Bad weather puts a damper on m. tennis

Published: Monday, March 6, 1995

By Sarah Harrison

The No. 4 UCLA men's tennis team entered the Pacific Court Doubles tournament at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club in hopes of practicing its doubles game, however, the Bruins were only able to play one full day of tennis before they were rained out and forced to go home.

UCLA entered the doubles teams of Robert Janecek-Eric Lin, Eric Taino-Justin Gimelstob and Heath Montgomery-Matt Breen. Bruin Loren Peters also played in the tournament with Ted Williams, a former Arizona player.

"You want to keep the guys sharp, you don't want them to be too relaxed out there," Martin said. "When they walk off the court they can head to the beach or be a little independent."

The Bruins, however, found that it was not only the weather that put a damper on their weekend expectations. Everyone had a bye for the first match except for Montgomery and Breen who beat the University of Pennsylvania's Brian O'Grady and Marc Sisicaro 6-1, 6-0. Breen and Montgomery won their next match but lost in three sets to Stanford's Ricky Becker and Jim Thomas 6-7, 7-5, 6-3.

The Bruins' No. 1 doubles team, Janecek and Lin, did a little better, making it to the quarter finals. Their loss came to USC's Lukas Hovorka and Adam Peterson in three sets 3-6, 7-6, 6-3.

Both the tandems of Taino- Gimelstob and Peters-Williams lost their first match and entered the consolation bracket. Taino and Gimelstob made it to the semi-finals, where they were scheduled to play Scott Kintz and Trent Miller at 9:00 am Sunday.