Cal Starts 2024 Dual-Match Season In South Bay

Lucas Magnaudet – who won in singles the last time Cal faced Santa Clara – travels south with the Bears to battle the Broncos on Saturday.

MTEN1/18/2024 6:50 PM | By: Cal Athletics

BERKELEY – The California men’s tennis team begins the 2024 dual-match season with a nonconference clash at Santa Clara on Saturday at noon PT.
 
Cal has a 26-0 record in the all-time series with Santa Clara, who fell to the Golden Bears, 5-2, in the teams’ most recent meeting in 2022 (see below).
 
At Santa Clara (0-0)
When: Saturday, Jan. 20
Where: Degheri Tennis Center, Santa Clara, Calif.
Watch: Livestream
Scores: StatBroadcast
 
Last Time Out
Cal ended the Sherwood Collegiate Cup on a good note, earning eight victories – including seven over UCLA – on Monday at the Sherwood Country Club.
 
Cal senior Lucas Magnaudet defeated Texas A&M’s Kenner Taylor in singles, 7-5, 6-7(4), 10-5, but every other Bear win came at the Bruins’ expense.
 
In doubles, the Cal pair of Alex Chang and John Kim defeated UCLA’s Alexander Hoogmartens and Govind Nada, 7-6(8), while Ryder Jackson and Timofey Stepanov beat the Bruins’ Emon van Loben Sels and Spencer Johnson, 6-1.
 
Chang collected a good win in singles when he beat UCLA’s 121st-ranked Gianluca Balotta, 6-1, 6-0, Jackson claimed his second win of the day in a 6-0, 6-2 result over Giacomo Revelli, and Kim prevailed 6-4, 6-2 over Stefan Leustian. Cal’s Derrick Chen bested Aadarsh Tripathi, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, and Jonathan Irwanto beat van Loben Sels, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
 
Last Time Vs. SCU
The 43rd-ranked California Golden Bears defeated Santa Clara, 5-2, on March 11, 2022, at the Hellman Tennis Complex. Yuta Kikuchi clinched the win with a court-one singles victory.
 
The Bears won first in doubles, with the pair of Sean Hill and Philip Hjorth defeating Guillaume Dalmasso and Santiago Hinojosa, 6-2, on court two. But the Broncos won on court one and then clinched the doubles point when James Bell and Nick Cmager beat Alex Chang and Carl Emil Overbeck, 7-5, on court three.
  
Early in singles Cal’s Derrick Chen tied the overall match, 1-1, when he knocked off Hinojosa, 6-0, 6-2, on court five. Overbeck won by that same score over the Broncos’ Bell on court four, and Cal led 2-1. Lucas Magnaudet followed with a 6-1, 6-1 triumph over…