MILWAUKEE – California men's tennis won three of five matches on the first day of the Milwaukee Tennis Classic, with Golden Bear Jack Molloy capturing singles and doubles matches at the Western Racquet Club.
 
The 83rd-ranked Molloy – the fourth seed – defeated VCU's Rayane Stable, 6-2, 6-7(8), 6-1, in the opening singles round of 64 and paired with Cal senior Bjorn Hoffmann to beat FAU's Alvaro Fernandez Horta and Thomas Guy, 8-3, in the first round doubles. Cal's top-seeded and defending champion pair of Paul Barretto and Can Kaya – also ranked 58th – earned a bye in the first round and advanced to the round of 16.
 
The 121st-ranked Barretto – the fifth seed in singles – topped Marquette's Brett Meyers, 6-3, 6-4, to join Molloy in the round of 32. But Hoffmann fell in singles to Wisconsin's Lenard Soha in a tight match, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5, and Kaya lost to the Badgers' Robert Krill, 7-6(6), 6-3, on Friday.
 
The Milwaukee Tennis Classic concludes on Monday.
 
SAN FRANCISCO – Cal's 75th-ranked Yuta Kikuchi prevailed in his first singles match in the Battle in the Bay Classic at the California Tennis Club, with the seventh-seeded Bear beating San Francisco's Paul Giraud, 7-6(5), 6-2, in the main draw's opening round of 32.
 
Cal sophomore Kent Hunter had a tough draw in the first round, facing USC's top-seeded and fifth-ranked Brandon Holt and falling to the Trojan, 7-6(3), 6-0. Mert Zincirli did well in qualifying, beating Georgia's Blake Croyder, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, to advance to the main draw. But the Cal senior lost to Arizona State's fourth-seeded and 71st-ranked Nathan Ponwith, 6-3, 6-4, in the round of 32. Dominic Barretto also played in singles qualifying, but the Cal senior dropped a 4-6, 6-4 6-1 result to Pacific's Philip Hjorth.
 
In doubles, Barretto and Zincirli advanced out of qualifying by beating USF's Mitchell Johnson and Phuc Huuynh, 8-6. But they fell in a close match to another pair of Dons in Giraud and Nitzan Ricklis, 8-7(3), in the main draw round of 16. The pair of Hunter and Kikuchi faced UC Santa Barbara's Victor Krustev and Joseph Rotheram in the first round of the main draw but lost, 8-3.
 
The Battle in the Bay Classic ends on Sunday.