Cal Faces USF In Mid-Week Match - California Golden Bears Athletics

BERKELEY – After opening Pac-12 Conference play with two victories over the weekend, the California men's tennis team makes a brief detour to nonconference action Wednesday, when the Golden Bears face San Francisco at the California Tennis Club. Note: The match was previously scheduled to start at 3 p.m. PT but will instead start at 2 p.m. PT.

Match Details

Cal (6-6) vs. San Francisco (5-6)
When: Wednesday, March 20, 2 p.m. PT
Where: California Tennis Club, San Francisco, Calif.

Last Time Out: Cal Opens Pac-12 Slate 2-0
Cal swept No. 52 Oregon and No. 74 Washington in the Bears' opening Pac-12 weekend at the Hellman Tennis Complex in Berkeley.

First, they topped the Ducks on Saturday, with Lucas Magnaudet beating Lenn Luemkemann, 6-4, 6-3, to clinch the victory. The 65th-ranked duo of Alex Chang and Mikey Wright clinched the doubles point for the Bears with a 6-4 win over the 33rd-ranked Quinn Vandecasteele and Matthew Burton on court one.

On Sunday against the Huskies, Magnaudet clinched another 4-1 victory, beating Jim Hendrikx, 6-3, 7-5, at court-six singles to end the match. Wright and Chang upset another ranked duo in No. 17 Cesar Bouchelaghem and Dzianis Zharyn, 6-3, to clinch the doubles point.

Last Time Vs. Dons
Cal defeated San Francisco, 5-1, in their last meeting as part of a Feb. 25, 2023, doubleheader, with the Bears hosting the Dons at Hellman and then playing UC Davis on the road. Siddhant Banthia bested Moritz Hoffman, 6-4, 6-4, on court three to clinch the win over USF.

Poll Position
New ITA rankings come out Tuesday. In the March 5 singles poll, Ryder Jackson sits at No. 67 and Carl Emil Overbeck is at No. 107. In the March 5 doubles poll, the duo of Mikey Wright and Alex Chang is ranked 65th.

Scouting the Bears

With his wins over the weekend, Lucas Magnaudet leads the team with two clinching victories
Carl Emil Overbeck (vs. UCSD), Alex Chang (vs. Pepperdine), Timofey Stepanov (vs. UC Davis) and John Kim (vs. UC Davis) have each also clinched a Cal win this season
Berkeley natives Mikey Wright and Alex Chang have a 4-0 doubles record
Chang (17-7) and Wright (16-9) rank 1-2 in Cal doubles wins
Ryder Jackson, who did not play for the Bears in the fall, has records of 5-3 in singles and 5-4 in doubles
Chang (16-8), sophomore Jonathan Irwanto (16-11) and freshman Timofey Stepanov (16-11) are tied for the Cal lead in singles wins
Overbeck, who has records of 14-11 in singles and 13-8 in doubles, captured the singles title at the Jack Kramer Invitational to close the first half of the season
China native Qian Sun – a 22-year-old sophomore with a career-best ATP doubles ranking of 470 – signed with the Cal in February
Kris Kwinta (UCLA '08) is in his third season as the Peter Wright Director of Men's Tennis
Francis Sargeant (BYU '15) is in his third season as a Cal assistant coach
Former Santa Clara star Vasileios Iliopoulos is in his first season as a Cal assistant coach

Scouting the Dons

USF split its last two matches, losing to Northern Arizona, 4-3, last Monday and beating Hawaii, 4-0, last Tuesday
Giovanni Branchetti and Davide Cortimiglia won the doubles title at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic in January
JT Sundling is in his third season as head coach of San Francisco

Next Time
The Bears return to Pac-12 Conference play when they travel to the Grand Canyon State to take on Arizona on March 29 and Arizona State on March 31.

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Players Mentioned

Siddhant Banthia

Alex Chang

Jonathan Irwanto

Ryder Jackson

John Kim

Lucas Magnaudet

Carl Emil Overbeck

Timofey Stepanov

Mikey Wright