Cal tennis player Alice Duranteau, a third-year international student from Paris, France, talks about her journey to UC Berkeley and her struggle to juggle her academic work load and athletic commitments.
When Alice Duranteau sees a tennis player preparing to serve, she sees more than a person with a racket and a ball. She sees a complex machine at work. She sees a network of tissues, muscles, bones and tendons working together in harmony. Alice is amazed at how each individual Read More…
The Cal women’s tennis team usually plays two matches every weekend, but when it travels south to take on San Diego State on Sunday, the Bears will be in the abnormal position of only playing once. The situation is so rare that senior Tayler Davis does not remember it having Read More…
Coming off a disappointing loss to Stanford and with top player Zsofi Susanyi still out due to injury, no one knew what to expect from the Cal women’s tennis team last weekend. Nobody could have expected the dominating performance that the team turned in. Cal dropped only three sets in Read More…
On Friday, the Bears dominated Sacramento State in a 7-0 sweep, but was upset by rival Stanford, 6-1, the next day in Palo Alto. The loss marks the seventh time in a row that the Bears fell to the Cardinal, dating back to April of 2009. With the loss, Cal falls to 5-4 as Stanford improves to 5-2 on the season. Read More…
The No. 9 Cal women’s tennis team advanced to the round of 16 at NCAAs for the sixth consecutive year, easily taking down Pepperdine 4-0 in the second round on Saturday at Hellman Tennis Complex. The Bears (19-6) will make a much farther trip than their upcoming opponents with a Read More…
After weeks of fevered jockeying for the conference title, the Cal women’s tennis team will retreat to Ojai, Calif. – tucked in a valley 55 miles northwest of Los Angeles – for the Pac-12 Championships in singles and doubles. Ranked eighth in the nation, the Bears (17-6, 8-2 in the Read More…
There may be myriad of benefits of the Pac-12’s conference realignment, but parity in women’s tennis is surely not one of them. The No. 10 Cal women’s tennis team gave a rough introduction to conference newcomers Colorado and Utah in two dominant victories, giving the Bears a 2-0 record in Read More…
The Cal women’s tennis team will attempt to avoid an early season slip-up against Santa Clara in its first dual match of the year Friday. The Bears have been dominant thus far in the nascent spring season, as the team posted a combined 33-1 record in the Cal Winter Invitational Read More…
MORAGA, Calif. — Experience proved not to be necessary in the Saint Mary’s Invitational, as first-time Cal competitors were the highlight of the weekend. Sophomore Alice Duranteau won the second-tier singles tournament, working her way through five matches to nab the trophy. Duranteau is now 15-1 since April, beginning the Read More…
