Lucas Magnaudet Advances To Battle In The Bay

Cal junior Lucas Magnaudet won twice Saturday to qualify for next week’s Battle in the Bay.

MTEN9/17/2022 10:23 PM | By: Cal Athletics

BERKELEY – Cal men’s tennis junior Lucas Magnaudet reached the singles final of the Battle in the Bay Qualifier on Saturday and advanced to next week’s Battle in the Bay, as the qualifying tournament came to a close at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The event had been scheduled to conclude on Sunday, but officials ended the tournament early due to rain in Sunday’s forecast.
 
Magnaudet defeated UNLV’s Maxim Verboven, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, in the quarterfinals and beat Stanford’s Neel Rajesh, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, in the semifinals Saturday. James Watt of Saint Mary’s, the other singles finalist, also advanced to the Battle in the Bay.
 
In doubles, the Cal pair of Derrick Chen and John Kim won twice on Saturday to reach the final. Chen, a sophomore, and Kim, a freshman, defeated UNLV’s Aaron Bailey and Dusan Rsovac, 8-1, in the quarterfinal round and then beat the duo of Cal sophomore Mikey Wright and Andrei Volgin of UC Davis, 8-5, in the semifinals. The Bears would have faced Watt and Thibaud Maxant of Saint Mary’s in the final. With Kim and Chen withdrawing, Maxant and Watt moved on to the Sept. 23-25 Battle in the Bay at the California Tennis Club in San Francisco.
 
Also next week, a contingent of Bears will compete in the 10th annual College Invitational at the Silverado Resort and Spa in the Napa Valley.
 
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