The No. 35 California women's tennis team (5-4, 2-0 ACC) continues ACC play with two matches this weekend – against No. 27 Stanford in the Big Slam on the Farm and at home against No. 60 SMU at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Golden Bears (5-4, 2-0 ACC) had been scheduled to host 55th-ranked San Diego on Wednesday, but that match was postponed due to rain.
 
Saturday's match at Stanford's recently built Taube Pavilion includes live scores only, while the live stream and live scores will be in effect Sunday at Hellman.
 
At No. 27 Stanford (9-2, 2-0 ACC)
Noon PT, Saturday
Taube Pavilion, Stanford, Calif.
Live Scores: StatBroadcast
 
Vs. No. 60 SMU (8-7, 2-2 ACC)
Noon PT, Sunday
Hellman Tennis Complex, Berkeley, Calif.
Live Stream: PlaySight
Live Scores: StatBroadcast
Admission: Free
 
Last Week: Bears Sweep Waves, Eagles, Orange
Cal produced a challenging schedule last week that included playing then-No. 20 Pepperdine on Thursday, Boston College on Friday and then-No. 56 Syracuse on Saturday at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Bears defeated the Waves 5-2 in the teams' second meeting of the season, with Jessica Alsola clinching the Bears' win when she bested 59th-ranked Anastsiia Grechkina 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-2. Against the Eagles, Mao Mushika beat Olivia Benton 6-2, 6-1 to clinch the 7-0 rout. In the 5-2 win over Syracuse, Berta Passola Folch became the fifth different Bear to clinch a win this season when she defeated Shiori Ito 6-4, 6-0.
 
Poll Position
The Bears had seven representatives in last week's individual ITA polls, including, in singles, No. 40 Mao Mushika, No. 46 Katja Wiersholm, No. 86 Lan Mi and No. 110 Greta Greco Lucchina. Three Cal pairs are ranked in doubles in No. 16 Mushika and Wiersholm, No. 47 Mushika and Jessica Alsola, and No. 77 Alsola and Wiersholm.
 
Cal is one of 13 ACC teams in the ITA team poll that came out Tuesday, including No. 3 Virginia, No. 4 North Carolina, No. 5 NC State, No. 7 Duke, No. 22 Clemson, No. 23 Notre Dame, No. 24 Georgia Tech, No. 27 Stanford, No. 32 Wake Forest, No. 47 Virginia Tech, No. 60 SMU and No. 62 Syracuse.
 
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 5-2 doubles record with Mushika and is 11-5 in singles
• Mushika, a sophomore who reached the second round of NCAA singles, has 14-8 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 16-6 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 14-7 in singles
• Sophomore Tiziana-Marie Schomburg is 10-5 in singles
• Freshman Greta Greco Lucchina, who joined the Bears in early January, is 10-2 in singles
• Greco Lucchina beat Tyra Richardson 6-4, 6-3 to record one of those 10 wins and clinch Cal's 6-1 rout of UC Santa Barbara on March 1 in Berkeley
• Freshman Naomi Xu is 8-8 in singles, while first-year Bear Sophie Hernandez is 11-5 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 Stanford

• The Cardinal hosts SMU on Friday
• Last week, Stanford began its ACC slate with a 4-1 win over Syracuse and a 5-2 victory over Boston College
• Three Cardinal players are ranked in singles in No. 6 Valerie Glozman, No. 20 Connie Ma and No. 68 Valencia Xu
• Glozman and Ma are ranked 37th in doubles
• Frankie Brennan is in his first season as the Peter and Helen Bing Director of Women's Tennis

Scouting SMU

• The Mustangs play on the Farm on Friday
• In its previous match, SMU lost to then-No. 53 Tulsa 4-3 in Dallas
• Drew Morris is ranked 120th and Sophie Llewellyn is ranked 124th in singles
• In doubles, Llewellyn and Ellie Pittman are ranked 45th, while Kayla Schefke and Arianna Stavropoulos are ranked 64th
• Jeff Nevolo is in his sixth year as head coach of SMU 

Next Time
The Bears head to the East Coast for four matches starting with a March 21 ACC battle at Virginia.
 
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