NCAA Men’s Tennis : Weiss Stops UCLA Sweep of Finals With Singles Win

Top-seeded Robby Weiss, the lone Pepperdine player in an National Collegiate Athletic Assn. tennis tournament finale packed with Bruins, defeated UCLA’s Brian Garrow, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, Saturday to win the singles title at the University of Georgia.

Garrow then teamed with Patrick Galbraith to defeat teammates Buff Farrow and Robert Bierens, 6-3, 6-2, and win the doubles championship.

Weiss became the first Pepperdine player to win an NCAA singles title.

“I feel a combination of elation and relief,” said the senior, who made the round of 16 two years ago but did not qualify for the championships last year. “I’ve been wanting this for four years, but this was the first time I had a real good shot.

“It feels good to have pulled it out. I felt like I let up a little bit in the second set. I was waiting for him to make mistakes, which he didn’t. The third set, I got a little psyched up and tried to take it to him, and I think I accomplished that.”

Garrow became the first player to play in both the singles and doubles championships since Erick Iskersky of Trinity in 1979. Iskersky lost the singles but was on the winning doubles team.

It was UCLA’s 10th NCAA doubles championship. The last one came in 1978 when John Austin and Bruce Nichols won the title.