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…
Despite common misconception, head coach Amanda Augustus of cal women’s tennis team knows that collegiate tennis is more than just a spring sport. “That’s the common thing that people don’t understand,” Augustus said. “They think we’re only a spring sport. But we play a lot in the fall.” Because team 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…
Zsofi Susanyi became the first Cal women’s tennis player to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA Championships as a freshman, falling to Stanford’s Mallory Burdette in Sunday’s national semifinal at Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga. Susanyi outperformed her elder teammates in the singles draw, including senior Jana Read More…
And so ends the Jana Juricova era for the Cal women’s tennis team. The senior still has the singles and doubles tournaments coming up this week, but winning a team title was the one box still unchecked for the former singles and doubles champion. The ninth-seeded Bears advanced farther than Read More…
The No. 9 Cal women’s tennis team has swept all three of its opponents 4-0 thus far in the NCAA Championships. Cal coach Amanda Augustus does not expect a similar score for Saturday’s quarterfinal match against No. 1 UCLA. “That’s almost near impossible … I’d be very surprised if it’s Read More…
Anett Schutting solidified her place as the third option for the No. 8 Cal women’s tennis team, beating three top-20 players en route to a second-place finish in the Pac-12 singles championship. Schutting’s appearance in the final was a high water mark for the squad, which came away from Ojai, 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…
