No. 6 Cal Hosts Sunday Doubleheader - California Golden Bears Athletics

BERKELEY – Sixth-ranked California hosts fellow UC teams from Davis and Santa Barbara on Sunday at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Golden Bears (5-1) take on the Aggies at 10 a.m. and then play the 4-1 Gauchos at 2 p.m.

Admission to the matches is free. Fans can also watch the match on the Hellman live stream by clicking here and follow live scoring updates from @CalMensTennis on Twitter.

Poll Position
Cal is ranked sixth in both the Oracle/ITA Rankings and in the USTA Top 25 poll this week.

Here are Cal's Oracle/ITA Rankings from Tuesday's singles and doubles polls: In singles, senior Florian Lakat is ranked 20th, senior Andre Goransson is 26th, senior Filip Bergevi is 63rd and junior Billy Griffith is 80th. Bergevi and Lakat are ranked second in doubles.

Lakat Named Pac-12 Player of the Week
Cal senior Florian Lakat claimed his first Pac-12 Player of the Week honor when the Conference lauded him on Monday for his play at the recent ITA National Men's Team Indoor Championship in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This is Cal's 25th all-time Pac-12 Player of the Week accolade for men's tennis.

At the tournament, which concluded on Monday, the Paris, France, native won twice in singles and three times in doubles, as Cal won two out of three matches – including reaching the quarterfinal round.

Ranked 11th in singles at the time, Lakat beat Baylor's 54th-ranked Juan Benitez, 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-4, in Cal's 4-2 win over the Bears in the round of 16. The Golden Bear star later defeated UCLA's 73rd-ranked Martin Redlicki, 6-4, 6-3, in Cal's thrilling, 4-3 victory over the Bruins in the consolation round.

Lakat's match vs. North Carolina's 16th-ranked Ronnie Scheider went unfinished, though the Bear led the Tar Heel, 4-6, 6-1, 6-6 (4-1 in the tiebreaker), at court-one singles when UNC clinched a 4-2 win over Cal in the quarterfinals.

In doubles, the third-ranked pair of Lakat and Filip Bergevi knocked off North Carolina's 21st-ranked William Blumberg and Robert Kelly, 6-3. The two Bears also defeated Baylor's Max Tchoutakian and Johannes Schretter, 6-2, while Lakat teamed with Connor Heap to beat the Bruins' Gage Brymer and Maxime Cressey, 6-4.

Scouting the Bears

Florian Lakat has an 11-4 singles record
Lakat and Filip Bergevi, who won the doubles title at the Saint Francis Health System All-American Championships in the fall, have a 13-2 doubles record
Bergevi is 13-4 in singles
Andre Goransson, who has a 15-5 singles record, beat Swedish compatriot Bergevi in the singles final of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships at Cal last fall
Ranked 45th earlier this season, the pair of Goransson and Billy Griffith has a 10-3 doubles record
In singles, Griffith has a 13-3 record; he lost to Bergevi in the regional semifinals in Berkeley
Two proud Cal alumni lead the Golden Bears: 2016 Pac-12 Coach of the Year Peter Wright (class of '91) is in his 24th year as head coach, while associate head coach Tyler Browne (class of 2008) is in his ninth year on the staff

Scouting UC Davis

In its last match, UC Davis won at Saint Mary's, 6-1, on Feb. 18
The Aggies host Sacramento State at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday
Eric Steidlmayer is in his fifth year as the Aggies' head coach

Scouting UCSB

The Gauchos won at Fresno State, 6-1, in their last match
UCSB plays at San Francisco at 1 p.m. on Saturday
Simon Freund and Morgan Mays are ranked eighth in doubles
Former Golden Bear and three-time All-American Marty Davis – who won the ITA National Men's Team Indoor Championship with Cal in 1980 – is in his 16th season as UCSB's head coach

TennisRecruiting.Net Tabs Cal's Class No. 1
TennisRecruiting.net named Cal's recruiting class No. 1 in its winter rankings. The five-man class of Jacob Brumm, Paul Barretto, Jackson Suh, Ben Draper and Jack Molloy – which arrives in Berkeley next fall – gave Cal (with 461 points and 8 first-place votes) the edge over Florida (460 point, 8 first-place votes) and UCLA (433 points, 3 first-place votes) in the top 25 poll.

Bears Celebrate 125 Years of Cal Tennis
Cal men's tennis is celebrating the 125th year of the program, which has produced multiple national champions and All-Americans in its storied history. The perennial powerhouse, which was founded in 1892, has won three national team titles, four national singles titles and 14 national doubles championships from NCAA, USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships and ITA All-American Championships. The Golden Bears have also captured several conference singles and doubles titles as well.

Now in his 24th year as head coach at his alma mater, Peter Wright has coached 17 players who combined to earn 18 All-America honors and led the 2015-16 squad to the NCAA team semifinals. Wright has earned his share of accolades along the way, including his third Pac-12 Coach of the Year award last season and selection into the USTA NorCal Hall of Fame in the summer of 2015.

Next Time
Cal hosts Michigan at 5 p.m. at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Wolverines are ranked ninth in the Oracle/ITA Rankings and 14th in the USTA poll.