Kris Kwinta

After playing four games at home, Cal men’s tennis will travel to Southern California to face the Waves of Pepperdine University on Saturday.

Cal men’s tennis came back after its loss to Columbia, winning against the Mustangs of SMU and the Sun Devils of ASU. However, the Bears ended their four straight matches at home with a loss to the Wildcats of Arizona.

The Bears beat San Diego by a score of 5-2, extending their record to 7-2. The Bears managed to climb back to victory in singles after losing the doubles point to San Diego.

Following their match against San Diego, the Bears will then immediately high-tail it over to La Jolla to play in the Pacific Coast Doubles Championships, facing competitors like No. 3 Michigan, No. 8 USC and No. 24 Stanford.

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

Routing Saint Mary’s 7-0 Tuesday and narrowly clinching against No. 13 Stanford with 4-3 Friday, this was a big week for the Bears.

As a wrap-up to this first part of the 2022-2023 season, Cal players seized their chance in the various tournaments to improve their game ahead of the upcoming team season, which will commence in Honolulu, HI, against Florida State and Hawaii.

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.

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.