WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – California seniors Billy Griffith and J.T. Nishimura start the last leg of their college careers when they play in the NCAA individual tournaments starting midweek at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex. Griffith, ranked 54th, is an at-large entrant in the NCAA Singles Championship that begins Wednesday. The 33rd-ranked pair of Nishimura and Griffith will then start the NCAA Doubles Championship on Thursday.
 
The bracket for the 64-player field is available by clicking here and the bracket for the 32-team doubles field is here. The links to live scores will be live on match days on this tournament page. For information including the schedule, live stream links and more, please visit Wake Forest's NCAA tournament central page here.
 
Griffith (15-13 record) will take on Kentucky's eighth-seeded and eighth-ranked Ryotaro Mastumura in the first round of NCAA singles at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday. It's the first meeting between the Bear and the Wildcat, who has a record of 17-4.
 
In the first round of NCAA doubles, at a time TBA on Thursday, Nishimura and Griffith (24-12) will face a familiar opponent in North Carolina's second-seeded and second-ranked William Blumberg and Robert Kelly (16-3). Griffith and Nishimura lost to the Tar Heels, 6-2, 6-4, in the round of 32 at the Saint Francis Health System All-American Championships in the fall.
 
Griffith has posted wins over seven opponents currently ranked, including Stanford's ninth-ranked Tom Fawcett, Oregon's 22nd-ranked Thomas Laurent, Washington's 46th-ranked Jake Douglas and – in the NCAA first-round win – N.C. State's 43rd-ranked Alex Galarneau. In the fall, Griffith advanced to the quarterfinals of the Oracle ITA Masters and to the round of 16 at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships.
 
Nishimura and Griffith have beaten four doubles opponents that are currently ranked. Among those opponents are Michigan's 23rd-ranked Runhao Hua and Alex Knight (the Wolverine duo was ranked No. 9 at the time), Baylor's 15th-ranked Will Little and Johannes Schretter (who were ranked No. 2 then) in the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge, Oregon's 53rd-ranked Thomas Laurent and Cormac Clissold, whom the Bears beat in the recent Pac-12 tournament, and Arizona State's 68th-ranked duo of Michael Geerts and Tim Ruehl, which the Bears beat in the final of the BNPPO tournament. Nishimura, from San Jose, California, and Griffith, a Fresno, California, native, reached the quarterfinals of the Pacific Coast Doubles Championships this spring and were the runners-up in the ITA Northwest Regional Championship in the fall.
 
Griffith is hoping to capture Cal's third NCAA singles title, and the two Bears seek to win the program's 10th doubles championship. E.G. "Bud" Chandler win the 1925 and 1926 singles tournaments for the Bears, while the most recent Cal pair to capture NCAA doubles was Matt Lucena and Bent-Ove Pedersen in 1991. Lucena also won the NCAA doubles title in 1990 with Doug Eisenman.
 
Virginia's Thai-Son Kwiatkowski won the 2017 NCAA singles crown, while Oklahoma's Andrew Harris and Spencer Papa captured the 2017 doubles title. Also last season, Cal's Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat competed in NCAA doubles, with the duo falling in the round of 16. Lakat also reached the round of 16 in NCAA singles, while Andrew Goransson fell in the singles round of 32.