BERKELEY – The California women's tennis team saw its top doubles team reach the final of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships when Mao Mushika and Greta Greco Lucchina won twice under cloudy skies Monday at the Hellman Tennis Complex to advance to Tuesday's title match. The Golden Bears will play a Washington State pair, with the champion qualifying for the NCAA Doubles Championship in November.
 
The fifth-seeded Bears defeated Stanford's fourth-seeded and 90th-ranked Monika Ekstrand and Valerie Glozman 8-6 in the quarterfinal round before besting Sacramento State's ninth-seeded Irene Riva and Lou Baudouin 3-6, 6-3, 1-0(7) in the semifinals. Mushika and Greco Lucchina face the Cougars' Eva Alvarez Sand and Maxine Murphy in Tuesday's final. If the Bears prevail and reach the postseason, it would mark the third appearance in NCAA doubles for Mushika, who competed in the postseason in 2023-24 partnered with Hannah Viller Moeller and in 2024-25 with Jessica Alsola.
 
Along with the doubles quarterfinals and semifinals, Cal hosted one of the two singles semifinals, with the Bears' eighth-seeded and 113th-ranked Berta Passola Folch falling to Stanford's fifth-seeded Alyssa Ahn 6-3, 7-5. The Cardinal player – who qualified for the NCAA Singles Championship by reaching the regional final – will next take on the winner of the other semifinal between Mushika and Cal's Naomi Xu in the final. Whichever Bear wins the semifinal will also qualify for NCAA singles, which Mushika competed in for the first time last season.
 
Rain forced the postponement of the second singles semifinal – which had been slated to take place Monday – to Tuesday at 9 a.m. PT at Hellman. The doubles final follows at 11 a.m. PT, and the singles final – the last match of the Berkeley regional – follows doubles at a time to be determined.
 
ITA Northwest Regional Championships
Oct. 13, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif.
Hellman Tennis Complex
 
Main Draw Doubles – Quarterfinal Round
[5] Mao Mushika/Greta Greco Lucchina (Cal) def. [4] No. 90 Monika Ekstrand/Valerie Glozman (Stanford), 8-6
[9] Irene Riva/Lou Baudouin (Sac State) def. [7] Olivia Symons/Hinata Furutani (Oregon), 8-7(5)
[2] No. 58 Eva Alvarez Sande/Maxine Murphy (WSU) def. [8] Reece Carter/Jermine Sherif (UW), 8-3
[3] No. 64 Erika Matsuda/Carina Syrtveit (UW) def. [6] Caroline Driscoll/Alyssa Ahn (Stanford), 8-5
 
Main Draw Doubles – Semifinal Round
[5] Mao Mushika/Greta Greco Lucchina (Cal) def. [9] Irene Riva/Lou Baudouin (Sac State), 3-6, 6-3, 1-0(7)
[2] No. 58 Eva Alvarez Sande/Maxine Murphy (WSU) def. [3] No. 64 Erika Matsuda/Carina Syrtveit (UW), 6-3, 6-3
 
Main Draw Singles – Semifinal Round
[5] Alyssa Ahn (Stanford) def. [8] No. 113 Berta Passola Folch (Cal), 6-3, 7-5
 
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