BERKELEY – After six consecutive matches at home, California women's tennis hits the road for the first time this month when the Golden Bears (7-5, 3-1 Pac-12) play at Arizona and at No. 41 Arizona State this week in a pair of Pac-12 Conference matches. The Bears – on a two-match winning streak – will face the Wildcats (9-8, 0-3 Pac-12) on Friday at 1:30 p.m. MST in Tucson and take on the Sun Devils (10-4, 2-1 Pac-12) on Saturday at 12 p.m. MST in Tempe.
 
Both matches are viewable via live stream, with the Arizona link available here and the ASU link here.
 
The Sun Devils host Stanford on Friday before playing the Bears on Saturday.
 
It's A Dry Heat
The matches in Arizona – where temperatures will range from the high 70s to the low 90s this week, with no rain on the horizon – will be drier and warmer than what the Bears experienced in recent weeks in Berkeley (see below). Ironically, rain is not in the forecast and temperatures should be in the 70s in Berkeley while the Bears are away.
 
Poll Position
Four Bears were ranked in last week's Oracle ITA singles rankings: Freshman Anna Bright (29-9) is 34th, freshman Julia Rosenqvist (11-4) is 36th and junior Olivia Hauger (19-6) is 38th and senior Karla Popovic (1-2) is 72nd. The pair of Hauger and Rosenqvist (2-2) is ranked 52nd in doubles, while Bright and Rosenqvist (8-4) are ranked 75th.
 
The Sun Devils earned a No. 21 ranking in last week's USTA College Tennis Top 25, with this week's poll due out on Wednesday. ASU has three ranked singles players in No. 56 Lauryn John-Baptiste, No. 108 Savannah Slaysman and No. 112 Kelley Anderson. There are also three Sun Devil pairs ranked in doubles in No. 35 Slaysman/Tereza Kolarova, No. 48 John-Baptiste/Ilze Hattingh and No. 56 Anderson/Nicole Fossa Huergo.
 
Last Time: Glozman Clinches As Sweeps Pac-12 Pair
Vivian Glozman clinched both of Cal's last two matches as the Bears improved to 3-1 in the Pac-12 Conference. After a nonconference clash against top-10 foe Texas Tech was rained out in Berkeley on March 13, Cal won an abbreviated match against Colorado, 4-2, on March 16 at chilly Hellman Tennis Complex. Glozman clinched when she beat Louise Ronaldson, 7-5, 7-5, on court four, as the teams did not play doubles in order to avoid bad weather.
 
Cal's match vs. Utah began on March 17 at Hellman, but after the Bears won the doubles point and the teams moved into singles, rain forced the postponement of the rest of the match till March 18. When play resumed, Glozman clinched when she beat Taylor Calton, 6-4, 6-1, and Cal quickly completed a 7-0 rout of the Utes.
 
Rosenqvist Named Pac-12 Player of the Week
Cal freshman Julia Rosenqvist claimed her first Pac-12 Player of the Week award on March 13 after posting upset victories in singles and doubles against USC and UCLA.
 
In Cal's 7-0 rout of the Trojans on March 9 at the Hellman Tennis Complex, the then-unranked pair of Rosenqvist and Olivia Hauger defeated the 43rd-ranked duo of Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes, 6-1, at court-one doubles. Later, Rosenqvist beat the 37th-ranked Gabby Smith at court-one singles, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
 
On March 10 at Hellman, Rosenqvist upset the Bruins' eighth-ranked Ena Shibahara, 6-3, 6-4, at court-one singles, after pairing with Hauger to knock off the 22nd-ranked Terri Fleming and Jada Hart, 6-4, at court-one doubles.
 
Next Time
Cal closes its regular-season homestand at the Hellman Tennis Complex with a nonconference match against Sacramento State on April 5 at 1:30 p.m. and a Pac-12 match vs. Oregon on April 6 also at 1:30 p.m.