Master’U BNP Paribas
Cal head coach Amanda Augustus (below left) and Haley Giavara (second from bottom right) celebrate team USA’s championship victory.
HONFLUER, France – With Cal women’s tennis star Haley Giavara winning in doubles and head coach Amanda Augustus anchoring the coaching staff, the United States defeated Great Britain, 4- 2, in the Master’U BNP Paribas Championships final on Sunday. The title was team USA’s ninth in the last 10 tournaments and 10th overall, with Augustus capturing her sixth and Giavara winning in her first year in the co-ed international tournament.
With the final tied 2-2, Giavara partnered with North Carolina’s Fiona Crawley in doubles to give the U.S. a 3-2 lead, as the Golden Bear and Tar Heel beat former Stanford player Emily Arbuthnott and former Old Dominion Monarch Holly Hutchinson, 6-3, 2-6, 17-15, at the Normandie Tennis League’s Centre de Tennis.
The U.S. then clinched the victory with a result in men’s doubles, as USC’s Stefan Dostanic and UNC’s Ryan Seggerman bested Ben Jones and former Baylor player Charlie Broom, 7-6(3), 6-3.
A two-time All-American in singles, Giavara went 3-0 in doubles in France. She paired with Stanford’s Connie Ma to beat Shaline Pipa (Hawaii Pacific) and Nicole Rivkin (Texas), 6-1, 4-6, 10-7, in a 5-2 U.S. win over Germany on Friday. Giavara and Ma teamed up again to defeat Alice Robbe and former Ohio State Buckeye Luna Dormet, 7-6(6), 7-6(2), in Saturday’s semifinal vs. France. Giavara was scheduled to play in mixed doubles vs. the tournament host, but the match was abandoned once the Americans clinched the overall win, 4-2.
Augustus also won titles at the Master’U BNP Paribas Championships from 2012-015 and in 2018.
Cal resumes the college season when the Bears play in the Hawaii Invitational from Jan. 5-7, 2023, in Honolulu.
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