No. Nine Cal Hosts Big Slam In Regular-Season Finale

No. Nine Cal Hosts Big Slam In Regular-Season Finale

BERKELEY – The 9th-ranked California girls's tennis team hosts the ordinary-season finale vs. Third-ranked Stanford in Friday's Big Slam at the Hellman Tennis Complex. Prior to the Big Slam, the Golden Bears will have a good time the careers of Valentina Ivanov and Hannah Viller Moeller of their Senior Day ceremony.

 

The Big Slam is Cal's remaining home in shape of the everyday season, though the Bears ought to host more than one rounds of the upcoming NCAA Championship given their achievement this season.

 

Friday will also determine the regular-season champion of the Pac-12 Conference. If Cal defeats the Cardinal, it would proportion the everyday-season identify with whichever Los Angeles team – UCLA or USC – wins that healthy among rivals also on Friday. Typically, the group that wins the everyday-season conference name also earns the top seed within the next Pac-12 Championship. But if Cal ties UCLA or USC for the identify, head-to-head consequences among the Bears and their co-champion might decide seeding inside the convention tournament. Cal defeated UCLA, 4-three, on March 30 at Hellman however lost to USC, four-three, on March 31 in Berkeley.

 

Match Details

 

No. 9 Cal (16-four, eight-1 Pac-12) vs No. 3 Stanford (18-2, 7-1)

When: Friday, April 19, 1:30 p.M. PT

Where: Hellman Tennis Complex, Berkeley, Calif.

Watch: Livestream

Scores: StatBroadcast

 

Last Time: Cal Sweeps Washington Teams

Cal received at 26th-ranked Washington remaining Friday and routed Washington State on Saturday to move 2-0 on its journey to the Evergreen State.

 

Against the Huskies, Katja Wiersholm clinched the five-2 victory, with the Seattle-region product defeating the 88th-ranked Alexia Jacobs, 6-4, 6-1, at court docket-two singles. Jessica Alsola clinched the 6-1 rout of WSU day after today, with the 72nd-ranked Cal junior topping Yura Nakagawa, 6-four, 6-4, on court docket 3.

 

Last Time Vs. Stanford

Twenty-7th-ranked Cal fell to 7th-ranked Stanford, 6-1, on The Farm in 2023. Cal star Haley Giavara won in her last Big Slam, defeating sixteenth-ranked Connie Ma, 6-four, 6-1.

 

Poll Position

Cal remained at No. Nine on this week's ITA poll after beating Washington and Washington State. The duo of Hannah Viller Moeller and Mao Mushika is ranked twenty sixth in doubles. In singles, four Bears are ranked – No. 38 Viller Moeller, No forty five Katja Wiersholm, No. 49 Valentina Ivanov and No. Eighty one Jessica Alsola.

 

Scouting the Bears

Valentina Ivanov is lower back in Berkeley after playing for New Zealand in the Billie Jean King Cup final week

With a 15-7 singles record, Ivanov has long past three-1 in her last 4 suits at court-one singles

Named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on March 26, Ivanov has a 17-6 doubles report, which includes a 14-four mark with Jessica Alsola

Two of Ivanov's singles wins clinched Cal victories over San Diego and Colorado

Katja Wiersholm advanced to twenty-five-five in singles and 18-11 in doubles last week

Wiersholm has clinched a total of 4 Cal wins, such as latest end result at Washington, the four-zero season-opening win over Illinois, a 6-1 thrashing of Utah and a 4-3 win over UCLA

The junior additionally won the top-flight singles name on the Cal Fall Invitational and superior to the quarterfinals at regionals

Mao Mushika is tied with Wiersholm for the team lead in clinching wins on the season and has a 24-8 singles document

The first-12 months Bear has clinched a 4-three thriller over No. 3 Pepperdine, a 6-1 rout of Hawaii, a four-1 win over No. 21 Washington at country wide indoors and a 5-2 win over No. Forty one Arizona in the Pac-12 opener

Mushika additionally has partnered with Hannah Viller Moeller all season to post a 25-nine doubles report

The duo gained the name of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and reached the spherical of 16 within the ITA National Fall Championships

Viller Moeller has a 21-18 singles record after splitting her fits in Washington

In the fall, the senior gained the singles name inside the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and reached the singles quarterfinals of the ITA National Fall Championships

In the autumn, Jessica Alsola (now 22-15) reached the comfort final of the ITA National Fall Championships, superior through the qualifying rounds to the singles predominant draw of the ITA All-American Championships – in which she reached the quarterfinals – and reached the round of 16 within the ITA Northwest Regional Championships

Also 25-eight in doubles, Alsola is 14-four (such as thirteen-4 at court docket- doubles) while partnered with senior Valentina Ivanov

Lan Mi, who published a 16-in shape win streak in singles between mid-October and overdue January, has clinched three Cal wins – a five-2 win at San Diego State, a 6-1 rout of UCSB and, inside the ITA Kickoff Weekend at Oklahoma, a four-three win over No. 16 Oklahoma that certified the Bears for the ITA National Team Indoor Championship

A junior who has a group-great singles report of 37-five, Mi won the top-flight singles crown at the Saint Mary's Fall Invitational in October

Along with Wiersholm's four clinching wins, Mushika's four, Mi's 3, Ivanov's  and Alsola's , Cal's other clinching win got here courtesy of Berta Passola Folch, who secured Cal's four-three end result at No. 30 Arizona State

A product of Barcelona, Spain, Passola Folch – who is received seven of her remaining eight singles fits – has a 20-7 singles document

This season marks Cal's final run inside the Pac-12, as the Bears will compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) starting next 12 months

Cal is considered one of 9 Pac-12 groups ranked in Tuesday's ITA crew poll

Cal Athletics Hall of Famer and -time NCAA doubles champion Amanda Augustus – the 2021 Pac-12 Coach of the Year and 5-time ITA Northwest Region Coach of the Year – is in her seventeenth yr as head teach at her alma mater

Assistant teach and previous Cal men's tennis participant Sean Hill is in his 2nd 12 months on the Cal workforce

Scouting the Cardinal

Like Cal, Stanford comes into the Big Slam having won four immediately dual suits

In the Cardinal's most current fits, it received 7-zero at Washington State and 6-1 at No. 26 Washington

In singles, Connie Ma is ranked tenth, Alexandra Yepifanova is ranked 32nd and Angelica Blake is ranked thirty fifth

The doubles pair of Ma and Yepifanova is ranked twenty fourth

Lele Forood is in her twenty fourth season as head instruct of Stanford

Next Time

Cal performs inside the Pac-12 Championship from April 24-27 in Ojai.