California women’s tennis player Berta Passola Folch advanced to the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship on Tuesday after defeating UCLA’s Mayu Crossley 6-1, 6-1 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando. Passola Folch, ranked 113th, will next compete against Texas A&M’s Mia Kupres, who is ranked 22nd.
Mao Mushika, a junior and the team’s highest-ranked singles player at No. 17, lost a close three-set match to Charlotte’s Ni Xi by scores of 7-6(2), 6-7(3), 7-5.
Sophomores Greta Greco Lucchina and Naomi Xu also made their first appearances in the NCAA singles tournament. Greco Lucchina, ranked No. 125, was defeated by USC’s Jana Hossam with a score of 6-3, 6-1. Xu lost her match to Appalachian State’s Savannah Dada-Mascoll, who is seeded fourth and ranked No. 106 nationally; the final score was 6-3, 6-3.
Greco Lucchina and Mushika are scheduled to return for doubles play on Wednesday in the NCAA Doubles Championship. They will face Vanderbilt’s Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster in the opening round.
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