After a strong performance at the Battle in the Bay Classic, the California men's tennis team sends Golden Bears to compete in the ITA All-American Championships and Sherwood Collegiate Cup. Alex Chang, Derrick Chen, Theo Dean, Carl Emil Overbeck, Timofey Stepanov and Mikey Wright will play at All-Americans, through which players can qualify for the NCAA individual championships. Chang – pulling double duty – Alex Aney, Jonathan Irwanto and Ethan Schiffman will play in the Southern California tournament.
 
In the Sherwood Collegiate Cup, which starts Friday, players from nine teams – Cal, BYU, LMU, New Mexico, Pacific, Pepperdine, SMU, UCLA and USC – will battle in singles and doubles.
 
The ITA All-American Championships, which begin Saturday, will have a draw size of the following, Singles: Pre-Qualifying (128), qualifying (64), main draw (64) and Doubles: Pre-Qualifying (32), qualifying (32), main draw (32). From this, 10 singles players will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship (eight main draw quarterfinalists & two feed-in consolation finalists), while four doubles teams will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship through the All-American Championships (four main draw semifinalists). Pre-qualifying takes place Friday and Saturday, qualifying runs Sunday and Monday and the main draws are slated for Sept. 25-29.
 
Here are more details for Cal's competitions this week:
 
At Sherwood Collegiate Cup
When: Sept. 20-22
Where: Sherwood Country Club, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
ITA Tournament Website
 
At ITA All-American Championships
When: Sept. 21-29
Where: Michael D. Case Tennis Center, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla.
Watch: Live Streaming – Cracked Racquets; Live Streaming – TrackTennis
Draws
ITA Tournament Website
 
Overbeck Wins Triple Crown At Battle In The Bay
Carl Emil Overbeck capped his final appearance in the recent Battle in the Bay Classic by capturing the singles title, the doubles title with Theo Dean and the singles shootout at the California Tennis Club. Three Bears – Overbeck, Dean and Stepanov – reached the singles quarterfinals, while two pairs – including the duo of Chang and Wright – advanced to the doubles quarterfinals of the tournament, which ended Sunday.
 
On Saturday night, Overbeck defeated Arizona's Jay Friend 10-3 and UC Santa Barbara's Gianluca Brunkow 10-8 to prevail in the singles shootout and earn wild-card entry to the singles main draw of the upcoming Solano Challenger, which is part of the ATP Challenger Tour.
 
On Sunday morning, the 25th-ranked Dean and Overbeck defeated TCU's Duncan Chan and Michigan State's Danial Rakhmatullayev 8-6 in the doubles final, and in the afternoon, the 56th-ranked Overbeck beat TCU's 39th-ranked Lui Maxted 7-6(8), 6-4 in the singles final. By winning the singles crown in the annual San Francisco tournament, the Copenhagen, Denmark, product garnered wild-card entry into the singles main draw of the Tiburon Challenger, another tournament on the ATP Challenger Tour. A senior, Overbeck previously partnered with now Cal alumnus Yuta Kikuchi to win the 2021 and 2022 doubles titles at the Battle in the Bay Classic.
 
Last Time At All-Americans
At the 2023 ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Carl Emil Overbeck reached the singles main draw after defeating Princeton's 73rd-ranked Top Nidunjianzan 6-4, 6-3, Baylor's 72nd-ranked Oskar Brostrom Poulsen 7-5, 2-1 (ret. inj.) and Mississippi State's Benito Sanchez Martinez 6-3, 6-2 in qualifying. But the Dane lost in the first round of the main draw to Indiana's Sam Landau 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, before splitting two matches in the consolation draw.
 
Cal's pair of Overbeck and Derrick Chen and team of Alex Chang and Timofey Stepanov competed in doubles qualifying but did not advance to the main draw.
 
Last Time At The Sherwood Collegiate Cup
In the previous Sherwood Collegiate Cup – an invitational played in January 2024 – the Bears posted six wins over USC, seven victories over UCLA and three wins over Texas A&M. They did well in doubles, going 8-5 over the three-day event.
 
Poll Position
In the first ITA individual polls of the 2024-25 season, the Bears earned three singles rankings – No. 44 Theo Dean, No. 56 Carl Emil Overbeck and No. 123 Alex Chang – along with two doubles rankings – No. 13 Alex Chang and Mikey Wright and No. 25 Dean and Overbeck.
 
Cal Alums In Davis Cup
In Davis Cup World Group I play, Cal alumni contributed to recent first-round wins for Sweden and Denmark. The Swedes beat India 4-0 last weekend in Stockholm, with former Cal teammates Andre Goransson and Filip Bergevi defeating N Sriram Balaji and Ramkumar Ramanthan 6-3, 6-4 in doubles. Also last weekend, the Danes knocked off host Kazakhstan 3-1 in Astana, with former Bear Philip Hjorth dropping a close match to Belbit Zhukayev 3-6, 6-4, 10-8.
 
Next Time
The Bears play in the Aggie Invitational from Sept. 27-29 at UC Davis.
 
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