The UCLA men’s tennis team was eliminated from the NCAA Championship after a 4-0 loss to San Diego on May 2. The match took place at the Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center, with San Diego advancing to the super-regional round. UCLA finished its season with an 18-8 record.
San Diego, seeded fifteenth, began by securing two doubles victories. Stian Klaassen and Oliver Tarvet defeated Spencer Johnson and Bengt Reinhard 6-2 on Court 2. Adrien Berrut and Lambert Ruland, ranked thirty-fourth nationally as a pair, clinched the doubles point for San Diego with a 6-3 win over Andy Nguyen and Aadarsh Tripathi.
In singles play, San Diego won five of six first sets. Lambert Ruland increased the Toreros’ lead by defeating Tripathi in straight sets on Court 4. On Court 1, nineteenth-ranked Tarvet beat fifty-sixth-ranked Johnson in two sets to bring his team within one point of victory.
The deciding point came when Klaassen overcame fortieth-ranked Emon van Loben Sels in a tiebreaker on Court 3, winning the match for San Diego. Several other singles matches were left unfinished once the result was determined.
This result marks the end of UCLA’s season following their opening-round win against Arizona State. The Bruins’ campaign concluded against seventeenth-ranked San Diego.
