Bears Open NCAA Singles, Doubles

BERKELEY – Four members of the California women’s tennis team – Valentina Ivanov, Mao Mushika, Hannah Viller Moeller and Katja Wiersholm – will close out the season when they compete in the NCAA individual championships next week in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Ivanov, Viller Moeller and Wiersholm start play in the NCAA Singles Championship on Monday while Viller Moeller and Mushika play in the NCAA Doubles Championship starting Tuesday at the Greenwood Tennis Center.
 
The draws for the 64-player singles tournament and the 32-team doubles tournament will be released Sunday.
 
Match Details
 
NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships
 
When: (singles) May 20-25 / (doubles) May 21-25
Where: Greenwood Tennis Center, Stillwater, Okla.
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Wiersholm, Ivanov and Viller Moeller are each hoping to win Cal’s first NCAA singles title since 2011, when Jana Juricova won the program’s second singles championship. Susie Babos won the first in 2006. Mushika and Viller Moeller seek to win Cal’s first doubles championship since 2009, when Juricova and Mari Andersson captured the most recent of Cal’s five doubles titles. Cal head coach Amanda Augustus and Amy Jensen – the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Century – won the Bears’ first two NCAA doubles (and overall championships) in 1998 and 1999), Jensen posted a personal threepeat when she partnered with Claire Curran to claim the title in 2000, and Raquel (Kops-Jones) Atawo and Christina Fusano won it in 2003.
 
This marks the first time each of the Bears will compete in her respective postseason tournament. Ivanov and Wiersholm previously played in the NCAA Doubles Championship, with Ivanov partnering with Haley Giavara in 2021 and Wiersholm teaming with Jessica Alsola in 2023.
 
Mushika, a freshman, and Viller Moeller, now a Cal graduate, have earned a No. 18 ranking and compiled a 25-13 record. The pair had a strong start to the season, winning the top doubles title in the Cal Fall Invitational and capturing the crown in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships. The two Bears reached the round of 16 in the ITA National Fall Championships, with their loss at nationals representing their lone setback in the fall, when they finished 11-1.
 
A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Viller Moeller is ranked 44th in singles with a 23-21 record in her final season at Cal. In the fall, Viller Moeller won the singles title in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and reached the singles…