BERKELEY – California closes out the regular season when the No. 42 Golden Bears battle No. 20 Stanford in the Big Slam on Friday at 11 a.m. at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium. Cal brings an 11-7 (6-3 Pac-12) record into the match with the rival Cardinal, which is 14-3 (8-0 Pac-12). The Pac-12 Networks will televise the match, with J.B. Long and former Cal star and NCAA champion Amy Jensen announcing.
 
Stanford, the 2017 Pac-12 tournament and regular-season champion, has won the last three meetings between the rivals – 4-1 in the Pac-12 final last season, 4-3 in the 2016-17 regular season and 4-3 in the teams' second meeting in 2015-16. In the first match between the two in 2015-16, Cal won 4-3, as current undergraduate student assistant coach Maegan Manasse clinched when the seventh-ranked Bear defeated No. 59 Carol Zhao, 7-5, 6-4, at court-one singles.
 
Thursday, April 19, marks the four-year anniversary of Cal's first Pac-12 regular-season championship, which the Bears secured by beating Stanford, 6-1, on the Farm. Manasse was a freshman ranked 67th when she upset the Cardinal's 39th-ranked Caroline Doyle, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, at court-six singles to clinch the victory.
 
Last Time: Cal Goes 1-1 In Washington
The current Golden Bears beat Washington State 4-3 on April 14 in Pullman, Washington, one day after losing to Washington, 5-2, in Seattle. Down 1-0, then-No. 45 Cal upset No. 37 Washington State at the Hollingbery Fieldhouse. The 38th-ranked Olivia Hauger – last week's Pac-12 Player of the Week (see below) – beat Guzal Yusupova, 6-4, 7-6(4) to clinch the victory at court-two singles.
 
Cal freshmen Anna Bright and Vivian Glozman, in her homecoming, won in doubles and singles on Friday the 13th, but that wasn't enough for the Bears against the Huskies. The Huskies clinched the win when UW's 22nd-ranked Stacey Fung beat Cal's 40th-ranked Julia Rosenqvist, 6-4, 7-5, at court-one singles. Glozman, a product of Bellevue, Washington, which is 10 miles from Seattle, defeated UW's Kenadi Hance, 6-2, 6-2, at court-five singles. Earlier, Bright and Glozman beat Hance and Prokupuik, 6-2, at court-two doubles.
 
Poll Position
Cal is ranked 42nd and the Cardinal is ranked 20th in Tuesday's Oracle ITA team poll.
 
Four Bears are ranked in this week's Oracle ITA singles rankings: Freshman Julia Rosenqvist (13-7) is 34th, freshman Anna Bright (34-9) is 41st, junior Olivia Hauger (23-7) is 48th and senior Karla Popovic (1-2) is 84th. The pair of Hauger and Rosenqvist (5-5) is ranked 52nd in doubles, while Bright and Rosenqvist (8-4) are ranked 83rd in doubles.
 
Six Stanford players are ranked in singles: No. 22 Michaela Gordon, No. 45 Emily Arbuthnott, No. 64 Melissa Lord, No. 96 Janice Shin, No. 100 Emma Higuchi and No. 102 Caroline Lampl. In doubles, Arbuthnott and Gordon are ranked third, and Lampl and Kimberly Yee are ranked 56th.
 
Hauger, Rosenqvist Named Pac-12 Players of the Week
Olivia Hauger claimed her first Pac-12 Player of the Week honor on April 10, as the conference lauded the Cal junior for her play in the Bears' 7-0 win over Sacramento State and 5-2 upset of then-No. 26 Oregon in Berkeley.
 
Against the Hornets on April 5, the 48th-ranked pair of Hauger and Julia Rosenqvist clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 victory over Maria Fernanda Gonzalez and Carolina Chernyetsky on court one. In singles, the 44th-ranked Hauger defeated Gonzalez, 6-2, 6-2, on court two.
 
Two days later against the Ducks, Hauger and Rosenqvist topped Shweta Sangwan and Julia Eshet, 6-1, at court-one doubles. Hauger then knocked off Julia Lilien, 7-5, 6-0, at court-three singles.
 
This marks the first Pac-12 Player of the Week honor for Hauger and Cal's conference-leading 41st weekly award. It's the Bears' second Pac-12 honor this year, including Julia Rosenqvist's award on March 13, which the freshman earned after posting upset victories in singles and in doubles against USC on March 9 and UCLA on March 10.
 
Cal Boss Augustus + Pac-12's Jensen = Champions
Pac-12 broadcaster Amy Jensen is the only Golden Bear to have won three NCAA titles. Cal head coach Amanda Augustus paired with Jensen to capture Cal's first two NCAA titles when they captured the 1998 and 1999 doubles championships. They are the only Bears to have won back-to-back NCAA championships. The conference lauded the Cal alumnae in 2016 when it named Augustus and Jensen the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Century. After Augustus graduated in 1999, Jensen went on to win the 2000 NCAA doubles title with Claire Curran.
 
Next Time
Cal competes in the Pac-12 Championship, with the conference tournament running from April 25-28 at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club in Ojai, California.