Practice, matches, repeat. Practice, matches, repeat. For the past two weekends, the UCLA women’s tennis team has nestled into a routine of daily weekday practices being capped off by back-to-back weekend matches. And this week’s agenda calls for exactly the same. A stark change from the slower-paced schedule of matches that made up the earlier […]
Category Archives: Women’s Tennis
Women’s tennis’ Jennifer Brady adjusts to team play
Twelve years ago, as freshman Jennifer Brady stepped onto the tennis courts at her local park, she looked across the net to see her fiercest competitor yet: her father. He began taking Brady and her sister there for fun to practice hitting balls and running the court. Less than ten years later, Brady traveled both […]
Women’s tennis results mixed in Stanford, Cal matches
The UCLA women’s tennis team had a long, bittersweet flight back home to the Los Angeles Tennis Center this weekend. The Bruins experienced two days on the road, facing two teams back-to-back with less than 24 hours between matches. The weekend started off on a high note, with No. 3 UCLA first visiting No. 4 […]
Women’s tennis geared up for tough tests against Cal, Stanford
On a windy afternoon in Westwood, the typically rhythmic chime of tennis grunts and racket smashes were nowhere to be heard. Instead, the only audible disturbance was the sound of the UCLA women’s tennis team as the players filed one by one out of their locker room under Straus Stadium and headed toward the team […]
Women’s tennis dominates doubles play this season
For the UCLA women’s tennis team, two heads appear to be better than one. Hidden within the multitude of individual players’ scores and statistics compiled throughout the course of this season lies one aspect of the Bruins’ performance that can still be denoted as “perfect.” In every dual match this season, the team has managed to […]
Women’s tennis maintains shutout streak with Oregon win
UCLA women’s tennis has been in the business of collecting zeroes. And just like when cashing in a check, the more zeroes on the right, the better. For the fifth straight meet this season, the No. 2 Bruins handily dispatched another team without letting their opponent claim a single match in the meet. This time it was […]
UCLA women’s tennis picks up shutout wins over Utah, Colorado
As the UCLA women’s tennis team stepped off the plane in Utah for the first of two road games over the weekend, it wasn’t just the beautiful scenery that took the Bruins’ breaths away – it was the altitude. The courts at both Utah and Colorado are located thousands of feet higher than the team’s […]