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Bernardo Munk Mesa won in singles and doubles as Cal finished play in Dallas on Sunday.
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES – The California men’s tennis team finished a dominant run at the Dennis Rizza Intercollegiate Classic on Sunday, as the Golden Bears won 12 out of 13 matches in the three-day tournament at the Jack Kramer Club.
Cal’s Alex Aney, Derrick Chen and Mikey Wright began singles matches against three Arizona Wildcats on Saturday, but rain halted the action. Once play resumed Sunday, Chen defeated Alexander Rozin 6-4, 6-2 and Wright beat Santiago Padilla Cote 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-4, while Aney fell to Oskar Jansson 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-2.
Overall, the Bears went 4-0 in doubles and 8-1 in singles at the Jack Kramer Club.
DALLAS – The Bears completed play at the Ralston/Neufeld Coaches Challenge in impressive fashion Sunday, capturing five of their six matches at SMU’s annual event.
Playing at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex, Cal won both of its doubles matches. Sophomores Jonathan Irwanto and Timofey Stepanov beat Texas-San Antonio’s Danijal Muminovic and Oskar Grzegorzewski 6-4, while freshman Bernardo Munk Mesa and sophomore Ethan Schiffman bested UTSA’s Sergei Haug and Santiago Flyckt 6-4.
The Bears also faced the Roadrunners in singles, with Stepanov defeating Muminovic 6-1, 6-2, Munk Mesa knocking off Flyckt 7-5, 6-3, and Schiffman beating Haug 6-1, 6-1. In Cal’s lone loss on the day, Irwanto fell to Grzegorzewski 6-4, 6-4.
The Ralston/Neufeld Coaches Challenge and Dennis Rizza tournament were the final tuneups for the Bears for the ITA West Sectional Championships, which are scheduled to run Thursday through next Sunday at Pepperdine. Stepanov, 44th-ranked Theo Dean and 123rd-ranked Alex Chang are in the singles field, while the 13th-rannked Chang and Wright as well as the 25th-ranked Dean and Overbeck are in the doubles field in Malibu. Chen could still make the singles tournament as an alternate, and the team of Chen and Stepanov could also earn a spot in the doubles tournament as an alternate.
Six singles players and three doubles teams from the ITA West Sectional Championships will qualify for the NCAA individual championships, which are slated for Nov. 19-24 at Baylor. Overbeck has already qualified…
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