The Bears will also be bringing a good dose of Cal spirit with them.

The team has a tradition unlike any other — when the postseason rolls around, players spray-paint their tennis shoes blue and gold in honor of the university they play for and represent.

“Everyone kind of puts their own spin on it,” says coach Amanda Augustus, whose kicks are also a bright blue and gold. “But it has to be school colors.”

Some choose an electric gold that mirrors the state’s California poppies paired with a true and bright Yale blue — the two sources that the University of California borrowed its colors from. Other players are a little more subtle, preferring a metallic gold that doesn’t catch the eye as much but still stands out on the courts of Hellman Tennis Complex.

Some players take their Cal spirit beyond their footwear. Sophomore Zsofi Susanyi and freshman Klara Fabikova had blue streaks in their normally blond hair last weekend. Each also painted her nails in the university’s colors, alternating blue and gold for each finger.

Even the athletic tape that the players wore this weekend — normally green or pink — was shades of either blue or gold.

But the longest-standing tradition is definitely the shoes. Augustus says that the tradition predates her time as a player for Cal in the late ’90s. Her coach back then — the legendary Jan Brogan, who led the Bears to 25 NCAA appearances — also couldn’t pinpoint an exact date.

“I would be guessing as I coached for 29 years,” Brogan says. “But I can pin it down to the Lisa Albano era.”

Lisa Albano played for Cal from 1988 to 1992, placing the shoe-painting tradition at more than 20 years old.

Augustus carries on the tradition, having her players lay cardboard down on the track in Edwards Stadium so that they can spray paint their shoes. They have to paint a few weeks before the postseason begins, or else the shoes won’t be dry in time.

But the Bears haven’t had to worry about jinxing their postseason chances or painting the shoes prematurely yet — in Augustus’ six seasons as head coach, her teams haven’t missed the postseason once.

Cal’s rivals have caught on to the tradition and have started doing something similar, but the players maintain that the idea originated in Berkeley.

“We did it first,” says sophomore Cecilia Estlander. “USC and UCLA have kind of started doing it, but we did it first.”

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But not anymore.

In two of their last three matches of the regular season, the Bears had to make a comeback in singles after dropping doubles matches and finding themselves in early 1-0 deficits. This included doubles losses to opponents like Arizona, who weren’t strong enough to even make the 64-team NCAA tournament.

The Bears’ top duo of Lynn Chi and Anett Schutting seemed to be clicking earlier in the year, when they won five straight doubles matches. But down the stretch, the duo was only 3-4 in their last 7 doubles matches of the season.

Match after match, it seemed like the Bears could only hang on in doubles by a thread and would often have to use their strong singles play to bail themselves out later.

But with their drumming of Auburn, 4-0, on Saturday at Hellman Tennis Complex, that may no longer be the case.

It was no surprise that No. 8 Cal cruised through Stony Brook, 4-0, on Friday. But Auburn, the No. 25 team in the nation, was supposed to give Cal a tougher challenge in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Instead, the Bears dominated and earned a trip to the Sweet 16.

Unlike in their usual sluggish starts in the regular season, the Bears exploded in doubles against Auburn. Tayler Davis and Kelly Chui jumped to an 8-1 win on court No. 3, and Anett Schutting and Lynn Chi — the same duo that was struggling just a few weeks ago — beat the No. 10 doubles team in the country with an 8-3 win on the top court to earn the doubles point for the Bears.

“I thought we were solid,” said Cal coach Amanda Augustus. “And then, on court No. 3, we had a really, really good day. That got us off to a great start.”

The Bears carried that momentum over into singles, where the Cal freshmen rocked Hellman Tennis Complex. Lynn Chi raced to a 6-0, 6-1 finish on court No. 4 to give Cal its second point of the match. Meanwhile, Cal’s other freshman, Klara Fabikova, dominated her opponent in a 6-1, 6-1 route.

The Bears needed just one more point to put the match away.

Seniors Tayler Davis and Annie Goransson were each up five games in their second sets, needing just one more game from either to seal the match for the Bears.

“Me and Annie were kind of in a race to see who would finish first,” Davis said. “(Assistant coach) Cordell was sorta joking with me to see who would finish first.”

Davis was able to beat Goransson in their race to finish off the opponent first, winning 6-3 on her court to give the Bears the four points needed to end the match.

It was a fitting end for the senior captain’s last match in Berkeley.

“I think a couple of them had a look up at the scoreboard and may have deferred to their senior captains a little bit,” Augustus said, smiling. “This is her big day.”

Watch an interview with co-captain Tayler Davis here

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And 16 wins and 5 losses later, the Cal women’s tennis team could be in a position to do just that. As the No. 8 team in the country, the Bears earned the right to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament.

And though they were only able to muster a second place finish in the Pac-12, the Bears feel good about accomplishing the goal Schutting set three months ago.

“I like our chances,” said freshman Lynn Chi on Wednesday. “Hopefully, we can go all the way. I like our chances for that.”

The Bears (16-5) are prepared to steamroll through this first leg of the tournament. They play their first opponent, Stony Brook, on Friday at 1 p.m. at the Hellman Tennis Complex in Berkeley.

Cal knows little about Stony Brook (12-4), a university smaller than UC Berkeley that is located in Long Island, N.Y. Stony Brook did not play a single ranked opponent all year and only made the tournament by winning the American East Conference.

Should the Bears beat the Seawolves, they will go on to face the winner of the other first-round matchup — either St. Mary’s or Auburn — at noon on Saturday. No. 21 Auburn just missed the cutoff for hosting the first two rounds of the NCAAs, as only the top-16 squads gain home court advantage. Meanwhile the Bears crushed Saint Mary’s in January in a 7-0 route.

As the only Goliath in a first round full of Davids, the biggest challenge for the Bears will be adjusting to the slightly different rules between the tournament and the regular season. Though matches are the same format, they end as soon as a team clinches the match with four points, so some players will not go on to finish their individual match.

“We just play to four, so when we clinch the match, it just stops,” said Cal coach Amanda Augustus. “It’s a little bit of an adjustment mentally to not lose concentration if someone is up and about to win. (They have to be) keeping attention on their own court.”

While the Bears have made it to at least the sweet 16 in the last six years, they are not getting ahead of themselves.

“You have to take it match by match,” Augustus said. “You can’t assume anything at this time of year, because all these teams have played a lot of tennis, and they wouldn’t be in the tournament if they didn’t have a good season.”

For Cal, the real advantage to hosting the beginning of the tournament is not having home court advantage or being the highest seed — it’s being home for finals week. While schools like Stony Brook and Auburn have to make the long trek to Berkeley this week, the Bears will be able to sleep in their own beds at night.

“It’s huge,” Augustus said. “Especially with finals on the horizon and all their office hours, review sessions, tutoring, papers and all this stuff they got. So they don’t have to deal with that too much — until hopefully next week.”

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They leave in a much different situation.

Zsofi Susanyi, the No. 5 player in the nation, left her third singles match of the weekend with an injury. Susanyi was battling a hip flexor injury all spring that kept her bouncing in and out of the lineup from week to week.

The details and extent of her injury are unknown at this time — she may have reaggravated her hip or be suffering from something else entirely. But if she misses significant time, it will be a huge blow to a Cal squad that had just begun to find its groove with its star player back in the lineup.

Cal also had two other players in the main singles tournament — Anett Schutting and Klara Fabikova. The two met in the third round of matches, with Schutting taking down the freshman Fabikova, 6-2, 6-4.

Schutting then advanced to take on Krista Hardebeck of Stanford in the semifinals but lost, 6-4, 6-2.

Schutting also competed with her partner Lynn Chi in the doubles championships, where the story was similar. In that tournament, Schutting and Chi were also able to advance to the semifinals but lost to USC’s top duo of Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria, who were the top-seeded team coming into the the tournament.

The bright spot of the tournament for the Bears came in the doubles invitational tournament — essentially the tournament for the doubles teams aren’t able to make the main event.

In that tournament, the doubles duo of Annie Goransson and Cecilia Estlander were able to reach the finals. Estlander has rarely played in the spring due to injuries, and the duo had never actually played together before, but they were able to shine.

To get to the finals, Goransson and Estlander had to defeat the top-ranked duo of USC’s Gabi Desimone and Danielle Lao in a 9-7 thriller.

After that, they quickly advanced to the finals and faced the third-seeded duo of Calli Craig and Sarah Pham out of Utah. This match went to the wire. Both teams traded points back and forth until Goransson and Estlander fell 9-8(5) in a tiebreaker.

With that loss, the Bears fell short of their goal of taking home a championship in both of the tournaments.

But the real loss is losing Susanyi. Several Cal players admitted that finally having her back at full strength gave them a boost in confidence. Their confidence has to be taking a hit with Susanyi out yet again.

The good news for the Bears is that they have a week off for Susanyi to get healthy. The NCAAs are the last games that Cal will play all year, but that doesn’t start until well into May. Depending on the extent of her injury, Susanyi could make it back by then.

But tennis is a game of rhythm. Any player who comes back from time off needs matches to get into the groove again — a luxury Susanyi won’t have.

With Susanyi once again missing time, the Bears are left in the same place they were in at the beginning of the season — searching for a way to win without their top player.

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But the match provided an opportunity for Cal (12-5, 6-1) to show improvement.

The Bears’ two promising freshmen — Lynn Chi and Klara Fabikova — looked particularly impressive.

Chi and teammate Anett Schutting was challenged early in doubles by the Oregon squad (12-8, 1-7). Oregon’s duo of Nicole Long and Patricia Skowronski were able to push the Bears to an early 4-5 deficit on the top court.

It was like the duo had lost its focus — Chi and Schutting just kept making errors early on.

However, Schutting and Chi were able to come back and win the match, 7-6(2).

“They were playing from behind because they made a few unforced errors early in the match,” said Cal coach Amanda Augustus of the doubles team.

“We had to let them adjust on their own a little bit, and they did. I was happy to see them pull that match out for sure.”

Augustus found the close match to be good practice for the squad.

“I think it was good to have a little bit of a test,” Augustus said. “Coming off the high of last weekend, it would be real easy to take the opponent lightly. The girls did a really good job of carrying over, and I think they focused really well today.”

Cal entered singles with a new lineup. Fabikova, who has consistently played on court No. 3, was bumped up to court No. 2 due to her recent strong play.

“We gave her an opportunity to play on a higher court — I think she’s earned it,” Augustus said. “Just testing her a little bit, and she responded really well to the challenge.”

In recent weeks, Fabikova has dominated in singles play, winning her last seven singles matches. That streak includes tough opponents such as UCLA’s Kyle McPhillips and USC’s Zoe Scandalis.

Even on the higher court, Fabikova dominated as usual.

She defeated Skowronski in singles, 6-2, 6-1. Though Fabikova was favored in that match, Augustus emphasised the challenge Fabikova faced in Skowronski’s experience and aggressive play.

“Skowronski has played at (court) No. 1 for them a lot, and she’s just solid,” said Augustus. “She has a really good volley.”

Earlier in the day, it was Skowronski’s ability to come up to the net that pushed Schutting and Chi in doubles. This did not prove to be a problem for Fabikova.

Fabikova’s move to the second court meant that Cal’s other promising freshman — Chi — was moved down to court No. 3. Essentially, the two players switched places.

For Augustus, Fabikova’s success proves that Cal has two talented freshmen that can each play at a high level.

“Obviously, when Lynn is doing great too, it’s a nice problem to have,” Augustus said.

“You can put people in different positions, and they can be successful.”

Each of Cal’s top five singles players won her match in straight sets. Kelly Chui on court No. 6 was the only Cal player to lose a set.

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The No. 15 Bears moved to 8-4 on the season, including winning five of their last six, when they convincingly beat San Diego State 6-1 on Sunday at the Aztec Tennis Center in San Diego.

The most impressive performance in the victory was Annie Goransson’s 6-0, 6-0 win over San Diego State’s Michela Casanova on the sixth court. Goransson is returning from a back injury that sidelined her for the first month of the season.

This is her third match into her return, and she’s won every match in convincing fashion since she’s been back.

“She has three years of playing a lot of matches for Cal,” said Cal coach Amanda Augustus. “So she knows what it takes.”

The team has been easing Goransson back into the lineup, which explains her play on the sixth court and her absence from doubles over the last two weeks.

With the kind of impressive wins she has had recently, her return to full action could be close.

Not every player dominated like Goransson, however.

Though lopsided, the match was not without its moments of drama. Freshman Lynn Chi was pushed into a third set for the second match in a row and pulled off a late victory. Her win gave Cal its fourth point and sealed the victory for the Bears.

Junior Anett Schutting was also pushed into a third set. After winning her first set but dropping her second, Schutting found herself to be the last Bear standing as she faced San Diego State’s Julia Wais.

When she finally won the third set, 6-2, the match was over, and Cal had a 6-1 victory.

Klara Fabikova, Tayler Davis and Tami Nguyen all won their matches in straight sets for the Bears. Cal took two of the three doubles matches to clinch the doubles point.

The advantage for the Bears in the nearly four-hour match was their endurance. Whenever a match lasted for a while or went into a third set, Cal was able to capitalize.

“There is no time element in tennis, so you have to be able to stay out there as long as you need to in order to win the match,” Augustus said. “Generally when you play other top teams, the matches are close, they last three sets.”

This preparation for long matches is mental as well as physical.

“You know you can make any adjustments if needed,” Augustus said, “in case you start out slow or the girl comes out and plays tough against you.”

Against San Diego State, those preparations came into use as the Bears found themselves up against an aggressive team that wasn’t going to go down without a fight. The Aztecs consistently played close to the net, and in response, the Bears changed the pace of the match.

Those adjustments that Cal made on each court proved to be key, as the team played better in later sets on almost every court.

“Some matches, you can just try different things and see what works,” Augustus said.

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For Cal fans at Hellman Tennis Complex, the injury was like a nightmare.

Everyone on the Cal roster got bumped up a court to make up for Susanyi’s absence, facing tougher opponents than usual. Despite sweeping the doubles point against the Bruins, the injury-hampered Bears (4-3) fell, 4-3.

The story started the same against USC (8-2) the next day. Susanyi played her doubles set with freshman Klara Fabikova, but Cal coach Amanda Augustus decided to pull her out before singles once again.

After the Trojans swept the Bears in doubles, it seemed like the ending would be the same as Friday.

But the unexpected happened. Five Bears pulled off victories to give No. 7 Cal a huge 5-2 win over the No. 6 Trojans.

USC’s Sabrina Santamaria, who shares the top spot with Susanyi, also did not play during singles due to a slight injury. Whatever USC’s injury situation, this win was still important for Cal’s confidence.

“This was a really crucial victory for us just emotionally and mentally for the team,” Augustus said. “It will keep us working hard to get better and better each week.”

The first point for the Bears came when freshman Lynn Chi, who played well against UCLA, had another impressive performance and knocked off USC’s Giuliana Olmos, 6-4, 6-0, in her first weekend on the second court.

“I was definitely really nervous at the beginning,” said Chi. “But I think after yesterday’s match, I got a little more confidence because I felt like I really could play on court two.”

Tayler Davis pulled off a comeback victory on the fourth court, as did Alice Duranteau on the sixth. When Klara Fabikova wrapped up her match on court three in the third set, it gave Cal their fourth point and the assured victory.

Now the only people still playing tennis were Cal’s No. 12 Anett Schutting and USC’s No. 3 Danielle Lao.

With the Bears already assured a win, it would have been easy for Schutting to let up, but this match was important to her as she had struggled just the day before against UCLA, losing to No. 6 Robin Anderson 6-1, 6-0.

In a back-and-forth match, Schutting finally prevailed against Lao in three sets, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Schutting attributes the change in her play from Friday to Saturday to her mental focus.

“I think I wanted to win today more than I did yesterday,” Schutting said. “I felt great today, physically, mentally, everything, and I was ready to compete.”

In a weekend where Cal’s top player was limited due to injury, several other players showed that the Bears have the talent and depth to compete with tennis’ top teams.

“The more adverse conditions the better,” said Augustus. “It trains you mentally. And I think when you get to the end of the season, it’s the mentally tougher team that wins.”

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Sophomore Zsofi Susanyi has vaulted to the No. 1 singles spot in the country. In her freshman year, she advanced to the NCAA singles semifinals — farther than any Cal freshman before her.

“Jana was No. 1 in the country, but now Zsofi is No. 1 and is filling that position,” said junior Anett Schutting. “So it’s not too much of a difference. We are filling that position.”

Now that she’s at No. 1, Susanyi acknowledges that there’s a target on her back.

“I was surprised when I saw the ranking,” Susanyi said, “but it makes me want to work harder because I know they will want to beat me even more.”

After strong play in January and February, the sophomore from Hungary has tied for the top spot with USC’s Sabrina Santamaria. So far in the spring, Susanyi has gone 4-1 in singles play and 3-2 in doubles when paired with either freshman Klara Fabikova or senior Tayler Davis.

Susanyi’s accomplishment has excited the team, but the players are still focused on long-term, team-oriented goals.

No. 7 Cal has consistently ranked in or around the top 10 for the last few years. This year, the Bears (3-2) will have their eyes set on the NCAA championship.

“Our goal is to be the No. 1 team and win the NCAAs,” Schutting said. “We want to continue to keep improving, and if we have a good attitude and play well together, the results will follow.”

Last year, Cal lost to then-No. 1-ranked UCLA in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. Now without their veteran leader Jana Juricova, winning a national championship will prove difficult. However, having a sophomore like Susanyi as the top singles player in the country has given the team energy and optimism for the long term.

Several other young players are also contributing. Cal has two promising freshmen — Lynn Chi and Klara Fabikova, who was ranked as the No. 2 freshman player in the preseason.

Although Fabikova has struggled early with injuries this season, her future looks bright. She was 3-0 in singles play and 3-1 in doubles before being pulled out due to a nagging back injury. So far this season, Chi has been playing on the third singles court for Cal while Fabikova has been on the fourth.

Cal faces a tough test this weekend when it takes on No. 2 UCLA (6-1) and No. 6 USC (7-1). Cal fell to USC on Feb. 10, but now the Bears will have the opportunity to take on the Trojans in Berkeley at Hellman Tennis Complex. These matches will be key for Cal moving forward this season.

“The advantage is that we know what they do,” Susanyi said.

Playing in the Pac-12 gives the Bears an advantage by preparing them for difficult competition. Facing top teams like UCLA, USC and No. 13 Stanford helps Cal during the NCAAs, when the Bears have to play equally tough teams that they do not get a chance to face during the regular season.

“This conference usually has four top-10 teams, but playing against top-10 teams makes us better,” said head coach Amanda Augustus.

Last year, the Bears went 1-5 against those three opponents during the regular season. Cal should be a top team again this year, but an NCAA title might be tough.

Given the Bears’ relative youth, it’s not unrealistic to think that a title for them could be just a few years away.

“We want to go as far as we can,” says Susanyi. “But most importantly, we want to keep improving and compete well.”

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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 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.

“It’s all up for grabs,” head coach Amanda Augustus said. “For whoever wants to take it.”

This particular tournament is unique in that instead of having different flights, offering one draw for singles and one draw for doubles. One-hundred and twenty eight players will compete for the singles and the doubles championships.

The competition at the event will include the nation’s top players from the northwest region. Seventeen teams will compete including Saint Mary’s, Santa Clara and Stanford.

Expected to attend are No. 1 Nicole Gibbs and No. 16 Stacey Tan of Stanford, who provide the biggest challenge to the Bears. The entire Cal squad, including No. 5 Zsofi Susanyi and No. 22 Anett Schutting, will partake in both singles and doubles.

“The fall is a mix of playing in tournaments where you expect to do well and playing in tournaments with a highly ranked field,” Augustus said. “This week is a good test for everyone.”

For Cal, Susanyi continues to recover from her ankle injury suffered last May. While her early exit at the ITA/All-American Championships two weeks ago was disappointing, Augustus believes that Susanyi is getting closer to being at full strength.

“Her goal is to progressively add more and more to her training each week,” Augustus said. “Now that she has a couple of tournaments under her belt, she wants to take the next steps forward.”

Also for the Bears, freshman Lynn Chi will have an opportunity to showcase her talent on the national stage. A week after her first place finish at the Saint Mary’s Invitational, Chi will face the most difficult competition of her short collegiate career.

On the doubles side of the competition, the usual pairing of No. 3 Goransson and Schutting will not be on the same court. Instead the Bears will be experimenting with different pairs across the board in order to see if any better combinations exist. Splitting them up has the potential to create two good teams, instead of just one.

Cal’s desire to experiment at such an important tournament demonstrates its focus on the long term. While the implications of this tournament are bigger than most, the Bears know that they have to take it one match at a time in order to meet their goal of being a top-five team in the country once the first team rankings are released in the spring.

“It’s a yearlong process,” said Augustus. “We take it event by event, segment by segment. Our focus is on the bigger picture. Having the team be as good as we can possibly be.”

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Partaking in the Saint Mary’s Invitational at Moraga, Calif., Cal swept away the competition by winning the top four draws this weekend. The tournament was divided into 3 different flights: red, white and blue, each of which had a singles and a doubles draw.

The freshman duo of Klara Fabikova and Lynn Chi took home the crown in the top red flight doubles draw, while Junior Alice Duranteau and sophomore Laura Posylkin were victorious in the white flight doubles final. In singles, Lynn Chi won the red draw and junior Kelly Chui won the white draw.

The weekend proved to be a first for Cal women’s tennis.

“I am not sure we’ve ever swept this tournament before,” head coach Amanda Augustus said.

Cal got off to a fast start Sunday morning as Fabikova and Chi defeated Danielle Flores and Jade Frampton of Saint Mary’s, 8-1, to take first in the red flight doubles draw. Despite its tenacity, Saint Mary’s lacked Cal’s sharpness and missed its fair share of volleys at the net.

“They played really aggressively,” Chi said. “We were able to adjust to it though, and they didn’t adjust back.”

Chi’s success didn’t stop there, however. She would go on to win the red singles draw by defeating her teammate and doubles partner Fabikova.

Because two Bears were playing in the finals, Augustus opted to let the two of them play without much coaching. The result was a hard fought match that saw both players test each other.

It was also the first championship win for the Weston, Fla. native.

“I didn’t feel any pressure,” Chi said. “I felt the opposite actually. I felt that as I freshmen I didn’t have anything to lose.”

In the white doubles draw, Duranteau and Posylkin defeated Marina Nikolic and Melinda Akerbrandt of the University of San Francisco, 8-5. Despite starting at 7-2, Cal watched its lead evaporate as USF fought its way back to 7-5 before eventually winning the final game.

“We just missed some important shots,” Duranteau said. “It was just about getting our focus back and having the strong intention of making the last shot that were missing.”

Augustus was impressed by her doubles team’s ability to set up tandem plays, especially because the two athletes haven’t been playing together for too long. Duranteau attributed that success to communication and energy.

“We talk to each other a lot,” Duranteau said. “She has a lot of energy and it’s really contagious.”

Junior transfer Kelly Chui completed the sweep for Cal, taking home the white flight singles championship. Augustus emphasized the difficulty of the final match and how Chui responded.

“Kelly wasn’t able to use her net game as much as she would have liked,” Augustus said. “It took a lot of patience on Kelly’s part.”

Like the rest of her Cal teammates, Kelly was able to come through and take home the crown.

“She was able to get the job done,” Augustus said.

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