After four straight years of a Pac-10 singles champion wearing a Stanford uniform, the victor wore another shade of red at this year’s Pac-10 men’s tennis championships. USC’s Kaes Van’t Hof won the individual title after four days of competitive tennis.

For Stanford, the results were mixed — neither a singles player nor a doubles team advanced out of the second round. The Cardinal’s best efforts came from juniors Blake Muller and Jeff Zeller, who both advanced to the second round of singles, with Zeller also advancing to the second round of doubles.

In the Championship singles bracket, Muller posted a 6-2, 7-6 (8) first round win over Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan of Washington. Muller moved into the second round to play Pedro Zerbini of California, who upset No. 8 seed Andres Arango of Arizona State after Arango had to retire with an injury. Zerbini went on to beat Muller in the second round, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

Zeller beat Patrick Brogan of Arizona State, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in the first round but fell to Daniel Gilner of USC in the second, 7-5, 6-3.

Zeller teamed up with senior Phil Kao in the Invitational doubles bracket and won the first match, 8-2, over Ahmed Ismail and Miller of UCLA. But Martin Kildahl and Tobi Obenaus of Oregon would end Zeller and Kao’s run in a close 9-8 (10-8) defeat.

Sophomores Kevin Kaiser and Paul Morrissey also won their opening round matches on Thursday in the Invitational bracket. Kaiser’s was an easy win, 6-1, 6-2 over Arizona’s Nathan Cochrane. Morrissey also won in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3 over Stephen Wiechert of Oregon. Morrissey then fell to Bozhidar Katsarov from California, 6-3, 7-5, while Kaiser was defeated by Josh Miller of UCLA, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Kaiser and Morrissey teamed up in doubles and won their first match over Jack Marsh and Murilo Souza of Arizona State, 8-4. Kaiser and Morrissey lost in the second round to Cal’s Jonathan Dahan and Katsarov, 8-3.

Freshmen Ted Kelly and Greg Hirshman both fell in their opening round matches, while sophomore Richard Wire had his nine-match win streak stopped by Jeremy Drean of UCLA, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2. Kao also lost his first round match in the Championship singles bracket to the No. 4 seed, Claudio Christen from Arizona.

The Championship singles semifinals were an entire Trojan affair, as top-seeded Farah, No. 2 seed Van’t Hof, Gary Sacks and Jaak Poldma made up the final four players. Farah and Van’t Hof went on to play for the title. Farah and Van’t Hof, the No. 2 ranked team in the nation, also won the doubles championship together for a clean USC sweep.

Bruch and Stanford’s top player, freshman Alex Clayton, missed this year’s tournament due to injury. It was in the best interest of the team that they sit out this weekend in order to be healthy for the NCAA tournament. The Cardinal now awaits the announcement of the tournament’s draws, which will be released tomorrow.