Friday, but at least the Bruins won’t have to trek all the way to Northern California to face the Gaels. Instead, the No. 21-ranked Bruins (1-1) will be competing much closer to home. The match […]
Women’s tennis’ doubles edge softens in second match of season
Just two matches into the season, the women’s tennis team has already done something it rarely did last year: It lost a doubles point. UCLA earned 18 of the 22 possible doubles points during the 2015 regular season but in Saturday’s matchup with Fresno State, the Bulldogs took the doubles point and won 4-3 to […]
Women’s tennis team shows potential despite loss to Fresno State
All eyes were on freshman Alaina Miller during the final ten minutes of the UCLA women’s tennis bout against Fresno State on Saturday afternoon at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend Indoor Qualifier. The Bruins were tied with the Bulldogs 3-3 and Miller had rallied a comeback against the Fresno State’s Galina Bykova. Miller’s unique two-handed forehand, […]
Young women’s tennis squad prepares for ITA Kick-Off Weekend
This weekend’s ITA Division I Kick-Off Weekend will provide the women’s tennis team with its first chance to test out a younger, less experienced lineup than the one that reached last year’s NCAA Final. No. 9 UCLA will face UC Irvine Friday in the opening round. With a win over the Anteaters, the Bruins would advance to […]
Senior women’s tennis player falls in tournament finals
Preparation was tough last week. The rain had ruined much of senior Catherine Harrison’s training schedule and with indoor courts an hour or so away, practice was restricted to mostly conditioning. So when Harrison traveled to Indian Wells, California, for the weekend for the National Collegiate Tennis Classic, it was not completely surprising to see […]