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For all its championship banners and record win streaks, Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center may have a soft spot for Cal women’s tennis. On Monday, Jana Juricova hoisted the NCAA Singles Championships trophy — on the very same courts where the Bears’ Susie Babos lifted hers in 2006. The top-seeded Juricova
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For the second consecutive year, Jana Juricova will play for the NCAA singles title. In Sunday’s semifinal match, the top-seeded Juricova defeated Stanford’s eighteenth-ranked Nicole Gibbs in a tight three-set match, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (2), on Gibbs’ home court at Taube Tennis Center. Looking for her first ever NCAA
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In the first three days of the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, senior Mari Andersson produced the biggest upset of the tournament — bouncing No. 2 Maria Sanchez of USC, 6-2, 6-3, in Thursday’s second round of singles at Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center. After defeating Georgia Tech’s Jillian O’Neill in
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Leading, 4-1, in the third set against Georgia’s Chelsey Gullickson, top-ranked Jana Juricova looked poised to carry the Cal women’s tennis team into the next round in the NCAA tournament. With the match locked at 3-3, Juricova was the perfect player for the Bears at a time like this. However,
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After months of preparation for the NCAA tournament, Cal women’s tennis team’s hopes of lifting its first NCAA title fizzled away on Friday, as the Bears were edged out by Georgia, 4-3, at Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center. After blazing past Boston University and No. 18 USC in the first two
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With the Cal women’s tennis team needing one more win to clinch a victory over No. 18 USC, sophomore Tayler Davis found herself on the wrong side of a 5-1 score in the third set in her match against the Trojans’ Cristala Andrews. Six games later, Davis rocketed a backhand
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