Bears Play In KPSF Open

Carl Emil Overbeck is the top seed in the KPSF Open.

MTEN10/9/2023 8:03 PM | By: Cal Athletics

BERKELEY – Several members of the California men’s tennis team will compete in the annual KPSF Open, a professional tournament in San Francisco scheduled to run Wednesday through Sunday at the Goldman Tennis Center in Golden Gate Park.
 
Cal junior Carl Emil Overbeck – who recently played in the ITA All-American Championships – is the top seed in the KPSF Open. Along with Overbeck, the Golden Bears playing in the KPSF Open – which consists of a singles draw – include co-fifth seeds Derrick Chen, Lucas Magnaudet and Tim Stepanov as well as Alex Aney, Alex Chang, Jonathan Irwanto, John Kim and Ethan Schiffman.
 
The draw for the KPSF Open is available here.
 
Duo Advances To ITA Super Regionals
In the Bears’ most recent competition, Cal freshmen Jonathan Irwanto and Tim Stepanov defeated a Pacific pair Sunday on the final day of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in Berkeley to qualify for the upcoming ITA Northwest Super Regional Championships at Stanford.
 
After a big comeback in the second-set tiebreaker, the first-year Golden Bears completed a 5-7, 7-6(8), 10-8 victory over the Tigers’ Terence Das and Tiago Silva at the Hellman Tennis Complex. Stepanov and Irwanto trailed 6-0 in the tiebreaker before rallying to win it, 10-8, and take the second set. They then won a 10-point tiebreaker, also by the score of 10-8, to close out the match.
 
Overbeck Wraps Up ITA All-American
Cal’s Carl Emil Overbeck pushed Columbia’s Max Westphal in a taut, three-set match in the consolation round of 16 at the ITA All-American Championships on Friday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But in the end the Bear fell to the 62nd-ranked Lion, 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2, at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center at the University of Tulsa.
 
This season marked the first time that Overbeck reached the ITA All-American main draw. The product of Copenhagen, Denmark, posted three wins in qualifying singles – including a victory over Princeton’s 73rd-ranked Top Nidunjianzan. Also in qualifying singles, Overbeck was leading Baylor’s 72nd-ranked Oskar Brostrom Poulsen, 7-5, 2-1, when the latter retired with an injury.
 
Earlier in the tournament, several other Bears, including freshmen Jonathan Irwanto and Tim…