BERKELEY – Four members of the California women's tennis team – Valentina Ivanov, Mao Mushika, Hannah Viller Moeller and Katja Wiersholm – will close out the season when they compete in the NCAA individual championships next week in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Ivanov, Viller Moeller and Wiersholm start play in the NCAA Singles Championship on Monday while Viller Moeller and Mushika play in the NCAA Doubles Championship starting Tuesday at the Greenwood Tennis Center.
 
The draws for the 64-player singles tournament and the 32-team doubles tournament will be released Sunday.
 
Match Details
 
NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships
 
When: (singles) May 20-25 / (doubles) May 21-25
Where: Greenwood Tennis Center, Stillwater, Okla.
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Wiersholm, Ivanov and Viller Moeller are each hoping to win Cal's first NCAA singles title since 2011, when Jana Juricova won the program's second singles championship. Susie Babos won the first in 2006. Mushika and Viller Moeller seek to win Cal's first doubles championship since 2009, when Juricova and Mari Andersson captured the most recent of Cal's five doubles titles. Cal head coach Amanda Augustus and Amy Jensen – the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Century – won the Bears' first two NCAA doubles (and overall championships) in 1998 and 1999), Jensen posted a personal threepeat when she partnered with Claire Curran to claim the title in 2000, and Raquel (Kops-Jones) Atawo and Christina Fusano won it in 2003.
 
This marks the first time each of the Bears will compete in her respective postseason tournament. Ivanov and Wiersholm previously played in the NCAA Doubles Championship, with Ivanov partnering with Haley Giavara in 2021 and Wiersholm teaming with Jessica Alsola in 2023.
 
Mushika, a freshman, and Viller Moeller, now a Cal graduate, have earned a No. 18 ranking and compiled a 25-13 record. The pair had a strong start to the season, winning the top doubles title in the Cal Fall Invitational and capturing the crown in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships. The two Bears reached the round of 16 in the ITA National Fall Championships, with their loss at nationals representing their lone setback in the fall, when they finished 11-1.
 
A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Viller Moeller is ranked 44th in singles with a 23-21 record in her final season at Cal. In the fall, Viller Moeller won the singles title in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and reached the singles quarterfinals of the ITA National Fall Championships. In the Pac-12 Championship quarterfinals, she defeated Chelsea Fontenel, 6-3, 6-3, on court one to clinch 10th-ranked Cal's 5-0 win over 27th-ranked Arizona State.
 
Another recent graduate, Ivanov improved her singles record to 18-10 with clinching wins against Sacramento State and Auburn in the Bears' first two rounds of the NCAA Championship. Currently ranked 43rd in singles, the Sydney, Australia, product was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on March 26 for her part in the Bears' regular-season triumphs over Hawaii, Colorado and Utah. Ivanov competed for New Zealand in the Billie Jean King Cup in early April, and she beat 25th-ranked Kimmi Hance, 6-0, 6-2, in Cal's 4-2 triumph over top-seeded UCLA in the Pac-12 Championship semifinals later that month.
 
Ranked 49th, Wiersholm has a 25-7 singles record and has clinched four Cal wins this season, including a 5-2 result at Washington, the 4-0 season-opening win over Illinois, a 6-1 thrashing of Utah and a 4-3 win over UCLA. Early in the season, the junior from Kirkland, Washington, won the top-flight singles title at the Cal Fall Invitational and advanced to the quarterfinals at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships.
 
6 Bears Named All-Pac-12
Six Bears earned All-Pac-12 distinction for 2023-24, with Jessica Alsola and Lan Mi joining the four selected to the NCAA individual championships in collecting conference accolades. Valentina Ivanov and Hannah Viller Moeller garnered berths on the first team, juniors Alsola and Katja Wiersholm claimed second-team spots, and newcomers Mi, a junior, and Mushika, a freshman, claimed honorable mention.
 
Alsola has now collected three All-Pac-12 accolades, including a first-team selection last season and a second-team nod in 2022. She finished her season with records of 25-17 in singles and 29-9 in doubles. Ranked 81st in singles, the Fresno product is ranked with three different partners in doubles – No. 51 with Ivanov (16-5), No. 67 with Berta Passola Folch (3-1) and No. 81 with Wiersholm (8-3). Alsola had a good start to the season when she reached the singles quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships in October and competed at the ITA National Fall Championships in November, when she advanced to the consolation singles final. In the spring, Alsola clinched three Cal victories. Alsola and Mi played together for the first time as a doubles team in the NCAA first-round win over Sacramento State and clinched the doubles point against the Hornets.
 
Mi hit a big mark when she captured her 40th singles win of the season in Cal's 4-0, NCAA second-round win over No. 17 Auburn. A transfer from Cornell who calls Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, home, Mi only lost twice in singles in the fall and put together a 16-match singles win streak in the middle of the season. She ended her season on a seven-match win streak and with a 40-5 record. Mi clinched three Cal wins – a 5-2 result at San Diego State, a 6-1 rout of UCSB and, in the ITA Kickoff Weekend, a 4-3 win over host and No. 16 Oklahoma that qualified the Bears for the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. In doubles, Mi posted an 11-11 record, including a 9-4 record mark when paired with Tiziana-Marie Schomburg.
 
Last Time: Cal Falls In Athens
The team portion of the season ended for No. 10 Cal in a 4-2 loss to No. 7 Georgia in the NCAA Super Regionals last Friday in Athens, Georgia. The match concluded when the 49th-ranked Katja Wiersholm fell to the Bulldogs' 65th-ranked Mell Reasco 7-5, 6-4.
 
Jessica Alsola beat Anastasiia Lopata 6-1, 7-5 and Berta Passola Folch won 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 over Mai Nirundorn for the Golden Bears.
 
Cal closed the season with a 20-7 record.
 
Cal Coaching Staff
The Golden Bears are led by Cal Athletics Hall of Famer and two-time NCAA doubles champion Amanda Augustus. The 2021 Pac-12 Coach of the Year and a five-time ITA Northwest Region Coach of the Year, Augustus is in her 17th year as head coach at her alma mater. Assistant coach and former Cal men's tennis player Sean Hill is in his second year on the staff.
 
Last Year In NCAA Singles, Doubles
Last May in Orlando, Jessica Alsola competed in both the NCAA Singles Championship and – with Katja Wiersholm – the NCAA Doubles Championship. Ranked 55th in singles, the sophomore fell to Georgia's third-ranked Lea Ma, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, in the singles round of 64. In doubles, Wiersholm and Alsola dropped a 6-1, 6-4 result to North Carolina's eighth-ranked Elizabeth Scotty and Reese Brantmeier in the round of 32.
 
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