The California women's tennis team returns to the Hellman Tennis Complex to host a nonconference match against 46th-ranked UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.
 
Cal (1-4) vs. No. 46 UC Santa Barbara (2-5)
When: Saturday, March 1, Noon PT
Where: Hellman Tennis Complex, Berkeley, Calif.
Live Stream: PlaySight
Live Scores: StatBroadcast
Admission: Free
 
Poll Position
Four Bears are ranked in the ITA singles poll – No. 37 Katja Wiersholm, No. 65 Mao Mushika, No. 70 Lan Mi and No. 106 Berta Passola Folch. Two sets of Bears are ranked in doubles in No. 14 Mushika and Wiersholm and No. 37 Mushika and Jessica Alsola.
 
Last Time Out
Cal fell against a pair of nationally ranked opponents in No. 18 USC on Feb. 21 in Los Angeles in a 4-3 setback and No. 25 Pepperdine 5-2 on Feb. 22 in Malibu.
 
Last Time Vs. Gauchos
In Cal's last match vs. UCSB on Feb. 25 of last season, Lan Mi defeated Katarina Vayser 6-1, 6-2 to clinch No. 16 Cal's 6-1 victory over the 57th-ranked Gauchos in the home opener at Hellman.
 
Scouting Cal

• All-American Katja Wiersholm has a singles record of 8-5
• Wiersholm was one of four Bears – including Mao Mushika, Lan Mi and Jessica Alsola – who competed in the NCAA individual championships at Baylor in the fall
• Wiersholm advanced to the NCAA singles round of 16 to earn All-America singles honors in Waco, Texas
• Alsola, who paired with Mushika at NCAA doubles in Waco, has a 3-2 doubles record with Mushika and is 8-6 in singles
• Mushika, a sophomore who reached the second round of NCAA singles, has a 10-8 singles mark
• Mushika was the first Bear to earn ACC honors when she was named the ACC Player of the Week on Jan. 14 after posting records of 3-0 in singles and 3-0 in doubles in the Cal Winter Invitational
• Mi, a senior who also advanced to the NCAA singles second round, has a 12-6 singles record
• One of Mi's wins – a 6-1, 6-4 triumph over Dania Deafi – clinched Cal's win over Grand Canyon in the opening match of the ITA Kickoff Weekend on Jan. 24 in Berkeley
• Berta Passola Folch, a junior, is 11-7 in singles
• Sophomore Tiziana-Marie Schomburg is 10-5 in singles
• Freshman Greta Greco Lucchina, who joined the Bears in early January, is 7-1 in singles
• Amanda Augustus – a Cal Athletics Hall of Famer, two-time NCAA doubles champion, 2021 Pac-12 Coach of the Year and five-time ITA Northwest Region Coach of the Year – is in her 18th year as head coach at her alma mater

• Assistant coach and former Cal women's tennis player Stephanie Kusano Wallace is in her first year on the Cal staff

 
Scouting UCSB

• UC Santa Barbara plays at No. 38 Stanford on Friday
• UCSB lost its previous two matches at Arizona, falling to the host Wildcats 4-3 on Feb. 14 and to No. 23 Texas Tech 4-3 on Feb. 15
• UCSB's biggest win of the season was a 4-1 victory over No. 21 Vanderbilt on Jan. 25 in the ITA Kickoff Weekend at Michigan
• Two Gauchos are ranked in singles in No. 14 Amelia Honer and No. 75 Marie Weissheim
• The doubles team of Honer and Weissheim is ranked 10th
• Simon Thibodeau is in his 13th year as head coach of UC Santa Barbara

 
Next Time
Cal hosts No. 28 Pepperdine on March 6 at the Hellman Tennis Complex for the teams' second meeting of the season.
 
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