LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – The Yale men's tennis team, ranked No. 53, gave No. 34 UCLA all it could handle. The Bruins, though, escaped with a 4-3 victory.
 
Yale won the doubles point behind victories from Theo Dean and Aidan Reilly and Eric Li and Michael Sun.
 
In singles, Vignesh Gogineni earned a hard-fought 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 victory in the No. 2 position. Sun also won a close match at No. 4. Sun won the first set 7-5, lost the second set in a tie breaker and then won the match in a super tiebreaker that went to 14-12.
 
Next up for the Bulldogs is UCSB on Wednesday.
 
 
UCLA 4, Yale 3

Doubles
1. Timothy Li/Patrick Zahraj (UCLA) vs. #79 Vignesh Gogineni/Renaud Lefevre (Yale) 5-4, unfinished
2. Theo Dean/Aidan Reilly (Yale) def. Giacomo Revelli/Aadarsh Tripathi (UCLA) 6-1
3. Eric Li/Michael Sun (Yale) def. Jeffrey Fradkin/Stefan Leustian (UCLA) 6-3
 
Singles
1. Patrick Zahraj (UCLA) def. Theo Dean (Yale) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1
2. Vignesh Gogineni (Yale) def. Giacomo Revelli (UCLA) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
3. Aadarsh Tripathi (UCLA) def. Luke Neal (Yale) 7-5, 6-4
4. Michael Sun (Yale) def. Azuma Visaya (UCLA) 7-5, 6-7 (7-9), 1-0 (14-12)
5. Gianluca Ballotta (UCLA) def. Aidan Reilly (Yale) 7-6 (7-3), 7-5
6. Stefan Leustian (UCLA) def. Walker Oberg (Yale) 6-0, 7-5