ATHENS, Ga. – A long season that included the move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, competing in the NCAA individual championships in the fall for the first time and playing in several road matches to end the year concluded Friday for the 19th-ranked California women's tennis team. Playing in the NCAA Championship Super Regionals, the Golden Bears fell to top-ranked and top-seeded Georgia 4-0 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex to wrap up another exemplary year.
 
Cal finished 2024-25 with a 15-9 record. Georgia improved to 26-3 and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals.
 
The teams had a close battle for the doubles point that included a top-five clash on court one between fourth-ranked Bears Jessica Alsola and Mao Mushika and Georgia's top-ranked Mell Reasco and Dasha Vidmanova. On court three, Cal's Berta Passola Folch and Naomi Xu fell to Aysegul Mert and Hayden Mulberry 6-2. Later, with court one locked in a 5-5 tie, Cal's Greta Greco Lucchina and Lan Mi lost to 68th-ranked Guillermina Grant and Anastasiia Lopata 6-4 to hand the doubles point to Georgia.
 
In singles, Bears won first sets against higher ranked opposition on the top two courts, as 32nd-ranked Mushika won her first set against second-ranked Vidmanova 7-6(2) on court one and 59th-ranked Alsola claimed a 7-5 first-set win over 17th-ranked Lopata 7-5 on court two. But Passola Folch fell to 42nd-ranked Mert 6-1, 6-0, Greco Lucchina lost to 74th-ranked Grant 6-2, 6-4, and Xu dropped a 6-2, 6-4 4 result to Sofia Rojas to complete the season for the Bears.
 
Friday's match marked Cal's seventh straight on the road, with two matches to end the regular season, two matches in the ACC Championship and three NCAA Championship contests, including the Bears' first- and second-round wins in Seattle last week. Friday's result also marked the second straight year that Cal fell to the Bulldogs in the super regionals in Athens.
 
"Doubles was really close today," Cal head coach Amanda Augustus said. "I thought we'd close it out on court one, two was coming around, and winning the doubles point would've been important for our momentum. Once the doubles point didn't go our way, they took advantage of that momentum. We fought really hard in singles. We were winning on courts one and two and had a chance to turn it around on three.
 
"We played a better and more competitive match than this time last year. We battled hard and competed well as a team. This team improved a lot and worked through a lot this season. I'm proud of them."
 
The ITA will release its final team, singles and doubles rankings of the season May 21, when Cal could move higher in the team poll based on its run to the super regionals. Additionally, one of the criteria for earning All-America doubles honors is finishing in the top 10 in the last ITA poll, which gives Alsola and Mushika a chance to earn All-America status. That would give Cal three All-Americans for the season including Katja Wiersholm, who became a singles All-American in the fall.
 
NCAA Championship Super Regional Round
May 9, 2025, in Athens, Ga.
Dan Magill Tennis Complex
 
Doubles
1. No. 4 Jessica Alsola/Mao Mushika (Cal) vs. No. 1 Mell Reasco/Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia), 5-5 Unfinished
2. No. 68 Guillermina Grant/Anastasiia Lopata (Georgia) def. Greta Greco Lucchina/Lan Mi (Cal), 6-4*
3. Aysegul Mert/Hayden Mulberry (Georgia) def. Berta Passola Folch/Naomi Xu (Cal), 6-2
 
Order of Finish – 3, 2*
*Clinched the doubles point for Georgia
 
Singles
1. No. 32 Mao Mushika (Cal) vs. No. 2 Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia), 7-6(2), 0-4 Unfinished
2. No. 59 Jessica Alsola (Cal) vs. No. 17 Anastasiia Lopata (Georgia), 7-5, 2-3 Unfinished
3. Mell Reasco (Georgia) vs. No. 44 Lan Mi (Cal), 6-3, 4-4 Unfinished
4. No. 42 Aysegul Mert (Georgia) def. Berta Passola Folch (Cal), 6-1, 6-0
5. No. 74 Guillermina Grant (Georgia) def. Greta Greco Lucchina (Cal), 6-2, 6-4
6. Sofia Rojas (Georgia) def. Naomi Xu (Cal), 6-2, 6-4^
 
Order of Finish – 4, 5, 6^
*Clinched the overall win for Georgia
 
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