UCLA Men's Tennis Players Still Alive in Malibu
Malibu, Calif. - Five UCLA players moved into the round of 16 of singles play, as action at the 2014 USTA/ITA Southwest Regionals continued on Saturday at Pepperdine University.
All three of the Bruins' ranked singles players advanced without too much trouble. Top-seed and 13th-ranked Mackenzie McDonald was a 6-1, 7-6 winner of UC Irvine's Rafael Davidian. Gage Brymer, the nation's 45th-ranked singles player, had the most impressive result on the day, losing just three games in a 6-1, 6-2 win over San Diego's Geoffrey Fosso. Dennis Mkrtchian, ranked No. 93 nationally, was also a straight-set winner, beating LMU's Joat Farah, 6-4, 6-2.
Additional wins by Joseph Di Giulio (def. Eric Johnson/USC, 6-3, 6-4) and Martin Redlicki (def. Nico Mertens/UCI, 7-5, 7-6) upped UCLA's total of players in the round of 16 to five.
Three Bruin teams also reached the quarterfinals in the doubles draw, with the duos of McDonald/Redlicki, Brymer/Mkrtchian and Di Giulio/Karue Sell each posting two wins on Saturday.
Below are UCLA's complete results from the tournament. For more information, please visit Pepperdine's Southwest Regional Page.
USTA/ITA Southwest Regionals
Oct 17-21, 2014 at Malibu, CA (Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center)
| Singles competition | |
| Main Draw | |
| 128 | Nikolas Ramadan (UCLA) def. Cody Rakela (UC Santa Barbara) 6-4, 7-5 |
| 128 | Marko Babic (San Diego State) def. Michael Guzman (UCLA) 6-1, 6-4 |
| 128 | Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Fred Gelbrich (San Diego State) 6-4, 6-3 |
| 128 | Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Alexander Solonin (Pepperdine) 6-1, 6-0 |
| 128 | Austin Rapp (UCLA) def. Jason Jaruvang (Arizona) 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 |
| 64 | Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Marcel Chan (Hawaii) 6-2, 6-2 |
| 64 | Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) def. Matthew Dunn (Arizona) 6-1, 6-0 |
| 64 | Nikolas Ramadan (UCLA) def. Alexander Roggenkamp (Grand Canyon) 1-6, 6-1, 7-5 |
| 64 | Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Ciarian Fitzgerald (San Diego) 6-4, 6-3 |
| 64 | Martin Redlicki (UCLA) def. Rob Bellamy (USC) 6-1, 6-1 |
| 64 | Dennis Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. Erik Johnsson (UC Santa Barbara) 6-2, 6-2 |
| 64 | Hendrik Jebens (San Diego State) def. Karue Sell (UCLA) 6-2, 6-4 |
| 64 | Austin Rapp (UCLA) def. Charles Boyce (Loyola Marymount) 7-5, 4-2, retired |
| 64 | Gage Brymer (UCLA) def. Chase Masciorini (UC Santa Barbara) 6-1, 6-4 |
| 32 | Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) def. Rafael Davidian (UC Irvine) 6-1, 7-6 |
| 32 | Filip Vittek (San Diego) def. Nikolas Ramadan (UCLA) 6-4, 6-0 |
| 32 | Martin Redlicki (UCLA) def. Nico Mertens (UC Irvine) 7-5, 7-6 |
| 32 | Dennis Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. Joat Farah (Loyola Marymount) 6-4, 6-2 |
| 32 | Sebastian Heim (UC Irvine) def. Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) 7-5, 6-1 |
| 32 | Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Eric Johnson (USC) 6-3, 6-4 |
| 32 | Gage Brymer (UCLA) def. Geoffrey Fosso (San Diego) 6-2, 6-1 |
| 32 | Stefan Menichella (Pepperdine) def. Austin Rapp (UCLA) 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 |
| Consolation | |
| 32 | Michael Guzman (UCLA) def. Philip Kuehnen (Grand Canyon) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 |
| Doubles competition | |
| Main Draw | |
| 64 | Teague Hamilton/Morgan Mays (UC Santa Barbara) def. Michael Guzman/Austin Rapp (UCLA) 8-3 |
| 64 | Nikolas Ramadan/Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Philip Kuehnen/Adrian Legarreta (Grand Canyon) 8-5 |
| 32 | Joseph Di Giulio/Karue Sell (UCLA) def. Garrett Auproux/Lucas Lexouer (Cal Poly) 8-4 |
| 32 | Gage Brymer/Dennis Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. Chase Masciorini/Cody Rakela (UC Santa Barbara) 8-5 |
| 32 | Fred Gelbrich/Hendrik Jebens (San Diego State) def. Nikolas Ramadan/Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) 8-1 |
| 32 | Mackenzie McDonald/Martin Redlicki (UCLA) def. Daniel Cardiff/Axel Damiens (Cal Poly), by default |
| 16 | Joseph Di Giulio/Karue Sell (UCLA) def. Tom Hill/Kento Tanaka-Tamaki (Pepperdine) 8-4 |
| 16 | Gage Brymer/Dennis Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. Max de Vroome/Tanner Smith (USC) 8-5 |
| 16 | Mackenzie McDonald/Martin Redlicki (UCLA) def. Matthew Dunn/Jason Jaruvang (Arizona) 8-1 |