Cassius Chinlund (Photo: Kirk Irwin)
Cassius Chinlund (Photo: Kirk Irwin)

Men's Tennis Placed in Berkeley Regional of NCAA Tournament

April 28, 2025 | Men's Tennis

INDIANAPOLIS โ€“ Big Ten Conference Tournament champion UCLA was placed in the Berkeley, Calif. regional of the 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship, the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Subcommittee announced Monday.

California will host first- and second-round matches at Hellman Tennis Complex on Friday and Saturday. The Bruins (16-8) meet UC Santa Barbara (18-4) Friday at 10 a.m. PT, with 11th-seeded Cal (18-4) set to play Boise State (21-5) at 1 p.m. PT. The winners will face off Saturday at 1 p.m. PT.

UCLA holds an all-time record of 32-1 against UCSB. The programs most recently met in 2022, when the Bruins recorded a 6-1 victory at Los Angeles Tennis Center. They have met once in the NCAA tournament, with UCLA winning a first-round matchup in 2002 by a 4-0 score.

The winner of each site advances to super-regional competition May 9-11. Each super-regional site will feature two teams playing a single-elimination format. The super-regional winners advance to Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas, where the eight teams will compete for the national championship May 16-18.

The matches shall be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point, played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. During the championship, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined.
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