In the most pivotal match of his tennis career, Nick Meister decided to charge.

The Student Activities Center is full of shrieks at 9 p.m. A rambunctious group of six is having a club meeting, and enjoying it like they’re in a food-less Olive Garden commercial.

UCLA’s Nick Meister and Adrien Puget will compete in the NCAA men’s singles tournament starting today in Athens, Ga.

There was too much electricity in the air for the rivals UCLA and USC to finish their semifinal match outdoors.

The No. 4-seeded UCLA men’s tennis team opens Sweet 16 play Friday in Athens, Ga.

UCLA’s Wilson “˜Extra Duty’ practice tennis balls are worn out and well on their way to becoming fluorescent slippers for school desks and fetch toys for Dobermans.

Fresh off splitting two matches with the No. 1 team in the country, the No. 5 UCLA men’s tennis team has 10 days to prepare for the NCAA Tournament.

Eight days after the UCLA men’s tennis team staged a coup d’etat in Los Angeles, ousting the perennial champions USC, the Trojans grabbed back bragging rights.

On Friday, UCLA beat the best college tennis team in the land, and there wasn’t pandemonium.

Someone snapped a team picture on an iPhone, and everyone smiled, but the celebration for winning the Pac-12 title, and snapping USC’s 45-match winning streak was tempered.

“It’s important to beat (USC), but this is not the defining match,” freshman Marcos Giron said.

For tennis aficionados, reading the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s rule manual is like reading David Foster Wallace: you don’t, and you lie about it.