Three Bears Awarded All-Pac-12 Honors
Left to right: Anna Bright, Julia Rosenqvist and Olivia Hauger led Cal to the NCAA second round this year.

Three Bears Awarded All-Pac-12 Honors

BERKELEY – California's Julia Rosenqvist, Olivia Hauger and Anna Bright were named to the All-Pac-12 Women's Tennis Teams, the conference announced on Tuesday, with Rosenqvist, a sophomore, earning a spot on the All-Pac-12 Second Team. Hauger, a senior co-captain, and Bright, a sophomore, claimed All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.
 
The three Golden Bears led 17th-ranked Cal to a 13-9 overall record, to a 6-4 Pac-12 record and to the second round of the NCAA Championship. Rosenqvist and Hauger have more tennis to play in the postseason, with both earning at-large invitations to the NCAA Singles Championship that starts on May 20. The pair of Rosenqvist and sophomore Hana Mraz will also compete in the NCAA Doubles Championship beginning May 21. Both tournaments will take place at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.
 
This is the second straight season that Rosenqvist and Hauger will compete in NCAA singles and the first time that either Rosenqvist or Mraz will vie for the NCAA doubles crown. In 2018, Hauger, Rosenqvist and Bright all played in the NCAA Singles Championships, falling in the round of 64.
 
Rosenqvist, a native of Onsala, Sweden, is currently ranked 41st in singles and has a 22-16 record that includes wins over big-time opponents including South Carolina's Ingrid Gamarra Martins – currently ranked fourth – 7-5, 6-1; Vanderbilt's Fernanda Contreras, now ranked sixth, 2-6, 6-4, 6-0; N.C. State's Anna Rogers, ranked 10th, 7-6(4), 6-1; and Pepperdine's 37th-ranked Ashley Lahey, 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-4, to clinch Cal's 4-3 upset of the seventh-ranked Waves.
 
A two-time Pac-12 Player of the Week this season, Rosenqvist is also a member of the nation's 20th-ranked doubles team (8-8) with Mraz. Among Mraz and Rosenqvist's big wins this season were a 6-2 upset of Arizona State's Lauryn John-Baptiste and Ilze Hattingh, who were then ranked eighth and now ranked No. 4; a 7-6(3) upset of UCLA's fifth-ranked Gabby Andrews and Ayan Broomfield; and a 6-3 upset of Pepperdine's eighth-ranked Lahey and Evgeniya Levashova.
 
A product of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hauger is ranked 48th and boasts a record of 24-9. The Cal co-captain has posted her share of big wins this season, including one against Florida's Ida Jarlskog – then ranked ninth and now 15th – 6-4, 7-6(5), that clinched Cal's 4-3 upset of No. 11 Florida; a 6-1, 7-6(5) win over Pepperdine's 16th-ranked Evgeniya Levashova; a 6-1, 6-4 result against Stanford's 29th-ranked Melissa Lord in the quarterfinals of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships; and, most recently, a 6-4, 6-0 win over Long Beach State's Emma Bardet in the NCAA round of 64.
 
Hauger and junior Katerina Stloukalova are ranked 88th in doubles and have a 9-5 record, which includes a 6-3 win over Stanford's 57th-ranked duo of Melissa Lord and Niluka Madurawe and a win over Long Beach State's Zara Lennon and Carlotta Casasampere, 7-5, in the recent NCAA round of 64.
 
Bright is likewise part of a nationally ranked doubles team with Jasie Dunk, with the Cal sophomores ranked 54th. They put together a 17-10 record that included wins in both rounds of the NCAA team tournament – 6-2 over LBSU's Lalita Devarakonda/Natalia Munoz and 6-1 over Pepperdine's 86th-ranked Lahey/Daria Kuczer.
 
In singles, Bright is ranked 79th with a 27-10 record. The Boca Raton, Florida, product ended her season on a seven-match winning streak, including a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(2) victory over Stanford's 44th-ranked Emily Arbuthnott and an NCAA round of 64 win over Long Beach State's Devarakonda, 6-3, 7-5. Bright also posted wins over Texas Tech's 22nd-ranked Felicity Maltby, 7-5, 6-4, Vandrbilt's 93rd-ranked Amanda Meyer, 6-4, 6-3, and UNLV's 105th-ranked Aiwen Zhu, 6-3, 6-3.
 
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