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No. 5 UCLA Downs No. 36 Stanford, 4-1
April 02, 2016 | Men's Tennis
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Shaking off a slow start, the fifth-ranked UCLA men's tennis team rattled off four straight singles wins to defeat No. 36 Stanford on Friday afternoon. With the win, the Bruins improve to 15-2 on the season and 3-0 in conference play.
Stanford came out like gangbusters in doubles, jumping out to early leads on all three courts. The Cardinal clinched the point on courts 2 and 3 as Joseph Di Giulio and Karue Sell were edged by Nolan Paige and David Wilczynski, 6-4, and Gage Brymer and Maxime Cressy fell to Yale Goldberg and Sameer Kumar, 6-3. On court 1, the fourth-ranked pair of Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki trailed Stanford's Tom Fawcett and Maciek Romanowicz, 4-5, when the set was abandoned.
UCLA picked up steam in singles, taking four of six first sets. Logan Staggs then cruised past Paige in straights on court 5 to even the score at 1-1. Shortly after, No. 98 Sell downed No. 101 Kumar in straight sets on court 4 to give the Bruins their first lead of the match.
After edging No. 56 Wilczynski, 7-5, in the first set on court 2, No. 49 Redlicki trailed, 1-4, to start the second. Redlicki battled back to knot the score at 5-5, and then traded the next two games with Wilczynski to send it into the tiebreaker. Redlicki won the tiebreaker, 7-4, to take the match and inch the Bruins closer to victory.
Redlicki inches the Bruins closer to victory with a 7-5, 7-6(4) win over Wilczynski to give UCLA a 3-1 lead pic.twitter.com/oj6S8jshBZ
— UCLA Men's Tennis (@uclatennis) April 2, 2016
Di Giulio clinched it for UCLA on court 6, downing No. 110 Romanowicz in straights. After edging his Cardinal opponent, 7-5, in the first set, Di Giulio secured the Bruin victory with a 6-2 win in the second.
Joey D rips the winner for the Bruins! DiGiulio takes down Romanowicz 7-6, 6-2 as UCLA defeats Stanford 4-1!! pic.twitter.com/QGd2JwSIxn
— UCLA Men's Tennis (@uclatennis) April 2, 2016
Next up, UCLA hosts No. 16 California for Senior Day at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. The conference clash takes place at 3 pm PDT, and seniors Karue Sell and Ryoto Tachi will be honored between doubles and singles play. Live scoring is available here.
#5 UCLA 4, #36 Stanford 1
Apr 01, 2016 at Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Tennis Center)
| Doubles competition |
| 1. #4 McDonald/Redlicki (UCLA) vs. Fawcett/Romanowicz (STAN) 4-5, unfinished |
| 2. Paige/Wilczynski (STAN) def. Di Giulio/Sell (UCLA) 6-4 |
| 3. Goldberg/Kumar (STAN) def. Brymer/Cressy (UCLA) 6-3 |
| Singles competition |
| 1. #9 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) vs. #6 Tom Fawcett (STAN) 4-6, 7-5, unfinished |
| 2. #49 Martin Redlicki (UCLA) def. #56 David Wilczynski (STAN) 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) |
| 3. #41 Gage Brymer (UCLA) vs. Michael Genender (STAN) 4-6, 6-5, unfinished |
| 4. #98 Karue Sell (UCLA) def. #101 Sameer Kumar (STAN) 6-4, 6-4 |
| 5. Logan Staggs (UCLA) def. Nolan Paige (STAN) 6-2, 6-2 |
| 6. Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. #110 Maciek Romanowicz (STAN) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 |
| Match Notes |
| Stanford 9-7; National ranking #36 |
| UCLA 15-2; National ranking #5 |
| Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (5,4,2,6) |
