It takes heart to win, but heart alone doesn’t guarantee a win.

“I don’t think anybody in the stadium could feel like the Bruins didn’t fight their hearts out,” said coach Billy Martin. “And that’s what I was really proud about the guys.”

Regardless of the battle the Bruins brought, No. 25 UCLA men’s tennis (2-4) couldn’t hold up Sunday afternoon. Martin’s squad was shut out 4-0 by No. 13 Stanford (5-1) at the Los Angeles Tennis Center.

With the Bruins continuing to deal with illness after their trip to Boston for ITA Kickoff Weekend last week, Martin said changes to the lineup were necessary for a second-straight match.

“Rudy (No. 50 freshman Rudy Quan) tried to play yesterday and did a good job for us, but just was feeling even worse today,” Martin said. “So I couldn’t do it to him two days in a row.”

Although Quan was absent from the courts Sunday, a familiar face returned for the Bruins’ second dual match of the season.

“I’ve been a little bit out with some injuries and an illness, so I’m very happy to be competing again and representing the Bruins,” said senior Giacomo Revelli. “And slowly I’m getting my level back to where it was.”

But Revelli didn’t get the chance to throw a point on the Bruins’ scoreboard Sunday. After he and Stanford’s Nico Godsick earned a set each on court five, Revelli led 4-3 in the third frame, but the match went unfinished as three Cardinal players had already clinched victory for their squad.

Five Bruins, including Revelli, pushed their singles matches to three sets – three of who came back from a dropped first frame – but in the end, none would come out on top.

Senior Alexander Hoogmartens and No. 13 sophomore Spencer Johnson both suffered losses. Hoogmartens was the first to exit the court, losing to Henry von der Schulenburg 6-4, 6-4 as the only Bruin who couldn’t stay on the court for a third set. Although able to extend his match to a third, Johnson followed suit, falling to No. 35 Samir Banerjee 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on court one.

After not appearing in singles action Saturday, junior Aadarsh Tripathi clinched his first set 6-4 but dropped the second 7-5. A 6-3 loss to Hudson Rivera would cement both Tripathi’s and the Bruins’ fate Sunday and with three duels to go unfinished.

Following a 6-3 loss in the first set, redshirt sophomore Emon van Loben Sels came back 6-4 in the second. While he was a single game away from a win, the consequences of Tripathi’s blunders on court four left his match unfinished at 3-6, 6-4, 5-2.

“Today was the first time I played (court) two, and I was serving for double break at five too,” van Loben Sels said. “And I think that was pretty eye opening to me, that I can push through and down like I was right there to win the match.”

The final unfinished match belonged to Revelli, 6-7(1), 7-6(3), 4-3.

“It’s hard to say how it would have gone, but I was in there and fighting till the end and feeling good,” Revelli said. “And I was in there with a good chance of winning.”

Martin said the outcome of doubles was a first in his 42 years with the program.

With the Bruins and Cardinal knotted at one set apiece, the doubles point resided in court three, where – for a second consecutive match – the tandem of junior Gianluca Ballotta and Revelli yielded the tiebreaker. This time, 7-6(4).

“Second day in a row, we lost the doubles point after having match point. In all my years here, I don’t think I’ve ever had back-to-back matches where that’s happened,” Martin said. “But, you’ve got to play them like they come.”