Setting expectations is one thing. Meeting them is another The goal for the Cal women’s tennis team is to win a NCAA championship come May. But for them, the run to a championship already started in the fall. Beginning the fall season with two players and two doubles teams nationally Read More…
Faced with defending set point after set point in multiple tiebreakers throughout the weekend, Anett Schutting dug deep and found her focus to win each critical point. It was that kind of a weekend for Schutting. The junior on Cal Women’s tennis team would come from behind in multiple rounds Read More…
Hoping to have saved their best for last, Zsofi Susanyi and Anett Schutting will face off against the nation’s finest tennis players this weekend. No. 5 Susanyi and No. 22 Schutting of the Cal women’s tennis team will take part in the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship in Flushing Meadows, Read More…
After rolling through the first six rounds, the Cal women’s tennis team finally hit a Stanford road block at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships at Stanford on Tuesday. Despite a dominating display from Oct. 19 to 23, Cal ultimately fell short of taking first place and securing an automatic bid Read More…
For the Cal women’s tennis team, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Starting Friday and concluding on Tuesday, the Bears will travel to Stanford to compete in the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships. Whoever takes the crown will secure an automatic bid to the second grand slam of the fall season, the Read More…
When the champion of the season’s first collegiate grand slam was crowned on Sunday in Pacific Palisades, Calif., the Cal women’s tennis team was 300 miles away. After a disappointing showing at Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, head coach Amanda Augustus, sophomore Zsofi Susanyi, junior Anett Schutting, and seniors Tayler Davis and Read More…
Competing against a tournament field comprised entirely of All-Americans, the nation’s top ranked players will compete this week for the first grand slam title of the 2012 season. The ITA/Riviera All-American Championships begins on Tuesday and concludes Sunday at the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. The talent is Read More…
Despite facing a field of 80-plus players, Cal women’s tennis team will most likely be forced to compete against each other in their first tournament of the 2012 fall season. It’s fitting, therefore, that the Cal Nike Invitational will take place at home in Berkeley. The tournament begins Friday and Read More…
The race for the Pac-12 women’s tennis title is on. Here is a handy guide — complete with predictions — for following the first stage of the round robin this weekend. Friday, April 13 No. 1 UCLA at No. 10 California 1:30 p.m., Hellman Tennis Center, Berkeley, Calif. When the Read More…
This July marks five years since Jan Brogan, the winningest coach in Cal tennis history, handed the reins of the women’s tennis program to her former star, Amanda Augustus. Since the coaching change – the team’s first since 1978 – Augustus has piloted the team to five consecutive successful seasons, Read More…
