This post was updated March 4 at 10:09 p.m.

Weekend getaways to the beach don’t usually culminate in championships.

That is, unless it’s the Bruins.

In a break from its dual-match campaign, UCLA men’s tennis participated in the 136th annual Pacific Coast Men’s Doubles Championship tournament at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club from Friday to Sunday. Alexander Hoogmartens and Giacomo Revelli won the championship, winning six consecutive matches against a pool of 84 doubles pairs from at least 13 schools.

After dropping the first set 6-4 to Pepperdine’s Lasse Poertner and Aleksa Pisaric, the two seniors were down 6-1 in the second set before they stormed back to win the frame 7-6(8), ultimately capturing the third set 6-3 to secure the title.

“The guys came back from the depths of defeat,” said coach Billy Martin. “They really showed a competitive fight to win the finals.”

The Bruins have dropped their last five doubles points on the dual-match trail, and Martin said he took the opportunity in La Jolla to experiment. None of the four tandems UCLA sent to the tournament had previously competed together in ITA-sanctioned play – including eventual champions Hoogmartens and Revelli.

Martin added that with No. 13 sophomore Spencer Johnson out indefinitely with injury, there is added urgency to finding some effective doubles pairings.

UCLA has participated in the tournament for more than a decade – part of a tradition upheld by Martin. The coach said the event gives the Bruins a break from the intense dual-match trail and allows the team to focus on doubles, calling the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club a “home away from home.”

“It’s (the tournament is) definitely one I look forward to every year, and I think I played it every year,” Revelli said. “I also feel very, very blessed to have my name up there with some of the all-time greats … with names like (former Bruins) Arthur Ashe, Marcos Giron and plenty of others.”

Freshman Cassius Chinlund, who is redshirting this season, teamed up with assistant coach Wil Martin, Billy Martin’s son, and advanced to the round of 16.

“It was a ton of fun. … I mean, what tournament allows you to play with your coach, for God’s sake?” Chinlund said. “What a great experience. … We got a couple wins against some good teams, a couple D1 teams, and we almost beat the semifinalists.”

But the weekend wasn’t all tennis.

Revelli said the trip to La Jolla allowed the team to relax and bond, while Chinlund added that he appreciated the change of environment and opportunity to share meals and time off the court with his teammates – something difficult to schedule during the week.

Meanwhile, Rudy Quan, accompanied by associate head coach Rikus de Villiers, headed to compete in the BNP Paribas Open qualifiers in Indian Wells, California. As a wild card, the freshman defeated No. 21 seed and world No. 135 Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4, 7-5 in the opening round Monday. Quan will face world No. 349 Yosuke Watanuki in the second round.

All in all, Martin said the weekend of active relaxation will be pivotal in moving past the Bruins’ early-season woes and current four-match losing streak, especially as they head into the start of conference play.

“Quite honestly, I think they deserve not relaxation, totally, but a little change of pace,” Martin said. “All of us had some different things this week that will recharge our battery and allow us to forget what’s happened so far because things haven’t gone our way. We’ve been fighting hard, competing hard, losing some really close battles. I hope we can erase the blackboard and start over here.”

UCLA will begin its inaugural Big Ten campaign against Indiana at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Friday.