By Chris Umpierre Daily Bruin Staff After Jan-Michael Gambill’s first-round match on Wednesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Tennis Center turned into something out of a Backstreet Boys concert as a group of young girls rushed the 23-year-old phenom asking for autographs and pictures. Read more...

By Chris Umpierre Daily Bruin Staff First Gustavo Kuerten, then Andre Agassi, and now Marcelo Rios. All have made early exits from the once star-studded Mercedes-Benz Cup. Read more...

By Chris Umpierre Daily Bruin Staff Wayne Ferreira, like most professional tennis players, is used to it being quiet during his matches. That wasn’t the case, however, on Tuesday, during day two of the Mercedes-Benz Cup, as some 250 kids with their boisterous personalities invaded the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Kaiser Permanente Kids Day. Read more...

By Greg Lewis Daily Bruin Senior Staff It took Michael Chang 57 minutes to win the first set of his opening match Tuesday night, and only 33 more too finish off Australian qualifier Paul Kilderry 6-3, 6-2. Read more...

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I picked up the San Francisco Chronicle on the first day of the Olympic trials, eager to see whether my local paper included any tidbits about the UCLA athletes I’d been covering for the past seven months. Read more...

By Jeff Agase Daily Bruin Contributor The star-studded Mercedes-Benz Cup at UCLA’s Los Angeles Tennis Center got a little dimmer Monday, as top seed and fan favorite Andre Agassi was forced to withdraw from the men’s singles draw. Read more...