Junior Mackenzie McDonald lifted his fist in the air, tilting his head back after two resounding victories. McDonald claimed both the singles and doubles championship titles at the 2016 Division I Men’s Tennis Championship Monday afternoon in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read more...
Photo: Junior Mackie McDonald became the first player in UCLA history to win both the tennis singles and doubles championships in the same year after upsetting Ohio State’s No. 1-ranked Mikael Torpegaard. (Courtesy of NCAA)
Two titles are a fitting end to a dominant display by UCLA men’s tennis. Four hours after Mackie McDonald won the NCAA Division I singles championship, the junior teamed up with sophomore Martin Redlicki to defeat Texas A&M’s Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow 6-4, 6-1 to win the NCAA Division I doubles championship. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore Martin Redlicki (left) and junior Mackie McDonald (right) captured UCLA men’s tennis’ 11th doubles championship Monday, defeating Texas A&M’s Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow in straight sets. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
UCLA’s Mackie McDonald is the 2016 NCAA singles champion. The No. 6 standout junior took down Ohio State’s No. 1 Mikael Torpegaard 6-3, 6-3 in the 2016 NCAA Division I men’s singles championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma to claim the title. Read more...
Photo: Junior Mackie McDonald won the NCAA singles championship in straight sets over Ohio State’s Mikael Torpegaard. It is UCLA men’s tennis’ first individual title since 2014. (Daily Bruin file photo)
TULSA, Okla. –– UCLA is out of contention for a men’s tennis team championship, but it can still pick up individual titles in both singles and doubles. Read more...
Photo: After starting the season unranked, Mackie McDonald will enter the NCAA singles tournament as the No. 6 seed. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
TULSA, Okla. — All eyes were on UCLA men’s tennis to see if it would have a comeback year after a historically disappointing season. And come back they did. Read more...
Photo: No. 2 UCLA men’s tennis finished the season 25-3 after a loss to Oklahoma in the NCAA quarterfinals, but the Bruins accomplished several historic milestones. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
TULSA, Okla. — Red filled the stadium. “Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner! OK, U!” roared the crowd. Not every great season can have a fairy-tale ending and for the Bruins, the volume of the fans sure didn’t soften the blow of that sudden realization. Read more...
Photo: UCLA men’s tennis’ quarterfinal match against No. 11 Oklahoma came down to a duel between junior Joseph Di Giulio and the Sooners’ Andre Biro. Di Giulio lost 6-3, dropping six out of the last seven games in the third set. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Senior Karue Sell barely lost his first set tiebreaker, so he changed his shirt, seeking a change in fortune. It worked. Sell lost just three games the rest of the match, defeating Stanford’s Nolan Paige, 6-7, 6-3, 6-0, to seal UCLA’s win over Stanford. Read more...
Photo: Karue Sell dropped a close first set tiebreaker before storming back to win 6-7, 6-3, 6-0. The senior clinched a quarterfinal berth for No. 3-seeded UCLA after its 4-2 win over Stanford. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
