Jana Juricova stumbled out of the gate in her first national event, and the Cal women’s tennis team had mixed results in its first trip away from home at the ITA/Riviera All-American Championships in Los Angeles. The top-ranked Juricova fell to No.11 Jacqueline Cako of Arizona State in the quarterfinals Read More…
Two similarities between last weekends’ Cal Nike Invitational and this week’s ITA All American Championships are that (a) there will be tennis played and (b) Jana Juricova is the favorite to win. That’s where the commonalities end. Four players on the Cal women’s tennis team will travel to the Riviera Read More…
Jana Juricova’s senior season started with a bang during this weekend’s Cal Nike Invitational at the Hellman Tennis Complex. Juricova and new doubles partner Annet Schutting captured the doubles’ crown, and Juricova rolled through teammate Tayler Davis to win the singles’ championship. Although the doubles championship against Sacramento State was Read More…
Although the idea of Mychal Kendricks sacking Zach Maynard or the thought of Tarah Murrey landing a spike past Robin Rostratter both seem repellant to Cal fans, a similar oddity may be in store for the Cal women’s tennis team at this weekend’s Cal Nike Invitational. Four of the top Read More…
Facing Georgia in the third round of last years’ NCAA team championship, the Cal women’s tennis team, ranked No. 9 in the country with an 18-6 record, look poised to move on to the next round, where a matchup with Stanford awaited. Although the match was tied 3-3, the Bears Read More…
Jana Juricova had so much more to talk about. Just last month, Cal’s tennis star traveled to Rhode Island’s International Tennis Hall of Fame to receive her National College Player of the Year award. The first singles player in program history to receive the honor, Juricova stood shoulder-to-shoulder with 2011 Read More…
When Jana Juricova won the NCAA singles title on May 30, she capped off one of the most dominant individual seasons in the history of Cal women’s tennis. After the Bears’ third-round elimination in the NCAA Team Championships the week before, Juricova made sure she would not have another early Read More…
For all its championship banners and record win streaks, Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center may have a soft spot for Cal women’s tennis. On Monday, Jana Juricova hoisted the NCAA Singles Championships trophy — on the very same courts where the Bears’ Susie Babos lifted hers in 2006. The top-seeded Juricova Read More…
For the second consecutive year, Jana Juricova will play for the NCAA singles title. In Sunday’s semifinal match, the top-seeded Juricova defeated Stanford’s eighteenth-ranked Nicole Gibbs in a tight three-set match, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (2), on Gibbs’ home court at Taube Tennis Center. Looking for her first ever NCAA Read More…
In the first three days of the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, senior Mari Andersson produced the biggest upset of the tournament — bouncing No. 2 Maria Sanchez of USC, 6-2, 6-3, in Thursday’s second round of singles at Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center. After defeating Georgia Tech’s Jillian O’Neill in Read More…