Bears Start Play In Hawaii

Jessica Alsola began the New Year with a singles win in Hawaii.

WTEN1/4/2024 8:42 PM | By: Cal Athletics

HONOLULU – The California women’s tennis team rolled to 11 victories in 15 matches Thursday at the Weinman Foundation Invitational. Seventeenth-ranked Jessica Alsola and the 14th-ranked doubles pair of Hannah Viller Moeller and Mao Mushika were among Golden Bear winners at the UH Tennis Complex.
 
Alsola, a junior, defeated BYU’s Tina Li, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, in singles. Mushika, a freshman playing in Hawaii’s tournament for the first time, and Viller Moeller, a senior, beat Florida State’s 43rd-ranked Vic Allen and Millie Bissett, 6-3.
 
Posting singles wins in their first forays into the Weinman Foundation Invitational as Bears were junior Lan Mi, who beat FSU’s Anna Arkadianou, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, freshman Tiziana-Marie Schomburg, who knocked off FSU’s Chiara Di Genova, 6-3, 7-6(0), and Mushika, who defeated BYU’s Kendall Kovick, 6-3, 6-2.
 
In her first singles match of the collegiate season, senior Valentina Ivanov bested the Seminoles’ Bissett, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.
 
The annual Weinman Foundation Invitational continues Friday.
 
Weinman Foundation Invitational
Jan. 4, 2024, in Honolulu, Hawaii
UH Tennis Complex
 
Cal Results
 
Doubles
No. 14 Hannah Viller Moeller/Mao Mushika (Cal) def. No. 43 Vic Allen/Millie Bissett (FSU), 6-3
Jessica Alsola/Berta Passola Folch (Cal) def. Yujia Huang/Emmie Moore (BYU), 5-2 ret.
Emilee Astle/Jacque Dunyon (BYU) def. Katja Wiersholm/Valentina Ivanov (Cal), 6-4
Cami Brown/Makenna Thiel (Cal) def. Kaitlyn Ralar/Isabella Pampulov (Hawaii), 6-1
Anna Kern/Hannah Galindo (Hawaii) def. Lan Mi/Tiziana-Marie Schomburg (Cal), 6-3
 
Singles
Lan Mi (Cal) def. Anna Arkadianou (FSU), 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
Vic Allen (FSU) def. No. 12 Hannah Viller Moeller (Cal), 6-3, 6-3
Mao Mushika (Cal) def. Kendall Kovick (BYU), 6-3, 6-2
Yujia Huang (BYU) def. No. 36 Katja Wiersholm (Cal), 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
No. 17 Jessica Alsola (Cal) def. Tina Li (BYU), 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
Valentina Ivanov (Cal) def. Millie Bissett (FSU), 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
Tiziana-Marie Schomburg (Cal) def. Chiara Di Genova (FSU), 6-3, 7-6(0)
Cami Brown (Cal) def. Anna Kern (Hawaii), 5-7, 6-1, 6-3
Makenna Thiel (Cal) def. Hannah Galindo (Hawaii), 7-5, 6-3
Berta Passola Folch (Cal) def. Gabriella Broadfoot (N.C. State), 6-3,…