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No. 13 Bruins Fall to No. 8 Cardinal, 6-1
March 26, 2011 | Men's Tennis
March 26, 2011
Stanford, Calif. - The No. 13 UCLA men's tennis team concluded what ended up being a rough weekend in the Bay Area on Saturday, falling 6-1 to No. 8 Stanford at the Taube Tennis Center. The Bruins, who also suffered a 4-3 loss to No. 12 Cal on Friday, fall to 11-5 overall and 0-2 in the Pac-10. With the win, the Cardinal improve to 9-5 overall and 1-1 in conference play.
Freshman Adrien Puget was the lone singles winner for UCLA on Saturday, as he took a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Denis Lin at court No. 4 to help the Bruins avoid the shutout. Warren Hardie and Amit Inbar also won their doubles match at court No. 2, defeating Matt Kandath and Lin, 9-8, however the doubles point had already been decided at the time of that victory.
Sophomore Maxime Tabatruong was able to extend his match with Greg Hirshman at court No. 5 to three sets, however Tabatruong withdrew from that contest due to injury down 0-3 in the third set.
UCLA continues Pac-10 play next week, hosting Washington on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and Oregon on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
#8 Stanford 6, #13 UCLA 1
Mar 26, 2011 at Stanford, CA (Taube Tennis Center)
| Doubles |
| 1. #6 Klahn/Thacher (STAN) def. Alex Brigham/Puget (UCLA) 8-5 |
| 2. Hardie/Inbar (UCLA) def. Kandath/Lin (STAN) 9-8 |
| 3. #79 Clayton/Ted Kelly (STAN) def. Kosakowski/Thompson (UCLA) 8-4 |
| Singles |
| 1. #10 Bradley Klahn (STAN) def. #42 Daniel Kosakowski (UCLA) 6-2, 6-3 |
| 2. #36 Ryan Thacher (STAN) def. #61 Amit Inbar (UCLA) 6-3, 7-6 |
| 3. #93 Alex Clayton (STAN) def. Clay Thompson (UCLA) 6-2, 6-1 |
| 4. Adrien Puget (UCLA) def. Denis Lin (STAN) 6-3, 6-4 |
| 5. Greg Hirshman (STAN) def. #118 Maxime Tabatruong (UCLA) 6-4, 1-6, 3-0 Ret. |
| 6. Matt Kandath (STAN) def. Warren Hardie (UCLA) 6-4, 7-5 |
| Match Notes |
| UCLA 11-5; 0-2 Pac-10; National ranking #13 |
| Stanford 9-5; 1-1 Pac-10; National ranking #8 |
| Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (3,4,2,6,5,1) |
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