UCLA freshman Kyle McPhillips recorded the most lopsided victory in Ojai Pac-12 Conference Tournament individual women’s singles history as she beat Stanford freshman Krista Hardebeck, 6-1, 6-0, to win the 113th edition of the event played at Libbey Park on Sunday.
It was a big weekend for the Bruins as the men captured the Pac-12 dual-match team title on with a 4-2 win over USC on Saturday. A former UCLA Bruin captured the Women’s Open title at The Ojai as Noelle Hickey defeated former Top 40 WTA player Ashley Harkleroad of Malibu, 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 and the $1,800 first-place prize money.
Future Bruin Mackenzie McDonald, 19, from Piedmont, Calif., won the Men’s Open singles title with a 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1 win over former ATP player Lester Cook of Sherman Oaks. McDonald won $5,000 in prize money. In Pac-12 women’s doubles final, Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria downed UCLA’s Courtney Dolehide and Pamela Montez, 6-3, 6-3, to repeat the title they won last year.
In the Men’s Open doubles, the No. 4-seeded team of Cook and Zack Fleishman upended the top-seeded team of Artem Sitak and Dennis Lajola, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
In the CCCAA Men’s Community College Singles State Championship final, No. 1 seeded Sam Bertram of Fresno City beat Ventura’s No. 7 Vitor Mendes, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0. In the women’s state final, Santa Barbara City College’s Bruna Magalhaes beat Fullerton’s Sarah Anderson, 6-2, 7-6
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Tennis Canada announced on Wednesday that Eugenie Bouchard is the winner of the 2018 Excellence Awards in the Female Player of the Year and Singles Player of the Year categories.
Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia hits a forehand to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia during her second round match at the Nature Valley International tennis tournament in Eastbourne, Great Britain, on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.