UCLA
Pacific Coast Doubles Championship
Bruin Group Heads to Pacific Coast Doubles
February 28, 2018 | Men's Tennis
LOS ANGELES -- Fresh off their 4-2 home win over crosstown rival USC, members of the No. 4 UCLA men's tennis team will travel to La Jolla, Calif. to take part in the 129th Annual Pacific Coast Doubles Championship. Eleven Bruins are listed in the draw, with play scheduled to begin Friday.
Lucas Bellamy/Logan Staggs vs. Samuel Gearou/Joseph Schwartz (PP) โ Friday, 8 a.m.
Connor Hance/Connor Rapp vs. Patrick Rost/Curtis Worley (n/a) โ Friday, 8 a.m.
(5) Ben Goldberg/Evan Zhu vs. TBD โ Friday, 12:15 p.m.
(5) No. 39 Austin Rapp/Keegan Smith vs. TBD โ Friday, 12:15 p.m.
(9) Maxime Cressy/Bryce Pereira vs. TBD โ Friday, 1:45 p.m.
Reid Ponder will team with fellow San Diego native Brian Wang. The pair will face Sander Gjoels-Andersen and Nicholas Mitchell in first-round action Friday (8 a.m.).
The entire Pacific Coast Doubles draw can be found HERE.
The Bruins' regular doubles lineup of No. 37 Martin Redlicki-Evan Zhu, No. 39 Austin Rapp-Keegan Smith and Maxime Cressy-Bryce Pereira has combined for an impressive 27-7 record on the dual-match season. The defending Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year and All-American selection Redlicki-Zhu is 6-0 on the campaign.
Since the start of the ITA Team Indoor Championships, the Bruins' Court 2 and 3 duos have starred with the opening point on the line. Austin Rapp-Smith has clinched three matches (Feb. 17 vs. Ohio State, Feb. 18 vs. Texas A&M, Feb. 19 vs. Wake Forest) while Cressy-Pereira has notched deciding wins in the three others (Feb. 16 vs. Illinois, Feb. 23 vs. Portland, Feb. 27 vs. USC). Austin Rapp-Smith is 9-2 including fall play, while Cressy-Pereira is 10-5.
Last year's Pacific Coast Double tournament saw a pair of UCLA teams reach the semifinals. Third-seeded Redlicki-Zhu ran off three winsโincluding one versus a team that featured then-future Bruin Smithโbefore falling to eventual champion Lucas Gerch-Arjun Kadhe of Oklahoma State. Cressy-Ben Goldberg, meanwhile, reached the final four stage as a No. 9 seed before bowing out to Stanford's team of Jack Barber-William Genesen.
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