This past weekend the UCLA mens tennis team took part in the ITA regional tournament which took place at Pepperdine University. This is one of the biggest tournaments in college mens tennis in that it is one of the tourneys that plays a huge role in determining pre season rankings for the teams and the players individually. Teams that will competing are all from the west cost region including UCSB, USC, Arizona, San Diego, San Diego State, Hawaii, UC Riverside, and of course host school Pepperdine. This is one of the biggest tournaments of the pre season like i mentioned earlier because the winner receives an automatic bid into the National Indoor Championships which will be taking place in November.
This past weekend the tournament went underway with a lot ball grinding action. I was fortunate enough to head out and watch some of the matches that took place and must say that i was deeply impressed with what i saw. Of all the players i watched i would have to say that UCLA’s Amit Inbar had to be one of the most impressive and showed in his results. The junior from Tel Aviv Israel posted very impressive wins that took place yesterday. Unfortunately I could not make it out for the matches but was able to read about it on the UCLA Mens tennis website. Inbar posted 2 big wins on saturday to move him into the quarter finals. His first opponent was Pepperdine’s Daniel Moss who put up a great fight but in the end fell short to the number nine seeds game. Inbar then moved on to taking the number 5 seed Jaak Poldma of USC which was probably one Inbar’s biggest wins over the summer. Alot of great athletes were seen this past weekend but UCLA overall has a reputation of always making great standings in what ever tournament they take part in. Inbar is also a friend of mind so it was great to read about him advancing in the main draw of this tournament. The postings for todays play has not yet been posted but i am looking forward to reading about it when it is.
