Lucas Magnaudet

The Bears came back from Austin, Texas, with solid results in doubles competition but still much to accomplish to achieve regularity in singles matches.

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.

Although Magnaudet was the only qualifier in this event, head coach Kwinta saw the tournament as proof that his whole team is ready to thrive.

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. 50 Cal men’s tennis had a chance to be Pac-12 champions. Unfortunately for Cal, it had to face a team that it had already lost to twice this season: No. 13 USC.

In its final regular season match of the season, No. 45 Cal men’s tennis fell to No. 16 Stanford in the Big Slam as the squad could not use its momentum in singles.

No. 45 Cal men’s tennis has struggled through the Pac-12 season, but it takes on its biggest rival in No. 16 Stanford in the second edition of the Big Slam.

After two tough road losses to conference rivals, Cal men’s tennis hopes to correct its path through the season with battles against Arizona State and Arizona in the desert.