The 21st-ranked California women's tennis team earned the sixth seed in this week's ACC Championship and plays its first dual match of the conference tournament in the third round on Thursday. The Golden Bears face the winner of Wednesday's second-round match between 11th-seeded and 64th-ranked Georgia Tech and 14th-seeded Florida State in their opener.
 
ACC Championship – Third Round
 
Vs. 11th Seed Georgia Tech/14th Seed Florida State
3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET, Thursday, April 16
Cary Tennis Park, Cary, North Carolina
Live Stream PlaySight
Live Scores iOnCourt
 
The semifinal match featuring the highest seed will air on ACCNX on bank 1, with the other semifinal available on PlaySight. Both semifinals are slated to start Saturday at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET. Sunday's final will also air on ACCNX at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET.
 
Last Time: Bears Stumble At Home, Beat Mustangs In Dallas To End Regular Season
No. 23 Cal fell to No. 47 Stanford 4-0 in the Bears' regular-season home finale last Tuesday at the Hellman Tennis Complex before winning 4-2 at No. 30 SMU on Friday. In Dallas, sophomore Sophie Hernandez claimed the second clinching win of her Cal career when she beat the Mustangs' Natalie Stasny 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 to complete the victory and the regular season. Earlier, Hernandez paired with freshman Mille Johanna Moerk to top Stasny and Sophie Llewellyn 7-6(3) and clinch the doubles point.
 
Last Time In The ACC Championship
Cal defeated Louisville 4-1 in its ACC Championship opener in 2025, with Naomi Xu beating Elizabeth Iila 6-2, 7-6(3) to clinch the third-round win over the Cardinals. The Bears ended their conference tournament run in the quarterfinals when they fell to Virginia 4-0.
 
Poll Position
Cal earned the No. 21 ranking in this week's ITA team poll and the No. 27 ranking in the most recent Universal Tennis Ratings (UTR) poll. This week's ITA singles rankings features four Bears: No. 16 Berta Passola Folch (27-8), No. 34 Johanne Svendsen (7-2), No. 93 Mao Mushika (18-9) and No. 113 Naomi Xu (9-11). The duo of Mushika and Svendsen (6-2) is ranked 56th in doubles.
 
Scouting the Bears

• Thursday's match will mark Cal's first neutral-site match of the season, with the Bears also 5-2 on the road and 6-4 at home.
• Freshman Johanne Svendsen played for Denmark in Billie Jean King Cup matches last week against host Portugal, with the Bear falling to Francisca Jorge 1-6, 6-0, 6-2 in her country's 3-0 loss.
• Svendsen also competed for Denmark in the Billie Jean King Cup between 2022 and 2025.
• The Dane has career-best WTA rankings of 361 in singles and 516 in doubles; she is currently ranked 597th in singles and 860th in doubles.
• Svendsen has Cal records of 7-2 in singles and 7-2 in doubles.
• Senior Berta Passola Folch capped an impressive first half of the season when the Cal senior reached the final of the NCAA Singles Championship in the first national individual tournament of her career and earned her first All-America honor along the way.
• The Spaniard qualified for NCAAs by advancing to the semifinals at the ITA West Sectional Championships in Seattle.
• Passola Folch has posted a 27-8 singles record in her final season as a Bear.
• Along with Passola Folch, Cal sent three other Bears to the NCAA Singles Championship in Mao Mushika, Greta Grecco Lucchina and Naomi Xu, while the duo of Mushika and Grecco Lucchina competed in the NCAA Doubles Championship. Mushika is a doubles All-American, who garnered the honor last year when she paired with former Bear Jessica Alsola to earn the No. 4 ranking in the last ITA poll of the 2024-25 season.
• The Bears are led by interim head coach Kris Kwinta, who is also in his fifth season at Cal as the Peter Wright Director of Men's Tennis and is leading the Cal men into their ACC Championship as well.
• Former Cal All-Americans Stephanie Kusano Wallace and Jean Lozano are assistant coaches for the Bears.

 
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