LOS ANGELES – The No. 33 UCLA men’s tennis team was bested by crosstown rival and No. 8-ranked USC in a 4-0 non-conference result Wednesday at Los Angeles Tennis Center.
The Bruins (5-2) saw freshmen Gianluca Ballotta and Aadarsh Tripathi each nab a set, but both matches were left unfinished. The Trojans (8-3) got singles wins from Bradley Frye, Lodewijk Weststrate and clincher Peter Makk.
The 17th-ranked tandem of Frye and Stefan Dostanic defeated Tripathi and Giacomo Revelli by a 6-3 margin on the top court for the day’s first decision. Wojtek Marek and Samuel Rubell of USC then clinched the first point by way of a 6-3 victory against Ballotta and Patrick Zahraj on Court 3. The Court 2 matchup between Makk/Weststrate and Fradkin/Li was locked in a 4-4 tie when it was abandoned.
Tripathi picked up a first set for the Bruins, but Zahraj was unable to add another when he came up short in a tiebreaker with No. 42 Dostanic on Court 1. Weststrate was off his singles court first, holding off Stefan Leustian in a close first set en route to a 6-4, 6-1 win on Court 6. Frye then followed on Court 5, getting past Fradkin for a 6-2, 6-2 victory.
No. 19 Makk led Revelli 6-4, 5-2 on Court 2 before the Bruin mounted a comeback, securing the next three games. Makk took the final two games, however, and the sealing win.
Zahraj, who has still yet to drop a singles contest in dual-match play, held a 4-1 second-set advantage versus Dostanic when the match was left unfinished.
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