Friday, May 2
Berkeley, Calif.
10:00 AM
UCLA
vs
UC Santa Barbara
Kaylan Bigun (Photo: Kirk Irwin)
Men's Tennis Opens NCAA Play Friday
April 30, 2025 | Men's Tennis
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.
FOLLOW LIVE
California (VIDEO | STATS) provides lives coverage of matches played at Hellman Tennis Complex.
Fans unable to attend home UCLA men's tennis matches can still follow live. Up-to-the-second scoring and streaming are available for all matches played at Los Angeles Tennis Center HERE.
Additionally, in-match updates for home and road contests can be found on the UCLA men's tennis X account.
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 47th
Overall Won-Lost Record: 125-42
Appearances Unseeded: Fourth
Round of 16 Appearances (Last): 43 (2019)
Quarterfinal Round Appearances (Last): 39 (2018)
Semifinal Round Appearances (Last): 27 (2018)
Final Round Appearances (Last): 12 (2013)
NCAA Championships (Since 1977): 4 (1979, 1982, 1984, 2005)
NCAA Championships (Total): 16 (1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1984, 2005)
UCLA IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
The UCLA men's tennis program has qualified for the NCAA Championships 47 times in 48 years since the tournament format was adopted. The Bruins have collected 16 NCAA team titles, including four since the changeover in 1977. They have also been one of the last 16 teams standing 43 times. UCLA holds a 125-42 record in NCAA play. UCLA is 1-0 against UC Santa Barbara in postseason play and 32-1 overall. The programs most recently met in 2022, when the Bruins recorded a 6-1 victory at Los Angeles Tennis Center. They previously faced off during the 2002 NCAA tournament, with UCLA sweeping the Gauchos in a first-round matchup.
PAST MATCHUPS
Series vs. UC Santa Barbara: UCLA leads 32-1 (1-0 in NCAA tournament)
Most Recent vs. UC Santa Barbara: UCLA won 6-1 at Los Angeles Tennis Center on Feb. 18, 2022 (Recap)
Series vs. California: UCLA leads 102-18 (3-0 in NCAA tournament)
Most Recent vs. California: California won 4-2 at Los Angeles Tennis Center on Feb. 1 (Recap)
Series vs. Boise State: UCLA leads 7-1 (never met in NCAA tournament)
Most Recent vs. Boise State: UCLA won 7-0 at Los Angeles Tennis Center on Feb. 13, 2011 (Recap)
BIG TEN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
The Bruins on Sunday claimed their program's first-ever Big Ten title and snapped top-seeded Ohio State's 76-match home winning streak โ which dated back to 2021 โ to do so. The three-hour and 32-minute championship showdown ended with Most Outstanding Player van Loben Sels the last man standing. Each of the other five singles contests were completed before the redshirt sophomore entered his third set with 62nd-ranked Alexander Bernard on Court 2. A break of serve for 5-3 was followed by a hold that gave van Loben Sels a 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-3 victory and No. 2 seed UCLA a storybook showing in its first season as a member of the conference. Alexander Hoogmartens joined van Loben Sels on the All-Tournament Team. Hoogmartens' three-set win tied the score of the final at 3-3. The Buckeyes had not lost at home to a Big Ten team since 2003.
IN THE RANKINGS
Team (May 1): No. 16 UCLA
Singles (April 22): No. 21 Rudy Quan*, No. 32 Spencer Johnson, No. 108 Aadarsh Tripathi, No. 110 Emon van Loben Sels
Doubles (April 22): No. 40 Alexander Hoogmartens/Aadarsh Tripathi
* - set or matched career high
QUAN LEADS TRIO HONORED BY BIG TEN
Three Bruins were recognized on April 24 by the Big Ten Conference, which announced its postseason awards as voted on by the league's head coaches. Individual award winners, All-Big Ten and All-Freshman selections and Sportsmanship Honorees were named. Rudy Quan was tabbed the Freshman of the Year. He also made the All-Big Ten First Team, as well as the All-Freshman Team. Emon van Loben Sels earned a spot on the All-Big Ten Second Team and was also chosen as the Bruins' Sportsmanship Honoree. Kaylan Bigun joined Quan on the All-Freshman Team.
AWARD WATCH
Bigun Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for Second Time โ April 23
Quan Earns Third Freshman of the Week Award โ April 16
Emon van Loben Sels Named Big Ten Player of the Week โ April 2
Bigun Picks Up Freshman of the Week Honor โ March 12
Quan Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for Second Time โ Feb. 26
Quan Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week โ Jan. 22
Johnson Earns Spot on Big Ten Men's Tennis Player to Watch List โ Jan. 10
Johnson Named Big Ten Player of the Week After Championship Run โ Oct. 23, 2024
SENIORS CLAIM ESTEEMED PACIFIC COAST DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
Seniors Alexander Hoogmartens and Giacomo Revelli were crowned winners of the 136th Annual Pacific Coast Doubles Championship on March 2 at La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club in La Jolla, Calif. Started in 1890 at the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, Calif., the Pacific Coast Doubles Championship has seen the likes of Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder, Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura, Don Budge, Tony Trabert, Stan Smith, Bob Lutz, Arthur Ashe, Dennis Ralston and John McEnroe lift its trophy. Hoogmartens also won the title alongside Bruin teammate Drew Baird in 2022. The tournament's latest installment featured new pairs across the board for UCLA: Hoogmartens/Revelli, Gianluca Ballotta/Leo von Bismarck and Aadarsh Tripathi/Emon van Loben Sels. Cassius Chinlund also teamed with assistant coach Wil Martin. In the final, Hoogmartens and Revelli outlasted Pepperdine's ninth-seeded duo of Aleksa Pisaric and Lasse Poertner. The Bruins dug themselves out of a hole in the match's second-set tiebreaker, mounting a comeback en route to their 4-6, 7-6(8), 6-3 victory.
FALL RECAP
Bruins competed at six fall tournaments, concluding with the first-ever fall NCAA individual championships. There was a UCLA sweep at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships in Tempe, Ariz., where Spencer Johnson collected the singles title and Alexander Hoogmartens/Aadarsh Tripathi walked away with the doubles crown. Emon van Loben Sels reached the singles semifinals at Kiwanis Tennis Center. Each of those standout performances was rewarded with a ticket to NCAAs in Waco, Texas. Johnson won three matches there, reaching the quarterfinal round. Hoogmartens/Tripathi also had a quarterfinal run. Those showings garnered each All-America recognition. A singles win was also picked up by van Loben Sels. Johnson (10-2) and van Loben Sels (10-5) tied for the team lead with 10 singles victories during the fall, while Hoogmartens/Tripathi went a perfect 7-0 before the pair was unable to go in its finale.
BRUINS ON TOUR
Former UCLA standouts continue to become household names in the professional ranks, with Maxime Cressy, Marcos Giron, Mackenzie McDonald and Jean-Julien Rojer turning in notable results across the Grand Slams and on the ATP Tour in recent years. Cressy picked up his first ATP Tour championship and saw his singles ranking reach a career-best No. 31 when he beat Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan at the 2022 Hall of Fame Open in Newport, R.I. An ATP doubles title followed for Cressy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he teamed with Fabrice Martin to take the 2023 Dubai Open's top prize. Giron rose to a career-high spot of No. 37 on the singles list when he claimed his first ATP crown by knocking off fellow American Alex Michelsen at the 2024 Hall of Fame Open. Giron has already reached the BNP Paribas Open singles fourth round and the Australian Open singles third round in 2025. He knocked off world No. 5 Casper Ruud during his run in Indian Wells, Calif. In 2023, Giron reached the Roland-Garros singles third round for the second time and also notched top-10 wins against Ruud and Holger Rune of Denmark. McDonald, who opened 2023 by beating top seed and defending champion Rafael Nadal in three sets at the Australian Open, represented the United States at the Davis Cup Finals in Uzbekistan and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 37 the same year. Rojer collected his fourth Grand Slam title at Roland-Garros in 2022, teaming with Marcelo Arevalo to defeat Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek in the final. Rojer won three ATP championships with Arevalo in 2023 and another alongside Lloyd Glasspool in 2024.
MARTIN MILESTONES
Head coach Billy Martin is in his 32nd year at the helm of the UCLA men's tennis program and this season marks his 42nd since joining the staff of friend, mentor and fellow UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Glenn Bassett. Martin, who passed Bassett to became the program's all-time leader in head-coaching wins during the 2019 season, is the longest-tenured active coach at UCLA. He holds a career record of 673-174 (.795) as head coach. Martin guided the 2005 Bruins to the program's 16th NCAA team title and 23 of his squads have finished in the top five at the season-ending NCAA Championships. Benjamin Kohlloeffel (2006), Marcos Giron (2014) and Mackenzie McDonald (2016) have earned NCAA singles titles on Martin's watch, while UCLA has become a frequent landing spot for doubles champions of late. In addition to 1996 winners Justin Gimelstob and Srdjan Muskatirovic, three of the most recent seven titleholders โ McDonald/Martin Redlicki in 2016, Redlicki/Evan Zhu in 2018 and Maxime Cressy/Keegan Smith in 2019 โ have called Westwood home.
FOLLOW LIVE
California (VIDEO | STATS) provides lives coverage of matches played at Hellman Tennis Complex.
Fans unable to attend home UCLA men's tennis matches can still follow live. Up-to-the-second scoring and streaming are available for all matches played at Los Angeles Tennis Center HERE.
Additionally, in-match updates for home and road contests can be found on the UCLA men's tennis X account.
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 47th
Overall Won-Lost Record: 125-42
Appearances Unseeded: Fourth
Round of 16 Appearances (Last): 43 (2019)
Quarterfinal Round Appearances (Last): 39 (2018)
Semifinal Round Appearances (Last): 27 (2018)
Final Round Appearances (Last): 12 (2013)
NCAA Championships (Since 1977): 4 (1979, 1982, 1984, 2005)
NCAA Championships (Total): 16 (1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1984, 2005)
UCLA IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
The UCLA men's tennis program has qualified for the NCAA Championships 47 times in 48 years since the tournament format was adopted. The Bruins have collected 16 NCAA team titles, including four since the changeover in 1977. They have also been one of the last 16 teams standing 43 times. UCLA holds a 125-42 record in NCAA play. UCLA is 1-0 against UC Santa Barbara in postseason play and 32-1 overall. The programs most recently met in 2022, when the Bruins recorded a 6-1 victory at Los Angeles Tennis Center. They previously faced off during the 2002 NCAA tournament, with UCLA sweeping the Gauchos in a first-round matchup.
PAST MATCHUPS
Series vs. UC Santa Barbara: UCLA leads 32-1 (1-0 in NCAA tournament)
Most Recent vs. UC Santa Barbara: UCLA won 6-1 at Los Angeles Tennis Center on Feb. 18, 2022 (Recap)
Series vs. California: UCLA leads 102-18 (3-0 in NCAA tournament)
Most Recent vs. California: California won 4-2 at Los Angeles Tennis Center on Feb. 1 (Recap)
Series vs. Boise State: UCLA leads 7-1 (never met in NCAA tournament)
Most Recent vs. Boise State: UCLA won 7-0 at Los Angeles Tennis Center on Feb. 13, 2011 (Recap)
BIG TEN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
The Bruins on Sunday claimed their program's first-ever Big Ten title and snapped top-seeded Ohio State's 76-match home winning streak โ which dated back to 2021 โ to do so. The three-hour and 32-minute championship showdown ended with Most Outstanding Player van Loben Sels the last man standing. Each of the other five singles contests were completed before the redshirt sophomore entered his third set with 62nd-ranked Alexander Bernard on Court 2. A break of serve for 5-3 was followed by a hold that gave van Loben Sels a 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-3 victory and No. 2 seed UCLA a storybook showing in its first season as a member of the conference. Alexander Hoogmartens joined van Loben Sels on the All-Tournament Team. Hoogmartens' three-set win tied the score of the final at 3-3. The Buckeyes had not lost at home to a Big Ten team since 2003.
IN THE RANKINGS
Team (May 1): No. 16 UCLA
Singles (April 22): No. 21 Rudy Quan*, No. 32 Spencer Johnson, No. 108 Aadarsh Tripathi, No. 110 Emon van Loben Sels
Doubles (April 22): No. 40 Alexander Hoogmartens/Aadarsh Tripathi
* - set or matched career high
QUAN LEADS TRIO HONORED BY BIG TEN
Three Bruins were recognized on April 24 by the Big Ten Conference, which announced its postseason awards as voted on by the league's head coaches. Individual award winners, All-Big Ten and All-Freshman selections and Sportsmanship Honorees were named. Rudy Quan was tabbed the Freshman of the Year. He also made the All-Big Ten First Team, as well as the All-Freshman Team. Emon van Loben Sels earned a spot on the All-Big Ten Second Team and was also chosen as the Bruins' Sportsmanship Honoree. Kaylan Bigun joined Quan on the All-Freshman Team.
AWARD WATCH
Bigun Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for Second Time โ April 23
Quan Earns Third Freshman of the Week Award โ April 16
Emon van Loben Sels Named Big Ten Player of the Week โ April 2
Bigun Picks Up Freshman of the Week Honor โ March 12
Quan Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for Second Time โ Feb. 26
Quan Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week โ Jan. 22
Johnson Earns Spot on Big Ten Men's Tennis Player to Watch List โ Jan. 10
Johnson Named Big Ten Player of the Week After Championship Run โ Oct. 23, 2024
SENIORS CLAIM ESTEEMED PACIFIC COAST DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
Seniors Alexander Hoogmartens and Giacomo Revelli were crowned winners of the 136th Annual Pacific Coast Doubles Championship on March 2 at La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club in La Jolla, Calif. Started in 1890 at the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, Calif., the Pacific Coast Doubles Championship has seen the likes of Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder, Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura, Don Budge, Tony Trabert, Stan Smith, Bob Lutz, Arthur Ashe, Dennis Ralston and John McEnroe lift its trophy. Hoogmartens also won the title alongside Bruin teammate Drew Baird in 2022. The tournament's latest installment featured new pairs across the board for UCLA: Hoogmartens/Revelli, Gianluca Ballotta/Leo von Bismarck and Aadarsh Tripathi/Emon van Loben Sels. Cassius Chinlund also teamed with assistant coach Wil Martin. In the final, Hoogmartens and Revelli outlasted Pepperdine's ninth-seeded duo of Aleksa Pisaric and Lasse Poertner. The Bruins dug themselves out of a hole in the match's second-set tiebreaker, mounting a comeback en route to their 4-6, 7-6(8), 6-3 victory.
FALL RECAP
Bruins competed at six fall tournaments, concluding with the first-ever fall NCAA individual championships. There was a UCLA sweep at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships in Tempe, Ariz., where Spencer Johnson collected the singles title and Alexander Hoogmartens/Aadarsh Tripathi walked away with the doubles crown. Emon van Loben Sels reached the singles semifinals at Kiwanis Tennis Center. Each of those standout performances was rewarded with a ticket to NCAAs in Waco, Texas. Johnson won three matches there, reaching the quarterfinal round. Hoogmartens/Tripathi also had a quarterfinal run. Those showings garnered each All-America recognition. A singles win was also picked up by van Loben Sels. Johnson (10-2) and van Loben Sels (10-5) tied for the team lead with 10 singles victories during the fall, while Hoogmartens/Tripathi went a perfect 7-0 before the pair was unable to go in its finale.
BRUINS ON TOUR
Former UCLA standouts continue to become household names in the professional ranks, with Maxime Cressy, Marcos Giron, Mackenzie McDonald and Jean-Julien Rojer turning in notable results across the Grand Slams and on the ATP Tour in recent years. Cressy picked up his first ATP Tour championship and saw his singles ranking reach a career-best No. 31 when he beat Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan at the 2022 Hall of Fame Open in Newport, R.I. An ATP doubles title followed for Cressy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he teamed with Fabrice Martin to take the 2023 Dubai Open's top prize. Giron rose to a career-high spot of No. 37 on the singles list when he claimed his first ATP crown by knocking off fellow American Alex Michelsen at the 2024 Hall of Fame Open. Giron has already reached the BNP Paribas Open singles fourth round and the Australian Open singles third round in 2025. He knocked off world No. 5 Casper Ruud during his run in Indian Wells, Calif. In 2023, Giron reached the Roland-Garros singles third round for the second time and also notched top-10 wins against Ruud and Holger Rune of Denmark. McDonald, who opened 2023 by beating top seed and defending champion Rafael Nadal in three sets at the Australian Open, represented the United States at the Davis Cup Finals in Uzbekistan and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 37 the same year. Rojer collected his fourth Grand Slam title at Roland-Garros in 2022, teaming with Marcelo Arevalo to defeat Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek in the final. Rojer won three ATP championships with Arevalo in 2023 and another alongside Lloyd Glasspool in 2024.
MARTIN MILESTONES
Head coach Billy Martin is in his 32nd year at the helm of the UCLA men's tennis program and this season marks his 42nd since joining the staff of friend, mentor and fellow UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Glenn Bassett. Martin, who passed Bassett to became the program's all-time leader in head-coaching wins during the 2019 season, is the longest-tenured active coach at UCLA. He holds a career record of 673-174 (.795) as head coach. Martin guided the 2005 Bruins to the program's 16th NCAA team title and 23 of his squads have finished in the top five at the season-ending NCAA Championships. Benjamin Kohlloeffel (2006), Marcos Giron (2014) and Mackenzie McDonald (2016) have earned NCAA singles titles on Martin's watch, while UCLA has become a frequent landing spot for doubles champions of late. In addition to 1996 winners Justin Gimelstob and Srdjan Muskatirovic, three of the most recent seven titleholders โ McDonald/Martin Redlicki in 2016, Redlicki/Evan Zhu in 2018 and Maxime Cressy/Keegan Smith in 2019 โ have called Westwood home.
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