Jason Netter Wins Pac-10 Men’s Title

UCLA’s Jason Netter, perhaps college’s most aptly named tennis player, defeated Stanford’s Alex O’Brien, 6-3, 6-2, to win the Pacific 10 men’s singles title Sunday.

Netter, a 21-year-old sophomore, was a former player at the Bollettieri Academy in Bradenton, Fla., before his family moved to Beverly Hills. Netter did not play tennis last summer and instead worked as a production assistant with his grandfather, Doug Netter, who owns a film production company in Hollywood.

If film work interests Netter, his tennis fortunes are getting more of his attention. “I’m really into it now,” he said. “This summer, it’s going to be all tennis.”

Trevor Kronemann withstood a late rally to beat San Jose State’s Mike Chinchiolo, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), and lead UC Irvine to its fourth consecutive Big West men’s title.

Chinchiolo won four games in a row in the third set to erase a 5-2 deficit before Kronemann broke him at 6-5 to send the set into a tiebreaker.

The Anteaters won five of the nine flights to win the team title with 51 points. Fresno State was second with 45 points.