UCLA
Stanford
Bruins Blank Cardinal, Advance to Finals
April 28, 2017 | Men's Tennis
OJAI, Calif. -- The Pac-12 regular-season-champion UCLA men's tennis team showed little rust after two days off at the Pac-12 Championships, as the top-seeded Bruins blanked No. 5 Stanford at Libbey Park in Ojai, Calif., 4-0. Maxime Cressy clinched the trip to Saturday's championship match, which will be broadcast by Pac-12 Networks at 6:00 p.m. from Libbey Park.
The Bruins' top-ranked doubles pair of Martin Redlicki and Evan Zhu set the tone early for UCLA with a 6-2 win over the Cardinal tandem of Tom Fawcett and Yale Goldberg. Stanford quickly responded on Court 3, however, as David Wilczynski and Brandon Sutter knocked off Cressy and Ben Goldberg, 6-3. Then, a week after clinching the doubles point in the Bruins' regular-season finale against USC, Austin Rapp and Joseph Di Giulio accomplished the feat again, with a narrow 7-5 win over Sameer Kumar and Michael Genender on Court 2.
Zhu breezed past Kumar on Court 3, 6-1, 6-0, to open singles and give the Bruins a multi-point advantage. Logan Staggs followed suit with a straight-set win of his own, 6-3, 6-4, to dispatch Genender on Court 4. That left it up to Cressy, whose 6-0, 6-3 win over William Genensen advanced the Bruins to their second consecutive Pac-12 championship match.
Next up for UCLA is a date with the winner of second-seeded California and third-seeded USC. The Bruins defeated the Golden Bears in last year's Pac-12 championship match.
DOUBLES:
1. Redlicki/Zhu, UCLA vs. Fawcett/Goldberg, STAN 6-2
2. A. Rapp/Di Giulio, UCLA vs. Kumar/Genender, STAN 7-5
3. Wilczynski/Sutter, STAN vs. Cressy/Goldberg, UCLA 6-3
Order of finish: 1, 3, 2
SINGLES
1. Tom Fawcett, STAN vs. Gage Brymer, UCLA 1-0 DNF (7-6, 1-1)
2. Martin Redlicki, UCLA vs. David Wilczynski, STAN 1-0 DNF (7-5, 3-3)
3. Evan Zhu, UCLA vs. Sameer Kumar, STAN 2-0 (6-1, 6-0)
4. Logan Staggs, UCLA vs. Michael Genender, STAN 2-0 (6-3, 6-4)
5. Austin Rapp, UCLA vs. Brandon Sutter, STAN 1-1 DNF (6-7, 6-1)
6. Maxime Cressy, UCLA vs. William Genensen, STAN 2-0 (6-0, 6-3)
Oreder of finish: 3, 4, 6
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