BERKELEY – One day after the Cal men's tennis team earned selection in the NCAA team tournament, its top pair of Jacob Brumm and Yuta Kikuchi claimed a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championship. Ranked 31st as of the April 23 Oracle ITA poll, the Cal duo will play in the doubles tournament at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, beginning May 21, after the conclusion of the NCAA team tournament on May 19.
 
Brumm, a sophomore, and Kikuchi, a freshman, have compiled a record of 15-14, ahead of the Cal team's NCAA first-round match against Drake on Friday in Illinois. In the recent Pac-12 Championship, the two Bears upset Arizona State's 12th-ranked Nathan Ponwith and Dominik Kellovsky, 6-0, in Cal's eventual 4-1 quarterfinal win over the Sun Devils. Kikuchi and Brumm also beat the same ASU duo, 6-2, on March 17 in the third-place match of the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge.
 
Cal's court-one doubles team made plenty of news in the fall, when the two upset the top-ranked team of Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic from Mississippi State, 6-3, 4-6, 1-0(5), in the opening round of 32 in the Saint Francis Health System ITA Men's All-American Championships. The Bears then upset Virginia Tech's 16th-ranked Carlo Donato and Mitch Harper, 7-6(1), 6-3, in the round of 16 before falling in the quarterfinals.
 
Kikuchi and Brumm posted more upsets in the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, with the Bears topping N.C. State's 15th-ranked Igor Saveljic and Ivan Saveljic, 7-6(2), 6-3, in the round of 16 and beating Florida's 24th-ranked Brian Berdusco and Johannes Ingildsen, 7-5, 6-4, in the quarterfinals before bowing out in the semifinal round.
 
The Cal program has captured nine NCAA doubles championships, with Matt Lucena and Bent-Ove Pedersen winning the Bears' most recent NCAA title in 1991.