The California women’s tennis team, currently ranked 15th in the nation, is set to begin its spring season with a schedule featuring at least 18 dual matches. The program will play 11 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) contests and host 10 home matches, with at least eight of those games against nationally ranked opponents. The spring campaign opens with the Cal Winter Invitational on Friday.
Following the winter tournament, Cal will participate in the ITA Kickoff Weekend held in Austin, Texas. During this event, the Golden Bears are scheduled to face No. 25 Baylor on January 24. Depending on results, they will then play either host team Texas—ranked 12th—or Arizona on January 25. The winner of this four-team competition advances to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship, which will be co-hosted by Northwestern and Illinois from February 6 to February 10.
Cal’s first two home dual matches are against No. 17 UCLA on January 30 and No. 19 USC on January 31. The ACC home opener comes against Clemson on February 20 and begins a four-match stretch against conference opponents that includes a visit from No. 11 NC State on February 27. This homestand concludes with a nonconference matchup versus No. 21 Pepperdine on March 8; Cal will later travel to Malibu for a rematch with Pepperdine on March 15.
After these games, Cal embarks on a four-match ACC road trip before returning home for three consecutive matches to close out the regular season: hosting No.14 Virginia (April 3), Virginia Tech (April 5), and ninth-ranked Stanford (April 8). The ACC Championship is scheduled for April 14-19 in Cary, North Carolina.
The winner of the conference tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship taking place from May 1-14 in Orlando, Florida—a venue that also hosted last November’s NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships. At that event, Cal senior Berta Passola Folch finished as national runner-up in singles and earned All-America honors; she was one of four Golden Bears competing in singles alongside Mao Mushika, Greta Greco Lucchina, and Naomi Xu. Additionally, Mushika—an All-American for doubles in the current academic year—and Greco Lucchina represented Cal in doubles competition.
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