Freshmen to play leading role in Bears’ trip to L.A.

A coup has taken place in women’s collegiate tennis. First-year players throughout the country have unseated the old guard and will likely determine the national pecking order as the dual season continues. In an indication of the strength of the vanguard, four freshmen were placed in the top 10 in Read More…

Women's Tennis, 9/30/11

Bears best Broncos after two rescheduled rainouts

The start of the season proffers the Sisyphean dream of perfection to all athletes; pushing aside context and history, the mind of the competitor strays from the bounds of rationality and wanders to thoughts of endless conquests without a single failure. Wednesday afternoon in Santa Clara, Calif., where the Cal Read More…

Senior Jana Juricova dropped only one set in singles in the weekend tournament and swept her opponents on the top court.

Cal annihilates regional opponents after two-month layoff

The Cal women’s tennis team started off the new year with a tyrannizing performance in this weekend’s Cal Winter Invitational. The Invitational, played in the friendly confines of the Hellman Tennis Complex, was an unadulterated massacre as the No. 8 Bears overmatched Cal Poly, Fresno State and Saint Mary’s over Read More…

Cal’s depth on display in weekend’s tournament

Coming into this weekend’s Cal Nike Invitational, the Cal women’s tennis team was sitting pretty. Four of the top five seeded players were Bears, including the top three – Jana Juricova, Tayler Davis and Annie Goransson. Although this is in part due to the lack of other top teams competing Read More…