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Close just doesn’t cut it in sports. In the end, that’s where No. 8 Cal came against No. 1 Florida in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. The Bears nearly pulled the upset in a much more competitive match than the final 4-2 score would suggest. But
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The Cal women’s tennis team’s Achilles’ heel this season has been its play in doubles. 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
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Victory at last. After four years of consecutive losses, No. 9 Cal was finally able to topple its rival, No. 12 Stanford, 4-3, on Friday at the Hellman Tennis Complex in Berkeley. After USC won its match against UCLA, the Cal-Stanford match was no longer for the conference title but
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The Cal women’s tennis team usually plays two matches every weekend, but when it travels south to take on San Diego State on Sunday, the Bears will be in the abnormal position of only playing once. The situation is so rare that senior Tayler Davis does not remember it having
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After rolling through the first six rounds, the Cal women’s tennis team finally hit a Stanford road block at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships at Stanford on Tuesday. Despite a dominating display from Oct. 19 to 23, Cal ultimately fell short of taking first place and securing an automatic bid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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