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Jessica Alsola will return to the NCAA individual championships for the third time when the Bears compete in Waco.
Four Golden Bears will represent the California women’s tennis team at the NCAA individual championships in the first year that the national tournaments will take place in the fall. Cal is tied for the most singles entrants, with Katja Wiersholm, Mao Mushika and Lan Mi competing in the NCAA Singles Championship starting Tuesday at Baylor. The pair of Mushika and Jessica Alsola plays in the NCAA Doubles Championship starting Wednesday at the Hurd Tennis Center.
The Bears are looking to add to the storied program’s total of seven NCAA individual titles – five in doubles (Amanda Augustus/Amy Jensen, 1998; Augustus/Jensen, 1999; Jensen/Claire Curran, 2000; Raquel [Kops-Jones] Atawo/Christina Fusano, 2003; Mari Andersson/Jana Juricova, 2009) and two in singles (Susie Babos, 2006; Juricova, 2011).
Here are the details for the final competitions of the fall:
NCAA Individual Championships
When: Tuesday, 7 a.m. PT; Wednesday, 7 a.m. PT; Thursday, 8 a.m. PT; Friday, 8 a.m. PT; Saturday, 8 a.m. PT; Sunday, 9 a.m. PT
Where: Baylor, Hurd Tennis Center, Waco, Texas
Watch: ESPN+ (Cracked Racquets CrossCourt Cast), PlaySight
Draws: Singles, Doubles
Live scores: Sidearm Stats
Baylor’s NCAA Championship Site
Poll Position
Five Bears are ranked in the first ITA singles poll of 2024-25 – No. 30 Jessica Alsola, No. 33 Katja Wiersholm, No. 80 Lan Mi, No. 106 Berta Passola Folch and No. 107 Mao Mushika. Three Cal pairs are ranked in doubles – No. 16 Alsola and Mushika, No. 25 Passola Folch and Wiersholm, and No. 79 Mi and freshman Naomi Xu.
Alsola, Mushika Qualify For NCAA Doubles
In September, the Cal pair of senior Jessica Alsola and sophomore Mao Mushika – playing in their first tournament as a doubles team – reached the doubles semifinals of the ITA All-American Championships in Cary, North Carolina, to qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championships. The 16th-ranked Bears defeated Vanderbilt’s 29th-ranked Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster 6-2, 6-2 in the quarterfinals to advance. In the All-American semifinals, Mushika and Alsola fell to UCLA’s 15th-ranked Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle 6-3, 6-2.
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