BERKELEY – The 26th-ranked California women's tennis team opens the Pac-12 Championship in the quarterfinal round on Thursday at 3 p.m. PDT in Ojai, where the Golden Bears face the winner of Wednesday's Oregon-Colorado match. Cal finished second in the conference standings with a 7-3 record to claim the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament, while 58th-ranked Oregon is the No. 7 seed and 63rd-ranked Colorado is seeded 10th. The Bears' opener will take place at Weil Tennis Academy.
 
The winner of the conference tournament earns the Pac-12's automatic berth into the NCAA Championship.
 
Cal brings an overall record of 11-8 into the meeting with the Ducks (11-9) or Buffaloes (11-11).
 
The live stream and the link to live scores for the match will be available here closer to the start of the quarterfinal. Saturday's 3 p.m. final will air on the Pac-12 Networks. Fans can also follow updates of all Cal matches on Twitter at @CalWomensTennis.
 
Poll Position
In Tuesday's latest rankings, Cal moved to No. 26 in the team poll. The sophomore tandem of Katja Wiersholm and Jessica Alsola (16-11) now sits at No. 12 in the doubles rankings. Two Bears are ranked in singles in No. 55 Alsola (27-4) – who had an 18-match winning streak snapped in a recent loss to Stanford – and No. 105 Haley Giavara (9-12), who won in singles in perhaps her final match against the Cardinal (see below).
 
Cal Falls In Big Slam
Cal senior Haley Giavara won in singles in her final Big Slam, but then-No. 27 Cal lost to seventh-ranked Stanford, 6-1, on Friday at the Taube Family Tennis Center on The Farm. Giavara claimed the first win in singles, beating the 16th-ranked Connie Ma, 6-4, 6-1, to tie the Big Slam at 1-1, but the Cardinal captured the rest of the singles matches to take the regular-season finale.
 
Last Time Vs. Oregon
Then-No. 37 Cal defeated No. 43 Oregon, 6-1, on April 9 in Eugene, Oregon, with Katja Wiersholm clinching the victory and Jessica Alsola capturing her 15th consecutive singles win. Wiersholm won 6-2, 6-3 over Myah Petchey to clinch, while Alsola, ranked 43rd, posted a 6-1, 6-1 win over Sophie Luescher.
 
Last Time Vs. Colorado
Berta Passola Folch posted the first clinching win of her young career and Cal defeated Colorado, 4-3, in a Pac-12 Conference clash on March 5 indoors in Boulder, Colorado. The freshman also helped Cal win the doubles point and establish an early 1-0 lead. Passola Folch, who hails from Barcelona, paired with Hannah Viller Moeller to defeat Ellen Puzak and Betina Tokac, 6-0, at court-three doubles. Later, Passola Folch clinched the overall contest with a 6-4, 6-0 result over Tokac.
 
Scouting the Bears

• Cal has a 31-0 record in the all-time series with Oregon
• The Bears have an all-time record of 10-1 with Colorado
• Cal won the Pac-12 tournament championship for the first time in 2021
• The Bears also claimed the 2022 Pac-12 regular-season title
• Along with clinching the win over Oregon on April 9 in Eugene, Wiersholm clinched 6-1 Cal victories over Washington State on April 14 and Washington on April 15 in Berkeley
• Hannah Viller Moeller clinched Cal's first three victories this season, including a 6-1 win over UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 21, a 4-1 win over Princeton in the ITA Kickoff Weekend on Jan. 27and a 5-1 result over SDSU on Feb. 24; the Dane clinched her fourth Cal win on March 31, when the Bears beat No. 26 Arizona State, 6-1
• Haley Giavara ended fall 2022 in France, where the Cal senior and Team USA won the Master'U BNP Paribas Championship, with Cal head coach Amanda Augustus on the U.S. staff
• Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm were outstanding in the fall, as the duo won the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and reached the consolation doubles final at the ITA National Fall Championships
• Alsola, Wiersholm and Viller Moeller reached the singles quarterfinals at ITA regionals
• Also last fall, Alsola won the consolation singles title at the ITA All-American Championships, beating USD's Solymar Colling in the final, 6-2, 6-3
• Cal Athletics Hall of Famer and former two-time NCAA doubles champion Amanda Augustus – the 2021 Pac-12 Coach of the Year and five-time ITA Northwest Region Coach of the Year (including in 2021-22) – is in her 16th year as head coach at her alma mater
• Associate head coach Zack Warren – the 2022 ITA Northwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year, who has collected four regional awards overall – is in his ninth year on the staff
• Sean Hill is in his first year as Cal's volunteer assistant coach, after playing as a graduate student for the Cal men's tennis team in 2022
   

Scouting the Ducks

• Oregon has lost five straight dual matches, including 4-0 losses to No. 24 UCLA on April 14 and to No. 26 USC on April 15 in the Ducks' last two matches
• The Ducks compiled a 4-6 conference record
• In doubles, Sophie Luescher and Uxia Martinez Moral are ranked 79th
• Ares Teixido Garcia was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on Feb. 21
• Courtney Nagle is in her fifth season as Oregon's head coach

Scouting the Buffaloes

• Colorado has a three-match losing streak, including a 4-3 loss to No. 52 Utah last week in its regular-season finale
• The Buffaloes posted a 2-8 Pac-12 record
• On April 11, Antonia Balzert earned the Pac-12 Player of the Week award
• Anthony Pham is in his second year as Colorado's head coach

Next Time
The Bears await their fate in the NCAA Championships, with the field for the team tournament announced on May 1 and the singles and doubles fields revealed on May 2.
 
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