No. 28 Cal Edged By Pepperdine 4-3

Lucas Magnaudet won in doubles and singles in Malibu.

MTEN3/25/2023 7:14 PM | By: Cal Athletics

MALIBU – The No. 28 California men’s tennis team lost to 40th-ranked Pepperdine, 4-3, on Saturday evening at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center. The Golden Bears (9-5) led 3-2, but the Waves (8-7) won the last two singles matches to prevail.
 
Cal dropped the doubles point in back-to-back matches for the first time this season, and – as in a 4-3 loss to No. 15 Arizona in their last match – the Bears lost by the narrowest of margins to Pepperdine. The Bears’ 64th-ranked pair of Ryder Jackson and Lucas Magnaudet beat Maxi Homberg and Eero Vasa, 7-5, on court two. But the Waves claimed a win on court one and then clinched the doubles point with a result on court three.
 
Cal won three of the first four singles matches to take a 3-2 lead, as the Bears’ 46th-ranked Yuta Kikuchi defeated the 79th-ranked Tim Zeivogel on court one, Magnaudet triumphed over Linus Halldin, 6-4, 6-3, on court six and Carl Emil Overbeck beat Pietro Fellin, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3, on court four.
 
With Cal needing to win one of the last two matches to take the victory, Pepperdine won three-setters on courts five and three to beat the Bears.
 
Cal plays at No. 32 UC Santa Barbara on Sunday at 1 p.m.