ATHENS, Georgia – California seniors Florian Lakat, Filip Bergevi and Andre Goransson look to close out their college careers with national titles in the NCAA individual championships that begin this week in Athens. The NCAA Singles Championship starts Wednesday and the NCAA Doubles Championship begins Thursday at the University of Georgia's Dan Magill Tennis Complex. Both tournaments end on May 29.
 
For the second consecutive postseason, Lakat and Bergevi are seeded 5-8 in NCAA doubles and have earned doubles All-America honors. Lakat also earned All-America status as a seeded singles player (9-16) in this year's tournament, which marks his second straight berth in the singles postseason. Goransson will be playing in NCAA singles for the third consecutive year.
 
Last year in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bergevi and Lakat reached the NCAA doubles quarterfinals, while Lakat and Goransson lost in the round of 64 in NCAA singles.
 
The 61st-ranked Goransson will play South Carolina's 71st-ranked Harrison O'Keefe at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday in the NCAA singles round of 64. The Cal star brings a 25-12 record into his first career match against O'Keefe.
 
The 12th-ranked Lakat brings a 19-11 record into his round of 64 match with North Carolina's 22nd-ranked Ronnie Schneider. The Tar Heel is a familiar face, as Schneider beat the Parisian in the NCAA team tournament's round of 16 on May 18 in Athens (see below). The rematch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
 
The fifth-ranked duo of Bergevi and Lakat (22-8) will play Duke's 20th-ranked Spencer Furman and Nick Stachowiak in the NCAA doubles opening round of 32 on Thursday at a time TBA. If Lakat wins in singles on Wednesday, he'd also be playing in the singles round of 32 on Thursday.
 
Live Coverage
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NCAA Tournament Site
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Scouting Cal

• A two-time Pac-12 Player of the Week this season, the 12th-ranked Florian Lakat improved his singles record to 19-10 after beating Tom Fawcett to clinch the April 22 Big Slam; Lakat produced a 12-8 court-one record this season
• Lakat garnered Pac-12 Player of the Week on Feb. 20 and on April 17, when he was lauded for winning twice in singles and twice in doubles in Cal's conference wins at Oregon and Washington
• Andre Goransson beat 67th-ranked Konrad Zieba, 7-5, 6-4, in the NCAA round of 32 win over Northwestern; he posted an 11-8 court-two record in his last collegiate season
• Goransson was named the March 27 Pac-12 Player of the Week for his play in Cal's wins over Yale and Illinois
• Goransson beat teammate Filip Bergevi for the singles title at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships last fall in Berkeley
• Lakat and Bergevi have a 22-8 record that includes a 6-1, doubles-point clinching win over Tennessee Tech's Alberto Esteban/Guillermo Nicolas in the NCAA round of 64
• 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 10th year on the staff

 
Last Time Out: Bears Fall to UNC in Round of 16
Despite a late rally, eighth-seeded/eighth-ranked California fell to ninth-seeded/ninth-ranked North Carolina, 4-1, in the NCAA round of 16 on May 18 in Athens. Freshman Bjorn Hoffmann posted the lone point for the Golden Bears in beating Bo Boyden, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.
 
In doubles, the 74th-ranked pair of senior Andre Goransson and junior Billy Griffith beat the 82nd-duo of Jack Murray and Simon Soendergaard, 6-3, on court two to give Cal's court-one team a chance to clinch the point. But, in a matchup of two of the top doubles teams in the nation, Cal's fifth-ranked pair of Lakat and senior Filip Bergevi lost a tight match to the 12th-ranked William Blumberg and Robert Kelly, 7-6(2).
 
After dropping all six first sets in singles, the Bears rallied to force three-setters on five of the six courts. Trailing 3-0, Hoffmann won his match on court six to give Cal some hope. But the Tar Heels clinched the win when the 22nd-ranked Ronnie Schneider upset the 12th-ranked Lakat, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, on court one.
 
Bears Claim Regional Honors
On May 15, the ITA honored the Bears with Northwest Regional awards, as associate head coach Tyler Browne was named the Assistant Coach of the Year for the third time, Florian Lakat was named the Senior Player of the Year and junior Billy Griffith was named the Player to Watch.
 
Browne, a former Cal player now in his 10th season on the coaching staff, also earned the regional assistant coach accolade in 2012 and 2015.
 
This is the first ITA Northwest Regional honor for Lakat, though he earned the ITA Southern Regional Rookie of the Year award in 2014 when he played at Mississippi State.
 
NCAA Lauds Bears For APR
Cal men's tennis was one of a record-seven Cal teams to earn NCAA Public Recognition Awards for their exceptional results in the classroom. Each of the seven – men's tennis, women's tennis, women's golf, women's gymnastics, lacrosse, volleyball and men's water polo – posted a perfect multiyear Academic Progress Rate of 1,000. Cal's seven recognized programs ties for the second most in the Pac-12.
 
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance. The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 academic years.
 
Cal History at NCAAs
The following pairs won nine NCAA doubles titles for the Bears: Gervais Hillis/Gerald Stratford (1925), E.G. Chandler/Bud Stow (1926), Dolf Muehleisen/Robert Muench (1930), Paul Newton/Richard Bennett (1935, 1937), Doug Imhoff/Robert Peacock (1939), Clif Mayne/Hugh Ditzler (1952), Doug Eisenman/Matt Lucena (1990) and Matt Lucena/Bent-Ove Pederson (1991).