The top three players on the Cal men’s tennis team will join the ranks of the nation’s best at the NCAA championships this week. The Bears will send two singles players — juniors Ben McLachlan and Campbell Johnson — and one doubles tandem — the Cal pair of Johnson and Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team experienced a dose of deja vu this past week at the NCAAs. The Bears ended their NCAA team championship run the same way they ended it last year — with a Sweet 16 loss to Virginia. At the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Urbana, Ill., Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team finds itself in an all-too-familiar situation to start off the NCAA round of 16. Just like last May, the Bears had just clinched their NCAA round-of-32 match to secure their position in the Sweet 16 rankings. The Cal squad topped both Florida State and Denver Read More…
No matter what situation this weekend threw at the Cal men’s tennis team, the Bears managed to handle it. And they handled it well. For the third year in a row, the Bears clinched their round-of-32 match to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16. But for the first time in Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team seems to have Lady Luck on its side this year. Out of all the first- and second-round brackets the Bears could have been placed in for the NCAA team championships, the Cal squad was selected to compete in a bracket where it had already defeated Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team was on fire in the past few weeks. The Bears had not lost a dual match in a month, and they entered the Pac-12 Championships riding a five-game win streak. But Cal couldn’t hold on to its winning streak forever. As expected, the third-seeded Bears Read More…
The Cal men’s tennis team has one last chance this week to jump back into the nation’s top 16. But its chance may be riding on a hypothetical matchup in the semifinals against No. 4 USC. This week, from April 25 to 28, the No. 18 Bears will compete at Read More…
Winning the doubles point gives the victors a crucial advantage going into singles play. But pointwise, it’s still just one of seven. To win the match, the doubles victor still needs to win three singles points. On Saturday afternoon at the Taube Tennis Center in Stanford, Calif., the Cal men’s Read More…
A victory against Stanford this weekend will not guarantee the No. 18 Cal men’s tennis team a place in the top 16. Losing the match will most likely eliminate any chance of it. So why is the top 16 so important? At the beginning of the NCAA championships in May, Read More…
All eyes were on the top court as Cal junior Ben McLachlan fiercely battled Arizona’s Kieren Thompson in the last match of the day on Saturday. After McLachlan took the first set, Thompson fought back to clinch a back-and-forth second set. The two traded points in a 10-point pro-set tiebreaker, Read More…
