Biography
2021-22: Cal’s top player, Giavara earned the second singles All-America honor of her career, was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team and was named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll…she competed in the NCAA Singles Championship to cap the year, defeating Oklahoma State’s 20th-ranked Lisa Marie Rioux, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, to reach the round of 16…the San Diego native ended the season with a No. 36 singles ranking and with Valentina Ivanov a No. 40 doubles ranking…Giavara posted records of 15-14 in singles and 21-9 in doubles…Giavara and Ivanov won the top-flight doubles titles in the Bears’ annual tournaments, the Cal Fall Invitational and the Cal Winter Invitational …Giavara clinched three Cal victories – defeating Leah Heimuli, 6-4, 6-4, in a 4-0 win over BYU in the ITA Kickoff Weekend opener; beating Antonia Balzert, 6-1, 6-3, in a 6-1 triumph over Colorado; and besting Vanessa Wong, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, in Cal’s 4-3 win at No. 28 Washington…also in the Cal win over BYU, Giavara and Ivanov defeted Heimuli and Helen Jiao, 6-2, to clinch the doubles point.
Spring 2021: Capped another strong year with a No. 27 singles ranking and – with Valentina Ivanov – a No. 50 doubles ranking in the final Oracle ITA polls of the 2021 spring season…Giavara, who competed in both the NCAA Singles Championship and with Ivanov in the NCAA Doubles Championship, finished with a 12-13 singles record (12-12 one court one) and a 15-9 doubles mark in her second year as a Golden Bear…Giavara and Ivanov posted a 13-8 doubles record (including 13-7 on court one)…in singles, Giavara notched an impressive win over Pepperdine’s 33rd-ranked Jessica Failla, 6-4, 6-1, on March 23 in Malibu…Giavara defeated 39th-ranked Michaela Gordon, 6-2, 6-3, in Cal’s 4-1 win over Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship semifinals…in the Pac-12 final win over top-seeded UCLA, Giavara beat eighth-ranked Abbey Forbes, 6-4, 6-2, to tie the match 1-1 before Cal eventually won 4-2…Giavara and Ivanov posted notable wins over two opposing pairs ranked No. 1 at the time…Giavara earned her first Pac-12 Player of the Week honor on March 23 after leading Cal to a sweep of the Arizona teams...in Cal's 7-0 rout of the Wildcats on March 19, the 18th-ranked Giavara defeated Jelena Lukic, 7-5, 7-6(5), at court-one singles, and the 40th-ranked pair of Giavara and Valentina Ivanov beat Lukic and Khim Iglupas, 6-2, to help the Bears claim the doubles point…on March 20, Giavara bested ASU's 37th-ranked Ilze Hattingh, 6-3, 6-2, as Cal cruised to a 6-1 victory over the Sun Devils...on Feb. 20 during the regular season, the Bears upset UCLA’s top-ranked Elysia Bolton and Jada Hart, 6-4, and on Feb. 8 in an NCAA second-round match vs. Kentucky, the Cal duo topped the Wildcats’ top-ranked Avile Parazinskaite and Fiona Arrese, 7-6(6), to clinch the doubles point of an eventual 4-2 Cal win.
Spring 2020: Named an ITA singles All-American and the ITA Northwest Regional Rookie of the Year, Giavara completed an impressive freshman season with records of 19-7 in singles (including 7-2 in singles in the spring) and 13-7 in doubles…Giavara was ranked 15th as of the March 3 Oracle ITA singles poll and ranked 31st with Anna Bright (9-4 record) in the March 3 doubles rankings…defeated UCLA’s ninth-ranked Elysia Bolton, 6-4, 7-6(5), to give Giavara four singles wins over players ranked in the top 10 this season…Giavara beat Virginia’s 35th-ranked Rosie Johanson, 6-2, 6-4, in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend in Kansas…posted her first clinching win as a Bear when she knocked off San Diego State’s Nnena Nadozie, 6-2, 6-3, on Cal’s 7-0 rout of the Aztecs…had a 3-2 doubles record with Valentina Ivanov, with the two freshmen topping the Trojans’ 16th-ranked Eryn Cayetano and Angela Kulikov, 6-2, in the Bears’ 6-1 win over No. 37 USC.
Fall 2019: Had a remarkable debut as a Golden Bear, with Giavara posting a 12-5 singles record and a 9-4 doubles mark in the first half of the season…unranked in singles to start the season, Giavara earned a No. 21 ranking in the last Oracle ITA poll of the fall…in doubles, Giavara and Julia Rosenqvist began the season ranked 44th, with Giavara and Anna Bright ending the fall with a No. 13 ranking…after a run to the top-flight singles round of 16 in the Cal Fall Invitational, Giavara reached the singles quarterfinals of the Women’s Collegiate Classic, ITA Northwest Regional Championships and Oracle ITA National Fall Championships…Giavara collected some notable upset wins in singles, including a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory over Duke’s top-seeded and fifth-ranked Kelly Chen in the Collegiate Classic round of 16; a 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 win over Stanford’s sixth-ranked Michaela Gordon in the fall nationals round of 32; and a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 triumph over North Carolina’s fourth-ranked Alexa Graham in the fall nationals round of 16…Giavara added a 6-4, 6-1 upset of Michigan’s 47th-ranked Giulia Pairone in Collegiate Classic consolation match…in doubles, she teamed with fellow freshman Valentina Ivanov to reach the top-flight semifinals in the Cal Fall Invite…Giavara later paired with Bright to reach the semifinals at regionals and in fall nationals…at nationals, the Bears defeated three opposing pairs that each ended the fall with a national ranking, with Giavara/Bright beating Penn’s 16th-ranked Iuliia Bryzgalova/Marjia Curnic, 6-4, 6-1, in the round of 32; Northern Arizona’s 25th-ranked Mimi Bland/Adrianna Sosnowska, 6-3, 6-3, in the round of 16; and Wake Forest’s 10th-ranked MC Meredith/Eliza Omirou, 6-4, 6-0, in the quarterfinals...Giavara and Bright ended the fall with a 6-2 doubles record.
PERSONAL/PREVIOUS: Legal studies and sociology major…highest WTA singles ranking is 650 and highest WTA doubles ranking is 606…was one of the top recruits in the nation who was ranked as high as 11th by TennisRecruiting.net in the spring of 2019…defeated Katherine Sebov, who’s been tabbed as high as 199 in the WTA rankings, in straight sets in the 25K National Bank Challenger Gatineau in Canada in 2019…took third place in doubles and got to the round of 16 in singles in the 2019 USTA Girls 18 National Championships…reached the singles and doubles semifinals of a 15K tournament in Greece in 2018…won a Grade 5 ITF Junior Event in Nicaragua in singles and doubles in 2017….won doubles at a Grade 5 ITF Junior Doubles event in Canada in 2017…parents are Jada Coleman and Jason Giavara…Jason Giavara played tennis at Coastal Carolina and was named to the Big South’s All-Decade Team in singles and doubles in the 1980s.
