UCLA Tennis Team Routs Pepperdine; Irvine Upsets Stanford

UCLA won five of six singles matches en route to an 8-1 rout of Pepperdine Friday in a nonconference tennis match at UCLA.

The Bruins won five of the six singles matches to clinch the win, adding to their total with a sweep of the three doubles matches. UCLA’s Dan Nahirny scored the key singles victory, upsetting Pepperdine’s Andrew Sznaidjer, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

Pepperdine (2-1) was missing one of its top singles players, Robbie Weiss, who was out because of an illness. UCLA is 5-0.

Meanwhile, defending NCAA champion Stanford was upset by UC Irvine, 5-2, in a match at Stanford that was called because of darkness. In the No. 1 singles match, sophomore Mark Kaplan upset Patrick McEnroe, the nation’s third-ranked player, 6-4, 6-4.