Alex Chang

The blue and gold marked their territory on the historical enemies’ courts and confirmed a productive fall season as one Bear made his run all the way to the final.

Held at the Goldman Tennis Center in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, this tournament welcomed at its earliest stages six Bears. Four of them accessed the round of 16: Lucas Magnaudet, Sean Hill, Yuta Kikuchi and Alex Chang, the latter convincingly beating Daniel Cardiff, 6-4, 6-0.

In college tennis, athletes play individually, but most of the time are still fighting for their team. This was fully on display over the past few weeks, as the Cal men’s tennis players have been busy traveling to college and professional tournaments alike.

Five Cal players will step out onto their home courts Friday to fight to qualify for the Battle in the Bay tournament held in San Francisco next weekend.

No. 32 Cal men’s tennis extended its winning streak to seven matches, but the team faces a tough task as it travels to the city of angels for matches against No. 46 UCLA and No. 9 USC.

As the season kicked into high gear, No. 43 Cal had a successful weekend at home defeating Santa Clara and No. 22 Utah in the first official Pac-12 match of the season.

While none of the teams won a title in the main draw, the coaching tandem of head coach Kris Kwinta and assistant coach Francis Sargeant took the court and won in the consolation bracket.

No. 31 Cal men’s tennis was unstoppable no matter the weather conditions at home, shutting out Army 7-0 a cold Saturday and UNLV 7-0 a warm Monday.

On an unseasonably warm February afternoon in Palo Alto, Cal men’s tennis lost to the No. 8 Stanford Cardinal 4-0 in the Big Slam in nonconference play.

The 2-1 Cal men’s tennis team begins its Pac-12 season this weekend at home taking on No. 23 UCLA on Saturday and No. 8 USC on Sunday.