Ahn beats Volynets, 17, in San Jose qualies

Kristie Ahn, a 27-year-old Stanford grad-
uate, slugs a backhand in the semifinals
of the $60,000 Berkeley Tennis Club Chal-
lenge last Saturday. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Fifth-seeded Kristie Ahn, a 27-year-old Stanford graduate from Englewood Cliffs, N.J., beat Katie Volynets, a 17-year-old wild card from Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area, 7-5, 6-0 today in the first round of qualifying for the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic at San Jose State.
   Ahn, a semifinalist in last week's $60,000 Berkeley Tennis Club Challenge, will face former Pacific-12 Conference rival Danielle Lao, a 28-year-old resident of Arcadia in the Los Angeles area, on Sunday at about 2 p.m. for a berth in the main draw.
   Lao, a 5-foot-2 1/2 (1.59-meter), 115-pound (52.2-kilogram) former USC All-American, topped Mai Hontama of Japan 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
   Mayo Hibi, who plays for her native Japan but has lived in California since she was 2, drubbed Jovana Jaksic, a Serb living in Sacramento, 6-1, 6-0 in 69 minutes.
   Hibi, the Berkeley runner-up, will face second-seeded Xiyu Wang of China. Wang dominated Ashley Kratzer, the runner-up in the 2017 Stockton (Calif.) Challenger, 6-3, 6-1.
   Phenom beats ex-Cal standout – Top-seeded Cori Gauff, a 15-year-old sensation from Delray Beach, Fla., returned to action with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Maegan Manasse, a former Cal All-American from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles region, in the first round of qualifying for the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.
   Gauff competed for the first time since becoming the youngest player to reach the round of 16 at Wimbledon since Jennifer Capriati in 1991.
   Bryan brothers reach final – Top-seeded Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan outclassed fourth-seeded Radu Albot of Moldova and Artem Sitak, a Russia native who plays for New Zealand, 7-5, 6-3 in the semifinals of the BB&T Atlanta Open.
   The 41-year-old Bryan twins (Stanford, 1997-98), two-time Atlanta champions, will play second-seeded Dominic Inglot of Great Britain and Austin Krajicek of Bryan, Texas, on Sunday.
   Krajicek reached the singles final in the 2015 Aptos (Calif.) Challenger, losing to John Millman of Australia.
   Cal player falls in pro doubles final – Unseeded Sanaz Marand and Caitlin Whoriskey of the United States defeated wild cards Vladica Babic, a former Oklahoma State All-American from Montenegro, and Julia Rosenqvist, a Cal junior from Sweden, 7-6 (4), 6-4 to win the Braidy Industries $60,000 Women's Tennis Classic in Ashland, Ky.

Top seed Brengle plays through pain amid lawsuit

Top-seeded Madison Brengle of Dover, Del., beat Ulrikke Eikeri of Norway
6-4, 7-5 today in the first round of the $60,000 Stockton Pro Open.
Photo by Paul Bauman

   STOCKTON, Calif. — Aside from her abbreviated service motion, Madison Brengle looks fine.
   Seeded first at No. 95 in the world, the 28-year-old American scurried around the court as usual in her 6-4, 7-5 win over Ulrikke Eikeri of Norway today in the first round of the $60,000 Stockton Pro Open at the University of the Pacific's Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center.
   "She's very smart; she's got a good head," said the 25-year-old Eikeri, ranked No. 254. "She reads the game well and gets everything back. She's a great fighter."
   But Brengle is not fine. Far from it. The right-hander said the last of three anti-doping blood tests in 2016 at the U.S. Open has caused lingering severe pain in her right forearm and hand.
   "This is the test my body never recovered from," Brengle told The New York Times in April, the week before she sued the Women's Tennis Association and International Tennis Federation for battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. "This is the one that changed my career, changed my life, more than you can know."
   Stuart Miller, the ITF's anti-doping chief, said in The Times that urine samples are inadequate. The WTA and ITF did not respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.

   Months after the blood test at the U.S. Open, Brengle was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Intense reactions to needles have been an issue in her family for generations, she told the Times. Brengle, who has earned $2.4 million in prize money, seeks damages of more than $10 million.
   "After here, I'm flying back to see my neurologist because I'm playing in an amount of pain I shouldn't have to deal with," Brengle, from Dover, Del., said today. "This nerve disease is incurable, so I'll be doing physical therapy for the rest of my life. I'm in a lot of pain.
   "The majority of it is in my hand. It just burns and burns. It's like putting your hand in an oven for the rest of your life. But I enjoy playing tennis. I don't want to stop."

Qualifier Maegan Manasse, who had right elbow surgery
after her senior year at Cal, defeated Rebecca Marino of
Canada 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-0. Photo by Paul Bauman

   The pain has forced Brengle to alter her serve. Ranked a career-high No. 35 in 2015, she has not returned to the top 50 since the 2016 U.S. Open. But last year, she stunned Serena Williams in Auckland and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova at the famed tournament. Both were second-round matches.
   In the last three months, Brengle has reached the second round at Wimbledon, won a $60,000 tournament in Landisville, Pa., lost to 19-year-old American Sofia Kenin 7-6 in the third set in the first round of the U.S. Open as a lucky loser, and reached the semifinals of last week's $60,000 tourney in Templeton in Southern California. In the latter tournament, she fell to eventual champion Asia Muhammad 6-4, 6-4.

   "I work really hard with my physical therapist," Brengle said of her success since her diagnosis. "There's a lot that I'm doing, down to my diet. I try not to eat inflammatory food because it's so much burning.
   "Sugar is an inflammatory. I eat a lot of salad, a lot of seafood, a lot of veggies. I've kind of given up desserts, which is probably not the worst thing for me. If it can give me .1 percent improvement, I'm going to try and do it. There's only so much I can control about this, so I will try and do everything that's still in my control.
   "You have good days and bad days. The bad days are really tough, and the good days make it kind of worth it."
   Brengle, the runner-up in the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger in 2013, cited footwork as her greatest strength.
   "I love my (two-handed) backhand," she said, "but if I move well, that keeps me in matches because I'm not able to generate that much (power) with my right arm."
   And if Brengle is told to take another blood test?
   "That's not in the cards," she asserted. "That's not going to happen."

Rebecca Marino battled depression during a five-year
hiatus. She returned in January. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Jessica Pegula, Maegan Manasse and Rebecca Marino have had their own issues.
   Pegula, the runner-up in the inaugural $50,000 Sacramento Challenger in 2012 and daughter of Buffalo Bills and Sabres owners Terrence and Kim Pegula, played in just one tournament in 2014 after having knee surgery and did not compete from January to August last year because of injury. She reached her first WTA final in Quebec City last month as a qualifier and, seeded second in Stockton, beat Nadia Podoroska of Argentina 6-0, retired.
   Manasse, a right-hander from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, underwent right elbow surgery in August 2017 after her senior year at Cal. As a qualifier, she advanced to the final of a $60,000 tournament in Ashland, Ky., in July and defeated the 6-foot (1.83-meter) Marino 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-0 today in 2 hours, 21 minutes in 80-degree (26.7 Celsius) heat.

   Marino, after attaining a career high of No. 38 in 2011, became depressed by cruel tweets from people who had lost money betting on her matches.
   "They'll say, 'You gave that match away; you cost me such-and-such amount of money; you should go burn in hell,' or 'You should go die,' " Marino told The New York Times in 2013. "And oh, my gosh, that is really scary."
   After a five-year hiatus, the sensitive Marino returned to pro tennis in January. Since then, she has won two $25,000 tournaments, including Lubbock (Texas) two weeks ago, and reached the final of another.
   Also today, Robin Anderson edged fifth-seeded Kristie Ahn 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (4) just before an afternoon downpour halted play for the day. The match had been suspended by darkness at 4-4 in the third set on Tuesday. Overall, it lasted 3 hours, 5 minutes.
   Anderson, 25, and Ahn, 26, embraced afterward. They grew up a one-hour drive from each other in New Jersey before starring at UCLA and Stanford, respectively. Both have reached finals recently, the 5-foot-3 (1.61-meter) Anderson in Lubbock and the 5-foot-5 (1.68-meter) Ahn in Landisville in August.

Robin Anderson, left, and Maegan Manasse run for cover after
a canopy on an elevated concourse blew onto a court during a
downpour. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Whitney Osuigwe of Bradenton, Fla., defeated qualifier Katie Volynets of Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area 7-5, 6-1 in a matchup of 16-year-olds.
   Osuigwe (pronouned Oh-sig-way) last year became the first American to win the French Open girls singles title since Jennifer Capriati in 1989.
   In the Stockton men's $100,000 tournament, fourth-seeded Lloyd Harris of South Africa moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Thai-Son Kwiatkowski of Charlotte, N.C.
   Harris advanced to the final of the $100,000 Aptos (Calif.) Challenger in August. Kwiatkowski led Virginia to its third consecutive NCAA championship and won NCAA singles title last year as a senior.
   Christopher Eubanks, 6-foot-7 (2.01 meters) from Atlanta, leads fifth-seeded Casper Ruud, a 19-year-old Norwegian, 6-1, 2-2. Eubanks gained the semifinals in Aptos and quarterfinals in last week's $100,000 Tiburon (Calif.) Challenger.
   Daily ticket prices for the Stockton Pro Open are:
   Through Thursday — $15 courtside/VIP, $10 general admission, $5 children 5-12.
   Friday through Sunday — $25 courtside/VIP, $20 general admission, $10 children 5-12.
   Tournament passes cost $70 for courtside/VIP, $50 for general admission and $25 for children 5-12.
   Here are the Stockton men's singles and doubles draws and Thursday's schedule, plus the women's singles and doubles draws and Thursday's schedule. The men's tournament is being streamed live.

Three NorCal players claim pro doubles titles

Connie Ma, 15, of Dublin in the San Francisco Bay Area, won
the doubles title and reached the singles final in a $15,000
tournament in Evansville, Ind. Photo by Paul Bauman

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   Three players with Northern California ties, including 15-year-old Connie Ma, won doubles titles in professional tournaments this weekend.
   And two, including Ma, reached singles finals.
   Third-seeded Jovana Jaksic, a Serbian based in Sacramento, and Renata Zarazua of Mexico topped unseeded Sanaz Marand and Whitney Osuigwe, 16, of the United States 6-3, 5-7 [10-4] in the final of the Braidy Industries $60,000 Women's Tennis Classic in Ashland, Ky.
   Jaksic, 24, also reached the singles semifinals before losing to eventual champion Gail Brodsky.
   Unseeded Markus Eriksson and Andre Goransson (Cal, 2014-17) of Sweden edged Ivan Gakhov and Alexander Pavlioutchenkov of Russia 6-3, 3-6 [10-7] to capture the 43,000 Euro ($50,129) Aamulehti Tampere (Finland) Open.
   Ma -- a 5-foot-3 (1.60-meters), 95-pound (43.1-kilogram) amateur from Dublin in the San Francisco Bay Area -- and Gianna Pielet, 16, beat Meghan Kelley and Bianca Moldovan 6-3, 7-5 in an all-American final in the $15,000 Women's Hospital Classic in Evansville, Ind. Both teams were unseeded. Kelley and Moldovan will be seniors at Virginia and North Carolina State, respectively.
   The Ashland singles final featured a rare matchup of qualifiers as Brodsky, 27, defeated fellow American Maegan Manasse (Cal, 2014-17) 4-6, 6-1, 6-0.
   In the Evansville final, third-seeded Elysia Bolton of Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., beat the sixth-seeded Ma 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Bolton will enroll at UCLA in the fall.

Stanford's Fawcett falls in NCAA semifinals

   No. 9-16 seed Thai-Son Kwiatkowski of three-time reigning champion Virginia defeated No. 8 Tom Fawcett of Stanford 6-3, 6-2 today in the men's singles semifinals of the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga.
   Fawcett, a 6-foot-5 (1.96-meter) junior from Winnetka, Ill., won his first four matches in straight sets.
   Kwiatkowski, a senior from Charlotte, N.C., is scheduled to play No. 9-16 William Blumberg of North Carolina on Monday at 8 a.m. Blumberg, a freshman from Greenwich, Conn., surprised No. 2 Nuno Borges of Mississippi State 6-2, 7-6 (1).
   Meanwhile, Maya Jansen and Maegan Manasse of Cal ended their collegiate careers with a 6-2, 6-3 loss to Francesca Di Lorenzo and Miho Kowase of Ohio State in a matchup of unseeded teams in the women's doubles semifinals.
   Manasse, a senior from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, served underhand, and Di Lorenzo and Kowase stood far inside the baseline to return Manasse's first and second serve. The reason for Manasse's unconventional serve was not immediately available.
   Di Lorenzo and Kowase will face No. 5-8 seeds Maddie Pothoff and Erin Routliffe of Alabama on Monday. Pothoff and Routliffe dominated unseeded Ryann Foster and Joana Valle Costa of LSU 6-1, 6-1.
   Jansen, a graduate student, won the NCAA doubles crown with Routliffe for Alabama in 2014 and 2015. Manasse advanced to last year's final with Denise Starr.
   In other finals on Monday:
   --No. 6 seed Belinda Woolcock of NCAA champion Florida will  meet unseeded Brienne Minor of Michigan.
   --No. 1 seeds Robert Loeb and Jan Zielinski of host Georgia will play unseeded Andrew Harris and Spencer Papa of Oklahoma. Harris, a senior, won the 2012 Wimbledon and French Open boys doubles titles with fellow Australian Nick Kyrgios, now ranked No. 19 in the world in singles.
   Video streaming and live scoring of the NCAA Championships are available here.

Cal's Lakat loses heartbreaker in National Indoors

Cal's Florian Lakat, serving in doubles in last
year's Tiburon Challenger, lost in the second
round of singles in the National Indoors on
Friday. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Cal's three remaining singles players lost to seeds on Friday in the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.
   But Florian Lakat put up a tremendous fight on the men's side.
   Lakat, a senior from France, lost to fourth-seeded Nuno Borges of Mississippi State 6-7 (8), 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the second round at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
   Borges, a sophomore from Portugal, then managed to beat Skander Mansouri of Wake Forest 7-5, 6-1 to reach the semifinals.
   In the second round of women's singles, top seed and defending champion Francesca Di Lorenzo of Ohio State beat Cal's Karla Popovic, a junior from Croatia, 6-0, 6-4.
   Also, fourth-seeded Hayley Carter of North Carolina dismissed Cal's Maegan Manasse, a senior from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, 6-2, 6-2.
   Di Lorenzo and Carter, the runner-up to Danielle Collins of Virginia in the NCAA Championships in May in Tulsa, Okla., then advanced to the semis.
   Manasse, the 2014 runner-up to Julia Elbaba of Virginia in the National Indoors, has missed most of the fall season with a nagging elbow injury.
   Columbia's Richard Pham and Victor Pham, brothers from Saratoga in the San Francisco Bay Area, reached the men's doubles semifinals with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Morgan Mays and Simon Freund of UC Santa Barbara.
   Richard Pham, a senior, and Victor Pham, a sophomore, will face Valparaiso's Jeffrey Schorsch and Charlie Emhardt, who upset top-seeded Lakat and Filip Bergevi in the second round.

Cal star Manasse upsets seed in Gold River qualifying

Cal star Maegan Manasse beat No. 4 seed Jacqueline Cako today
in the second round of qualifying for the $50,000 FSP Gold River
Women's Challenger. Photo by Paul Bauman

   GOLD RIVER, Calif. -- Cal star Maegan Manasse upset No. 4 seed Jacqueline Cako 6-3, 6-4 today in an all-American matchup in the second round of qualifying for the $50,000 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger.
   Manasse, from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, reached the singles round of 16 and the doubles final with Denise Starr in the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla., in May as a junior.
   Manasse will play Lizette Cabrera of Australia on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Gold River Racquet Club in the Sacramento region for a berth in the main draw.
Cabrera ousted No. 7 seed Caroline Dolehide, 17, of Hinsdale, Ill., 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-2.
   Also advancing were No. 1 seed Valeria Solovyeva of Russia and unseeded American Alexandra Stevenson, the 35-year-old daughter of basketball legend Julius Erving.
   Solovyeva, who will play No. 8 Tori Kinard of the United States, advanced to the semifinals of the inaugural Gold River Challenger in 2012 at 19 years old. She took 2015 off to earn a master's degree in sports and health science, graduating with honors.
   In 1999, the 6-foot-1 (1.85-meter) Stevenson became the first female qualifier to reach the Wimbledon semifinals. She climbed to a career-high No. 18 in 2002 before shoulder problems derailed her career.
   Stevenson will face 17-year-old Alexandra Sanford of Westerville, Ohio. Sanford, who plans to attend North Carolina in the fall, gained the quarterfinals of the $100,000 Dow Corning Tennis Classic in Midland, Mich., as a qualifier in February.

$50,000 FSP GOLD RIVER WOMEN'S CHALLENGER

In Gold River, Calif.

At Gold River Racquet Club

Singles

Second-round qualifying

   Chanel Simmonds (3), South Africa, def. Michaela Gordon, Saratoga, Calif., 6-1, 6-3.
   Maegan Manasse, United States, def. Jacqueline Cako (4), 6-3, 6-4.
   Alexandra Sanford, United States, def. Nicole Frenkel (6), United States, 6-3, 7-5.
   Caroline Romeo (5), France, def. Caitlin Whoriskey, United States, 6-7 97), 7-5, 6-3.
   Valeria Solovyeva (1), Russia, def. Ashley Kratzer, United States, 6-2, 6-2.
   Tori Kinard (8), United States, def. Camille Favero, Sacramento, Calif., 6-1, 6-3.
   Alexandra Stevenson, United States, def. Yuki Kristina Chiang, United States, 5-7, 6-1, 6-0.
   Lizette Cabrera, Australia, def. Caroline Dolehide (7), United States, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-2.

Tuesday's schedule

Starting at 10 a.m.

Stadium

   Maegan Manasse, United States, vs. Lizette Cabrera, Australia (final-round qualifying).
   Jamie Loeb, United States, vs. Mayo Hibi (7), Japan (not before 11:30 a.m.).
   Claire Liu, United States, vs. Grace Min (2), United States (not before 1 p.m.).
   Jamie Loeb, United States, and Chanel Simmonds (3), South Africa, vs. Caroline Dolehide and Sofia Kenin, United States (not before 2:30 p.m.).

Court 3

   Chanel Simmonds (3), South Africa, vs. Caroline Romeo (5), France (final-round qualifying).
   Eri Hozumi, Japan, vs. Robin Anderson, United States (not before 11:30 a.m.).
   An-Sophie Mestach, Belgium, and Tara Moore (1), Great Britain, vs. Alexandra Facey and Kat Facey, Cameron Park, Calif. (not before 1 p.m.).
   Greet Minnen and Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, vs. Ashley Weinhold and Caitlin Whoriskey (2), United States (not before 2:30 p.m.).

Court 4

   Alexandra Stevenson, United States, vs. Alexandra Sanford, United States (final-round qualifying).
   Sabina Sharipova (8), Uzbekistan, vs. Storm Sanders, Australia (not before 11:30 a.m.).
   Ashley Mackey, United States, and Karina Kristina Vyrlan, Sacramento, Calif., vs. Jacqueline Cako, United States, and Jovana Jaksic, Serbia (not before 1 p.m.).
   Yuki Kristina Chiang, United States, and Elizaveta Ianchuk, Ukraine, vs. Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria, United States (not before 2:30 p.m.).

Court 5

   Valeria Solovyeva (1), Russia, vs. Tori Kinard, United States (final-round qualifying).
   Renata Zarazua, Mexico, vs. Kristie Ahn, United States (not before 11:30 a.m.).

Cal star Manasse falls in 50K Stockton qualifying

Cal's Maegan Manasse lost to No. 6 seed
Jennifer Elie 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday.
2015 photo by Paul Bauman

   No. 6 seed Jennifer Elie of the United States defeated Cal star Maegan Manasse 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday in the first round of qualifying for the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Stockton, Calif.
   The tournament is being held at the new Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center at the University of the Pacific.
   Manasse, from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, reached the singles round of 16 and the doubles final with Denise Starr in the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla., in May as a junior.
   Elie, a 29-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., native, advanced to the quarterfinals of the $25,000 Palmetto Pro Open in Sumter, S.C., last month.
   Three seeds -- No. 5 Renata Zarazua of Mexico, No. 7 Greet Minnen of Belgium and No. 8 Shiho Akita of Japan -- lost to Americans.
   Also, Chanel Simmonds of South Africa defeated 6-foot-1 (1.85-meter) Alexandra Stevenson, the 35-year-old daughter of basketball legend Julius Erving, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Stevenson became the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach the semifinals (1999) before shoulder problems derailed her career.
   In an all-University of Florida encounter, reigning NCAA singles champion Brooke Austin beat wild card Brianna Morgan 7-5, 6-2. Austin reached the semifinals of the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger last July.
   In a matchup of San Francisco Bay Area residents, Giuliana Olmos, 23, of Fremont routed Sara Choy, 16, of Palo Alto 6-2, 6-1. Olmos completed an All-America career at USC in May.
   Jacqueline Cako, a 24-year-old native of Brier, Wash., who starred at Arizona State, dominated Karina Kristina Vyrlan, 17, of Sacramento 6-2, 6-0.

$50,000 USTA PRO CIRCUIT CHALLENGER

In Stockton, Calif.

First-round qualifying

   Danielle Lao (1), United States, def. Anhzelika Isaeva, Russia, 6-1, 6-2.
   Giuliana Olmos, Fremont, def. Sara Choy, Palo Alto, 6-2, 6-1.
   Brynn Boren, United States. def. Amy Zhu, United States, 6-3, 6-0.
   Desirae Krawczyk, United States, def. Greet Minnen (7), Belgium, 6-3, 6-4.
   Chanel Simmonds, South Africa, def. Alexandra Stevenson, United States, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
   Elizaveta Ianchuk (3), Ukraine, def. Nazari Urbina, Mexico, 6-1, 6-2.
   Nicole Frenkel, United States, def. Renata Zarazua (5), Mexico, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2.
   Brooke Austin, United States, def. Brianna Morgan, United States, 7-5, 6-2.
   Gabriela Ce (2), Brazil, def. Ena Shibahara, United States, 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
   Ashley Weinhold, United States, def. Shiho Akita (8), Japan, 6-2, 6-4.
   Caitlin Whoriskey, United States, def. Olivia Tjandramulia, Australia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5).
   Jacqueline Cako, United States, def. Karina Kristina Vyrlan, Sacramento, 6-2, 6-0.
   Jennifer Elie (6), United States, def. Maegan Manasse, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
   Priscilla Hon (4), Australia, def. Yuki Kristina Chiang, United States, 6-1, 7-6 (4).
   Sabrina Santamaria, United States, def. Tori Kinard, United States, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
   Yuliya Beygelzimer, Ukraine, def. Nikki Luttikhuis, Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1.  

Today's schedule

Starting at 10 a.m.

Court 1

   Elizaveta Ianchuk (3), Ukraine, vs. Brooke Austin, United States.
   Caitlin Whoriskey, United States, vs. Ashley Weinold, United States (not before 11:30 a.m.).

Court 2

   Chanel Simmonds, South Africa, vs. Nicole Frenkel, United States.
   Jennifer Elie (6), United States, vs. Sabrina Santamaria, United States (not before 11:30 a.m.)

Court 3

   Giuliana Olmos, Fremont, vs. Desirae Krawczyk, United States.
   Priscilla Hon (4), Australia, vs. Yuliya Beygelzimer, Ukraine (not before 11:30 a.m.)

Court 4

   Danielle Lao (1), United States, vs. Brynn Boren, United States.
   Gabriela Ce (2), Brazil, vs. Jacqueline Cako, United States (not before 11:30 a.m.)

Cal star to face sixth seed in 50K Stockton qualies

   Cal All-American Maegan Manasse will take on sixth-seeded Jennifer Elie of the United States today in the first round of qualifying for the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Stockton, Calif.
   The match is scheduled to begin not before 2:30 p.m. at the new Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center at the University of the Pacific.
   Manasse, from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, reached the singles round of 16 and the doubles final with Denise Starr in the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla., in May as a junior.
   Elie, a 29-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. native, advanced to the quarterfinals of the $25,000 Palmetto Pro Open in Sumter, S.C., last month.
   In a matchup of San Francisco Bay Area residents, Giuliana Olmos, 23, of Fremont will face Sara Choy, 16, of Palo Alto at 10 a.m. Olmos just completed an All-America career at USC.
   Karina Kristina Vyrlan, 17, of Sacramento will play Jacqueline Cako, a 24-year-old Brier, Wash., native who starred at Arizona State, not before 1 p.m.

Bay Area's McDonald sweeps NCAA men's titles

UCLA's Mackenzie McDonald, from Piedmont in the San Fran-
cisco Bay Area, became the first man in 15 years to sweep the
NCAA singles and doubles titles. 2015 photo by Paul Bauman

   Not only did Mackenzie McDonald lose in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships last year, he was humiliated.
   The San Francisco Bay Area resident also lost in the opening round of doubles in 2015.
   One year later, McDonald became the first man in 15 years to sweep the NCAA titles.
   The UCLA junior from Piedmont, seeded sixth, outclassed top-seeded Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State 6-3, 6-3 on Monday in Tulsa, Okla. McDonald and Martin Redlicki, the second seeds in doubles, then beat unseeded Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow of Texas A&M 6-4, 6-1.
   "I'm really happy with this accomplishment," said McDonald, who earned singles and doubles wild cards in this year's U.S. Open with the titles. "It's unbelievable. I always wanted to win something for UCLA, and to bring back two trophies for them this year is really cool to me."
   McDonald, seeded third in NCAA singles last year, lost to Lloyd Glasspool of Texas 6-0, 6-2 in the opening round. Also, McDonald and Redlicki fell to Boris Arias and Jordan Daigle of LSU 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4 in a first-round matchup of unseeded teams.
   McDonald rebounded to become the first man to sweep the singles and doubles crowns since Mathias Boeker of Georgia in 2001. The last woman to accomplish the feat was Nicole Gibbs of Stanford in 2012. Gibbs is now ranked No. 72 in the world in singles.
   Meanwhile, No. 2 seed Danielle Collins of Virginia beat No. 1 Hayley Carter of North Carolina 6-3, 6-2 for her second NCAA singles title. Collins also won two years ago as a sophomore.
   No. 3 seeds Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan of Florida won the women's doubles title, crushing No. 4 Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr of Cal 6-2, 6-0.
   Austin reached the singles semifinals in the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger last July.
   A Cal team lost in the women's doubles final for the second consecutive year. Klara Fabikova and Zsofi Susanyi fell to Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe of Alabama in 2015.
   McDonald, only 5-foot-10 (1.78 meters) and 145 pounds (66 kilograms), could forgo his senior season and turn pro. He already is ranked No. 420 in the world under longtime private coach Wayne Ferreira, who reached a career-high No. 6 in 1995.
   Three years ago, before McDonald had enrolled at UCLA, he became the only unranked teenager to qualify for an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament, the highest level for men besides the Grand Slams. McDonald stunned then-No. 79 Nicolas Mahut of France and then-No. 128 Steve Johnson of Orange in the Los Angeles area to reach the main draw in Cincinnati.
  Johnson is now ranked No. 34, and Mahut is No. 44.
  On the U.S. Challenger circuit last fall, McDonald reached the semifinals in Tiburon in the Bay Area, quarterfinals in Sacramento and, as a qualifier, semis in Champaign, Ill.

McDonald reaches NCAA singles, doubles finals

No. 6 seed Mackenzie McDonald will meet No. 1 Mikael
Torpegaard of Ohio State today in the NCAA singles final.
2015 photo by Paul Bauman 

   Mackenzie McDonald will have extra incentive in today's NCAA men's singles and doubles finals.
   NCAA champions from the United States receive a wild card in the U.S. Open, which this year begins Aug. 29.
   The sixth-seeded McDonald, a UCLA junior from Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area, will meet top-seeded Mikael Torpegaard, an Ohio State sophomore from Denmark, today at 10 a.m. PDT in Tulsa, Okla.
   Then McDonald and Martin Redlicki, a resident of Boca Raton, Fla., will face unseeded Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow of Texas A&M at 2 p.m. Rinderknech hails from France, and Withrow is from Omaha, Neb.
   In the women's doubles semifinals on Sunday, fourth-seeded Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr of Cal edged top-seeded Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay of North Carolina 6-4, 4-6 [10-7]. Manasse and Starr will play third-seeded Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan of Florida for the title today at noon.
   Today's matches will be streamed live at tulsahurricane.com.
   McDonald, only 5-foot-10 (1.78 meters) and 145 pounds (66 kilograms), downed No. 9-16 seed Joao Monteiro of Virginia Tech 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. It was the fourth straight three-set match for Monteiro, a senior from Portugal, and the first of the tournament for McDonald.
   The match was moved indoors after the first set because of lightning in the area, and McDonald trailed 2-0 in the third set.
   "That guy was playing really good tennis indoors," said McDonald, ranked No. 420 in the world and coached privately by former No. 6 Wayne Ferreira. "The momentum definitely shifted once we went indoors after that first set. ...
   "That second set, he got a break on me, and he was playing really well. The third set was just a lot of heart, and I was just trying to fight for every point. That’s was got me through there at the end.”
   Torpegaard, 6-foot-4 (1.93 meters), outclassed fifth-seeded Cameron Norrie of Texas Christian 6-3, 6-4.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
In Tulsa, Okla.

Men's singles

Semifinals

   Mikael Torpegaard (1), Ohio State, def. Cameron Norrie (5), Texas Christian, 6-3, 6-4.
   Mackenzie McDonald (6), UCLA, def. Joao Monteiro (9-16), Virginia Tech, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

Men's doubles

Semifinals

   Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow, Texas A&M, def. David Biosca and Rogerio Ribeiro, East Tennessee State, 6-2, 5-7 [10-7].
   Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki (2), UCLA, def. Alex Lawson and Quentin Monaghan, Notre Dame, 7-5, 6-7 (5) [10-8].

Women's singles

Semifinals

   Hayley Carter (1), North Carolina, def. Sinead Lohan (8), Miami, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2.
   Danielle Collins (2), Virginia, def. Luisa Stefani (7), Pepperdine, 7-6 (7), 6-4.

Women's doubles

Semifinals

   Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr (4), Cal, def. Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay (1), North Carolina, 6-4, 4-6 [10-7].
   Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan (3), Florida, def. Catherine Harrison and Kyle McPhillips (5-8), UCLA, 4-6, 6-3 [10-5].

McDonald reaches NCAA singles, doubles semifinals

No. 6 seed Mackenzie McDonald of UCLA and
the San Francisco Bay Area dismissed No. 2 Ro-
berto Cid of South Florida 6-3, 6-2 in the NCAA
quarterfinals. 2015 photo by Paul Bauman

   While Mackenzie McDonald breezes through the NCAA men's singles draw, Joao Monteiro barely survives.
   No. 6 seed McDonald of UCLA via Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area and No. 9-16 Monteiro of Virginia Tech will meet in the semifinals on Sunday at noon PDT in Tulsa, Okla. The match will be streamed live at tulsahurricane.com.
   No. 1 Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State will face No. 5 Cameron Norrie of Texas Christian in the other semifinal, also at noon.
   McDonald, 5-foot-10 (1.78 meters), is the only American men's semifinalist. Monteiro is a 5-foot-10 senior from Portugal, Torpegaard a 6-foot-4 (1.93-meter) sophomore from Denmark and Norrie a 6-foot (1.82-meter) sophomore from New Zealand.
   McDonald, ranked No. 420 in the world and privately coached by former top-10 player Wayne Ferreira, outclassed No. 2 seed Roberto Cid of South Florida 6-3, 6-2 today.
   "I thought I played a pretty good match," said McDonald, who has lost only 15 games in his four straight-set victories. "I had a little bit of a slow start -- he got up 3-1 -- but then I cruised from there. I won nine straight games, so I definitely got my game together. I’m happy with the results.”
   Monteiro edged No. 4 seed Aleks Vukic of Illinois 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3) for his third straight three-set victory. Monteiro ousted the defending champion, No. 8 seed Ryan Shane of two-time reigning NCAA champion Virginia, in the round of 16.
   McDonald also reached the doubles semifinals with Martin Redlicki. The second seeds will meet unseeded Alex Lawson and Quentin Monaghan of Notre Dame. They ousted No. 5-8 seeds Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat of Cal, 6-3, 7-5.
   In the women's doubles quarterfinals, No. 4 seeds Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr beat unseeded sisters Mayar Sherif Ahmed and Rana Sherif Ahmed of Fresno State 6-1, 7-5.
   Manasse and Starr will play No. 1 seeds Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay, a North Carolina pair who routed unseeded Bay Area residents Hadley Berg and Paige Cline of South Carolina 6-1, 6-2.
   Berg is from Greenbrae and Cline from Kentfield. Both suburbs are situated in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

In Tulsa, Okla.

Men's singles

Quarterfinals

   Mikael Torpegaard (1), Ohio State, def. Petros Chrysochos, Wake Forest, 6-3, 6-0.
   Cameron Norrie (5), Texas Christian, def. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (9-16), Virginia, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1.
   Joao Monteiro (9-16), Virginia Tech, def. Aleks Vukic (4), Illinois, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3).
   Mackenzie McDonald (6), UCLA, def. Roberto Cid (2), South Florida, 6-3, 6-2.

Men's doubles

Quarterfinals

   David Biosca and Rogerio Ribeiro, East Tennessee State, def. Jack Murray and Brayden Schnur, North Carolina, 6-2, 7-6 (7).

   Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow, Texas A&M, Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim, Wake Forest, 3-6, 6-3 [10-6].

   Alex Lawson and Quentin Monaghan, Notre Dame, def. Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat (5-8), Cal, 6-3, 7-5.

   Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki (2), UCLA, def. Julian Cash and Arjun Kadhe, Oklahoma State, 7-6 (4), 7-5.

Women's singles

Quarterfinals

   Hayley Carter (1), North Carolina, def. Katarina Adamovic, Oklahoma State, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1.
   Sinead Lohan (8), Miami, def. Breaunna Addison (9-16), Texas, 6-2, 6-4.
   Luisa Stefani (7), Pepperdine, def. Kennedy Shaffer, Georgia, 6-1, 6-4.
   Danielle Collins (2), Virginia, def. Jasmine Lee (9-16), Mississippi State, 7-5, 6-3.

Women's doubles

Quarterfinals

   Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay (1), North Carolina, def. Hadley Berg and Paige Cline, South Carolina, 6-1, 6-2.
   Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr (4), Cal, def. Mayar Sherif Ahmed and Rana Sherif Ahmed, Fresno State, 6-1, 7-5.
   Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan (3), Florida, def. Alexandra Osborne and Ebony Panoho, Arizona State, 6-4, 6-1.
   Catherine Harrison and Kyle McPhillips (5-8), UCLA, def. Mami Adachi and Aldila Sutjiadi (2), Kentucky, 6-0, 6-2.

McDonald gains NCAA quarters; Manasse upset

Mackenzie McDonald, playing in the Sacramento
Challenger last October, is ranked No. 420 in the
world. Photo by Paul Bauman

   The similarities between Mackenzie McDonald and Maegan Manasse are almost eerie.
   Both are college juniors with strong Northern California ties.
   Both are seeded sixth in the NCAA Singles Championships.
   Both played No. 9-16 seeds in the round of 16 on Friday.
   Both reached the NCAA doubles quarterfinals.
   And both have first and last names that start with "M."
   But McDonald and Manasse met different fates in singles in Tulsa, Okla.
   McDonald, from UCLA via Piedmont, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area, routed Skander Mansouri of Wake Forest 6-1, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals for the second time.
   “I came out knowing what I needed to do today and took care of business," said McDonald, who's ranked No. 420 in the world and privately coached by former top-10 player Wayne Ferreira. "I just took it to the guy. I played really well. I moved my feet really well today, took away time, and there wasn't much he could do."

   Manasse, from Cal and Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, lost to Jasmine Lee of Mississippi State 6-4, 7-6 (0).

   “I played her last year at regionals, and we didn’t get to finish," Lee said. "This year she is ranked higher than me (No. 13 to No. 7), so I didn’t have any pressure. I just did what I can do.”

Cal's Maegan Manasse practices in the Sacramento
Challenger last July. Photo by Paul Bauman

   McDonald, only 5-foot-10 (1.78 meters) and 145 pounds (66 kilograms), has surrendered just 10 games in three straight-set victories. He is scheduled to face second-seeded Roberto Cid of South Florida today at 11 a.m. PDT (live streaming at tulsahurricane.com).
   McDonald, who's seeded second in doubles with Martin Redlicki, said reaching the quarterfinals in both events "feels good, but it’s just part of the process. These aren’t my goals to get to quarters and round of 16; I want to keep going. I'm going for that (U.S. Open) wild card, trying to go all the way.”
   Virginia senior Ryan Shane, the eighth seed and defending champion in singles, lost to 9-16 seed Joao Monteiro of Virginia Tech 1-6, 7-5, 6-2. Virginia won its second straight NCAA team title on Tuesday.
   In women's doubles, No. 4 seeds Manasse and Denise Starr will meet unseeded sisters Mayar Sherif Ahmed and Rana Sherif Ahmed of Fresno State at 10 a.m.
   Also advancing to the doubles quarterfinals were:
   --Bay Area residents Hadley Berg and Paige Cline of South Carolina in the women's draw. Berg is from Greenbrae and Cline from Kentfield. Unseeded, they will take on top-seeded Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay of North Carolina.
   --No. 5-8 men's seeds Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat of Cal.

NCAA Championships

In Tulsa, Okla.

Northern California results

Men's singles
Round of 16

   Mackenzie McDonald (6), UCLA, def. Skander Mansouri (9-16), Wake Forest, 6-1, 6-2.

Men's doubles

Round of 16

   Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat (5-8), Cal, def. Henry Craig and Alex Gasson, Denver, 6-4, 2-6 [13-11].
   Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki (2), UCLA, def. Jack Schipanski and Luis Valero, Tennessee, 6-3, 6-3.

Women's singles

Round of 16

   Jasmine Lee (9-16), Mississippi State, def. Maegan Manasse (6), Cal, 6-4, 7-6 (0).

Women's doubles

Round of 16

   Hadley Berg and Paige Cline, South Carolina, def. Pleun Burgmans and Alizee Michaud, Auburn, 6-0, 6-4.
   Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr (4), Cal, def. Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai and Luisa Stefani, Pepperdine, 2-6, 6-4 [10-6].
   Mayar Sherif Ahmed and Rana Sherif Ahmed, Fresno State, def. Danielle Collins and Meghan Kelley, Virginia, 6-4, 6-2.

Cal's Manasse wins Pac-12 women's singles title

Cal's Maegan Manasse practices her serve
during the Sacramento Challenger last July.
Photo by Paul Bauman

   Cal's Maegan Manasse ended UCLA's streak of three consecutive women's singles titles in the Pacific-12 Conference Championships.
   Manasse, seeded first, outclassed Catherine Harrison, the third seed and defending champion, 6-3, 6-2 in Sunday's final in Ojai, Calif. Manasse is ranked 11th and Harrison 17th.
   Jennifer Brady won the title in 2014 and Kyle McPhillips in 2013.
   Manasse, a junior from Redondo Beach in the Los Angeles area, became the third Bear to win the Pac-12 singles crown and first since Zsuzsanna Fodor 10 years ago. Raquel Kops-Jones triumphed in 2004.
   In the women's doubles final, Stanford's Melissa Lord and Carol Zhao fell to Arizona State's Alexandra Osborne and Ebony Panoho 6-3, 6-1. Both teams were unseeded.
   Lord, a freshman from Bloomfield, Conn., and Zhao, a junior from Canada, have played together for only one month.
   Zhao won the 2015 title with Taylor Davidson, who was seeded second this year with Caroline Doyle of San Francisco. They lost to unseeded Nour Abbes and Miki Kobayashi of Washington in the quarterfinals.
   Osborne and Panoho, the 22nd-ranked pair, gave Arizona State its first Pac-12 title and became only the third team from a school outside California to win the doubles crown.
   Arizona's Lindsay Blau and Michelle Gough prevailed in 2000, and the Wildcats' Alix Creek and Danielle Scott captured the 1992 title.
  ATP World Tour -- Former Stanford stars Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, seeded second, beat wild cards Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Marcel Granollers of Spain 7-5, 7-5 for their third title in the Barcelona Open and 111th overall.

Cal men fall in Pac-12 final; Manasse seeks women's title

Mackenzie McDonald of  Piedmont beat Florian Lakat
on Court 1 to clinch UCLA's 4-1 victory over Cal in the
Pac-12 final. 2015 photo by Paul Bauman 

   Cal fell short of the men's title in the Pacific-12 Confererence Championships, but a Bear could win the women's singles crown.
   The Cal men, seeded third and ranked 16th, lost to UCLA, seeded first and ranked second, 4-1 on Saturday in the Pac-12 final in Ojai. No Cal team has won the Pac-12 title.
   Mackenzie McDonald, ranked No. 10, clinched the victory for the Bruins (22-2) on Court 1. The junior from Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area outlasted No. 27 Florian Lakat 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, dropping Cal to 17-6.
   No. 1 seed Maegan Manasse of Cal will play No. 3 seed and defending champion Catherine Harrison of UCLA for the women's singles title today at 10 a.m. (Pac-12 Network).
   Manasse, ranked 11th, wore down fourth-seeded Giuliana Olmos of USC and Fremont in the Bay Area 6-4, 6-0. Harrison, ranked 17th, outclassed seventh-seeded Lauren Marker of Arizona 6-1, 6-4.
   Manasse will try to become the third Bear to win the Pac-12 singles title and first since Zsuzsanna Fodor 10 years ago. Raquel Kops-Jones triumphed in 2004.
   In today's 1 p.m. doubles final, Stanford's Melissa Lord and Carol Zhao will meet Alexandra Osborne and Ebony Panoho of Arizona State in a matchup of unseeded teams. Zhao won the title with Taylor Davidson last year.
   Osborne and Panoho upset fourth-seeded Olmos and Gabby Smith 6-2.

PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS

In Ojai, Calif.

Men's final

No. 2 UCLA 4, No. 16 Cal 1

Doubles

   1. No. 5 Mackenzie McDonald (Piedmont) and Martin Redlicki, UCLA, def. No. 11 Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat, 6-1.

   2.  Andre Goransson and Oskar Wikberg, Cal, led Karue Sell and Joseph Di Giulio, 5-4, abandoned.
   3. Austin Rapp and Maxime Cressy, UCLA, def. J.T. Nishimura (San Jose) and Mads Engsted, 6-3.
   Order of finish: 1, 3

Singles

   1. No. 10 Mackenzie McDonald (Piedmont), UCLA, def. No. 27 Florian Lakat, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
   2. No. 42 Martin Redlicki, UCLA, def. No. 28 Andre Goransson, 6-2, 6-3.
   3. No. 55 Gage Brymer, UCLA, led No. 82 Billy Griffith (Fresno), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 3-0.
   4. Filip Bergevi, Cal, def. No. 92 Karue Sell, UCLA, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
   5. Logan Staggs (Tracy), UCLA, led No. 122 Oskar Wikberg, 4-6, 7-6 (0), 4-2.
   6. Joseph Di Giulio, UCLA, def. J.T. Nishimura (San Jose), 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3.
   Order of finish: 2, 4, 6, 1

Women's singles semifinals

   No. 11 Maegan Manasse (1), Cal, def. No. 24 Giuliana Olmos (4), USC/Fremont, 6-4, 6-0.
   No. 17 Catherine Harrison (3), UCLA, def. No. 51 Lauren Marker (7), Arizona, 6-1, 6-4.

Women's doubles semifinals

   No. 22 Alexandra Osborne and Ebony Panoho, Arizona State, def. No. 7 Giuliana Olmos (Fremont) and Gabby Smith (4), USC, 6-2.
   Melissa Lord and Carol Zhao, Stanford, def. No. 34 Nour Abbes and Miki Kobayashi, Washington, 6-4.

Virginia, with Altamirano, earns top men's ranking

Collin Altamirano of Sacramento helped
Virginia win the NCAA team title last May
as a freshman. 2014 photo by Paul Bauman

   Defending champion Virginia, with sophomore Collin Altamirano of Sacramento, opens 2016 as the No. 1 men's collegiate team in the country.
   The Intercollegiate Tennis Association released the rankings today.
   Altamirano was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team at No. 3 singles and No. 3 doubles last spring. He finished the season 20-3 in singles and 18-4 in doubles and was selected to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference third team.
   Altamirano won the singles title in the 2013 USTA Boys 18 National Championships and was the runner-up in 2014. He reached the U.S. Open junior quarterfinals in 2013.
   The Stanford and Cal men are ranked 20th and 21st, respectively. The schools each placed one player in the singles top 10. The Bears' Andre Goransson, a junior from Sweden, is ranked third, and the Cardinal's Tom Fawcett, a 6-foot-5 (1.96-meter) sophomore from Winnetka, Ill., is ninth.
   On the women's side, Cal is ranked sixth and Stanford eighth.
   The Bears have two women in the singles top 10: No. 5 Maegan Manasse, a junior from Redondo Beach, and No. 10 Klara Fabikova, a senior from the Czech Republic.
   Stanford's highest-ranked woman in singles is No. 20 Taylor Davidson, a junior from Statesville, N.C.
   Cal's Manasse and Denise Starr, a junior from Brooklyn, N.Y., are ranked third in doubles.
   Stars Carol Zhao, a Stanford junior from Canada, and Mackenzie McDonald, a junior on the UCLA men's team from Piedmont, are unranked because they played pro rather than college tournaments last fall. They finished last season ranked second and third in college, respectively.  
   Both McDonald ($100,000 Tiburon) and Zhao ($50,000 Toronto) advanced to the semifinals of pro tournaments in their home regions last October.

   Zhao reached the NCAA singles final last May, losing to Jamie Loeb of North Carolina. Loeb, a sophomore, then turned pro.

COLLEGE RANKINGS

(Top 10 and Northern California)

Men's team

   1. Virginia
   2. Oklahoma
   3. Texas Christian
   4. Baylor
   5. Texas A&M
   6. Illinois
   7. Georgia
   8. USC
   9. North Carolina
   10. Ohio State
   20. Stanford
   21. Cal
   55. USF
   57. UC Davis
   67. Fresno State

Men's singles

   1. Dominik Koepfer, Tulane
   2. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, Virginia
   3. Andre Goransson, Cal
   4. Cameron Norrie, Texas Christian
   5. Arthur Rinderknech, Texas A&M
   6. Christopher Eubanks, Georgia Tech
   7. Mikael Torpegaard, Ohio State
   8. Felipe Soares, Texas Tech
   9. Tom Fawcett, Stanford
   10. Hugo Di Feo, Ohio State
   30. Florian Lakat, Cal
   38. Alec Adamson, UC Davis
   39. Billy Griffith, Cal
   54. Oskar Wikberg, Cal
   57. David Wilczynski, Stanford
   61. Michael Genender, Stanford
   76. Connor Farren (Hillsborough), USC
   86. Filip Bergevi, Cal
   89. Maciek Romanowicz, Stanford
   98. Logan Staggs (Tracy), UCLA

Men's doubles

   1. Brett Clark and Robert Kelly, North Carolina
   2. Hugo Dojas and Felipe Soares, Texas Tech
   3. Gordon Watson and Diego Hidalgo, Florida
   4. Jack Findel-Hawkins and Yannick Zuern, North Florida
   5. Mac Styslinger and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, Virginia
   6. Alex Lawson and Quentin Monaghan, Notre Dame
   7. Filip Vittek and Jordan Angus, San Diego
   8. Hayden Sabatka and Bart Van Leijsen, New Mexico
   9. Arjun Kadhe and Julian Cash, Oklahoma State
   10. Ben Wagland and Austin Smith, Georgia
   30. Mikus Losbergs and Kasparas Zemaitelis, Sacramento State
   38. Florian Lakat and Oskar Wikberg, Cal
   42. Maciek Romanowicz and Nolan Paige, Stanford
   59. Andre Goransson and Florian Lakat, Cal

Women's team

   1. Vanderbilt
   2. USC
   3. Florida
   T4. North Carolina
   T4. Georgia
   6. Cal
   7. Virginia
   8. Stanford
   9. UCLA
   10. Texas A&M
   45. Saint Mary's
   54. Fresno State
   72. San Jose State

Women's singles

   1. Joana Eidukonyte, Clemson
   2. Francesca Di Lorenzo, Ohio State
   3. Belinda Woolcock, Florida
   4. Danielle Collins, Virginia
   5. Maegan Manasse, Cal
   6. Hayley Carter, North Carolina
   7. Sinead Lohan, Miami
   8. Julia Elbaba, Virginia
   9. Stephanie Wagner, Miami
   10. Klara Fabikova, Cal
   20. Taylor Davidson, Stanford
   26. Maiar Sherif Ahmed, Fresno State
   39. Caroline Doyle, Stanford
   42. Giuliana Olmos (Fremont), USC
   43. Paige Cline (Kentfield), South Carolina
   81. Olivia Hauger, Cal
   90. Marie Klocker, San Jose State
   101. Andrea Ka, USF
   103. Jamie Pawid, Saint Mary's

Women's doubles

   1. Aldila Sutjiadi and Mami Adachi, Kentucky
   2. Whitney Kay and Hayley Carter, North Carolina
   3. Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr, Cal
   4. Giuliana Olmos (Fremont) and Gabby Smith, USC
   5. Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan, Florida
   6. Anna Sanford and Miho Kowase, Ohio State
   7. Maddie Lipp and Alex Chatt, Northwestern
   8. Luisa Stefani and Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai, Pepperdine
   9. Kelsey Laurente and Maria Alvarez, Oklahoma State
   10. Taylor Davidson and Caroline Doyle, Stanford
   42. Sammi Hampton and Kassidy Jump (Granite Bay), Arizona State
   43. Klara Fabikova and Oliva Hauger, Cal
   T54. Giuliana Olmos and Rianna Valdes, USC
   58. Sophie Watts and Anneka Watts, Fresno State

NorCal collegians help U.S. beat France for title

Mackenzie McDonald, a UCLA junior from Piedmont
in the San Francisco Bay Area, led the United States to
a 4-1 win over France. 2015 file photo by Paul Bauman

   The United States, featuring several players with Northern California ties, defeated host France 4-1 on Sunday in Rennes for its fifth straight championship in the Master'U BNP Paribas.

   Mackenzie McDonald, a UCLA junior from Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area, beat Gregory Jacq 6-4, 7-6 (tiebreaker score not available) at No. 1 men's singles.
   Cal's Maegan Manasse and Florida's Brooke Austin topped Alice Bacquie and Clemence Fayol 7-5, 6-1. Manasse fell to Victoria Larrier 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 women's singles.
   The Americans opened the tournament with a 7-0 victory over Great Britain in the quarterfinals and followed with a 4-3 win over Germany.
   The U.S. team consisted of three men (McDonald, Tom Fawcett of Stanford and Austin Smith of Georgia) and three women (Manasse, Austin and Danielle Collins of Virginia).
   McDonald reached the semifinals of the $100,000 Tiburon (Calif.) Challenger and quarterfinals of the $100,000 Sacramento Challenger in October.
   Austin advanced to the semis of the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger in July, and Collins won the 2014 NCAA singles title.

Cal's Goransson reaches semis in National Indoors

Andre Goransson practices during the Tiburon
Challenger in September. Photo by Paul Bauman 

    Andre Goransson of Cal won two matches on Friday to reach the semifinals of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
   The 22nd-ranked Goransson defeated Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and fourth-seeded Arthur Rinderknech of Texas A&M 6-3, 7-6 (5) to improve to 12-1 this fall.
   Goransson, a junior from Sweden, will face Chris Eubanks in today's third match. In the other semifinal, third-seeded Dominik Koepfer of Tulane will meet Joao Monteiro of Virginia Tech. Monteiro surprised top-seeded Thai-Son Kwiatkowski of reigning NCAA champion Virginia 6-1, 7-6 (4).
   Coverage will begin at 6 a.m. PST on WatchESPN.com.
   Eubanks eliminated Stanford's Tom Fawcett 6-3, 7-5. Fawcett, a 6-foot-6 (1.98-meter) sophomore from Winnetka, Ill., had upset second-seeded Cameron Norrie of Texas Christian 6-4, 7-6 (8) earlier Friday in the second round.
   On the women's side, second-seeded Maegan Manasse of Cal lost to Sydney Campbell of reigning NCAA champion Vanderbilt 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the second round. Manasse is ranked fourth and Campbell seventh.
   However, top-seeded Manasse and Denise Starr outclassed Giuliana Olmos, from Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Gabby Smith of USC 6-2, 6-2 to reach the doubles semifinals.
   Manasse and Starr will play third-seeded Mami Adachi and Aldila Sutjiadi of Kentucky.

USTA/ITA NATIONAL INDOOR INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

In Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

(Northern California results only)

Men's singles

Second round

   Andre Goransson, Cal, def. Mikael Torpegaard, Ohio State, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

   Tom Fawcett, Stanford, def. Cameron Norrie (2), TCU, 6-4, 7-6 (8).

Quarterfinals

   Andre Goransson, Cal, def. Arthur Rinderknech (4), Texas A&M, 6-2, 7-5.

   Chris Eubanks, Georgia Tech, def. Tom Fawcett, Stanford, 6-3, 7-5.

Men's doubles

Quarterfinals

   Hugo Dojas and Felipe Soares, Texas Tech, def. Shawn Hadavi and Richard Pham (Saratoga resident), Columbia, 7-5, 7-5.

Women's singles

Second round

   Sydney Campbell, Vanderbilt, def. Maegan Manasse (2), Cal, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Women's doubles

Quarterfinals

   Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr (2), Cal, def. Giuliana Olmos (Fremont resident) and Gabby Smith, USC, 6-2, 6-2.   

Cal's Manasse survives scare in National Indoors

Cal's Maegan Manasse, shown in July,
rallied to beat Nuria Ormeno Ruiz of
Colorado in the first round of the Nat-
ional Indoors, Photo by Paul Bauman

   Top-seeded Danielle Collins of Virginia lost on Thursday in the first round of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.
   Second-seeded Maegan Manasse of Cal almost joined Collins on the sideline.
   Manasse survived 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3 against Nuria Ormeno Ruiz of Colorado at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
   Collins, last year's NCAA singles champion, fell to Katarina Adamovic of Oklahoma State 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
   Manasse will face Sydney Campbell of reigning NCAA champion Vanderbilt today in the second round.
   Florida's Brooke Austin, a semifinalist in the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger in July, beat Stanford's Taylor Davidson 6-4, 6-2.
   In doubles, top-seeded Manasse and Denise Starr will play Giuliana Olmos, from Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Gabby Smith of USC in today's quarterfinals.
   In men's singles, Tom Fawcett and David Wilczynski of Stanford and Andre Goransson of Cal reached the second round. Fawcett defeated Notre Dame's Quentin Monaghan, an NCAA semifinalist last May, 6-2, 6-4.

USTA/ITA NATIONAL INDOOR INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

In Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

(Northern California results only)

Women's singles

First round

   Maegan Manasse (2), Cal, def. Nuria Ormeno Ruiz, Colorado, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

   Belinda Woolcock (7), Florida, def. Klara Fabikova, Cal, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4.

   Julia Elbaba (6), Virginia, def. Giuliana Olmos (Fremont resident), USC, 6-0, 6-1.

   Francesca Di Lorenzo, Ohio State, def. Maiar Sherif Ahmed, Fresno State, 6-4, 6-1.

   Brooke Austin, Florida, def. Taylor Davidson, Stanford, 6-4, 6-2.

Women's doubles

First round

   Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr (1), Cal, bye.
   Giuliana Olmos (Fremont resident) and Gabby Smith, USC, bye.
   Klara Fabikova and Olivia Hauger, Cal, bye.
   Taylor Davidson and Caroline Doyle (San Francisco resident), Stanford, bye.

Second round

   Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr (1), Cal, def. Maria Alvarez and Kelsey Laurent, Oklahoma State, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4) [10-7].
   Giuliana Olmos (Fremont resident) and Gabby Smith, USC, def. Lynn Kiro and Alexandra Valenstein, Texas Tech, 6-3, 7-6 (5).
   Danielle Collins and Meghan Kelley, Virginia, def. Klara Fabikova and Olivia Hauger, Cal, 7-5, 6-1.
   Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan, Florida, def. Taylor Davidson and Caroline Doyle (San Francisco resident), Stanford, 4-6, 6-2 [10-7].     

Men's singles

First round

   David Wilczynski, Stanford, def. Shawn Hadavi, Columbia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
   Andre Goransson, Cal, def. Diogo Rocha, Denver, 6-1, 6-2.
   Tom Fawcett, Stanford, def. Quentin Monaghan, Notre Dame, 6-2, 6-4.

Men's doubles

First round

  Michal Rolski and Mike Vermeer, Columbia, def. Nils Skajaa and Vasco Valverde, USF, 6-0, 3-6 [10-1].
  Shawn Hadavi and Richard Pham (Saratoga resident), Columbia, bye.
  Tom Fawcett and David Wilczynski, Stanford, bye.

Second round

   Shawn Hadavi and Richard Pham (Saratoga resident), Columbia, def. Daniel Bednarczyk and Sam Monette, Indiana, 6-4, 6-2.
   Quentin Monaghan and Alex Lawson, Notre Dame, def. Tom Fawcett and David Wilczynski, Stanford, 6-2, 6-3.

Cal's Manasse falls in Oracle/ITA Masters semis

   Danielle Collins of Virginia again dashed Cal's hopes on Saturday.
   The fourth-seeded Collins beat top-seeded Maegan Manasse 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-4 to reach the final of the inaugural Oracle/ITA Masters in Malibu, Calif.
   Earlier Saturday in the quarterfinals, Manasse defeated Luisa Stefani of host Pepperdine 7-5, 6-2, and Collins trounced Sinead Lohan of Miami 6-1, 6-0.
   Collins defeated two Cal players, Anett Schutting in the second round and Lynn Chi in the final, at the 2014 NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. Schutting has completed her eligibility, but Chi is a senior.
   Collins will face Hayley Carter of North Carolina in today's final. Carter beat Giuliana Olmos, a USC senior from Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area, 6-4, 6-3 in the quarterfinals and Joana Eidukonyte of Clemson 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals. Olmos ousted second-seeded Stephanie Wagner of Miami in the first round on Friday.
   Olmos will play for the doubles title with fellow Trojan Gabby Smith. They defeated No. 2 seeds Sydney Campbell and Courtney Colton of reigning NCAA champion Vanderbilt 6-2, 6-3.
   Olmos and Smith will meet Mami Adachi and Aldila Sutjiadi of Kentucky. Adachi and Sutjiadi toppled No. 1 seeds Manasse and Denise Starr 7-6 (3), 6-3.

Cal's Manasse upsets fourth seed in Stockton qualifying

   Wild card Maegan Manasse, an All-American at Cal, outlasted fourth-seeded Naomi Cavaday of Great Britain 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Sunday in the first round of qualifying for the $50,000 Pro Circuit Challenger at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
   Manasse will play wild card Caroline Doyle, a Stanford All-American from San Francisco, today after a 10 a.m. match. Doyle routed Andreea Ghitescu of Romania 6-3, 6-1.
   Also advancing was top-seeded Kristie Ahn, a former Stanford star. She beat fellow American Jennifer Elie 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.  

$50,000 USTA PRO CIRCUIT CHALLENGER

At University of the Pacific in Stockton

First-round qualifying 

   Kristie Ahn (1), United States, def. Jennifer Elie, United States, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.
   Chanel Simmonds (2), South Africa, def. Rosie Johanson, Canada, 6-1, 6-4.
   Heidi El Tabakh (3), Canada, def. Rianna Valdes, United States, 6-4, 6-1.
   Maegan Manasse, United States, def. Naomi Cavaday (4), Great Britain, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

   Tori Kinard (7), United States, def. Sophie Chang, United States, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
   Anne-Liz Jeukeng, United States, def. Alexandra Cercone, United States, 7-5, ret.
   Renata Zarazua, Mexico, def. Kelly Chen, United States, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
   Storm Sanders (8), Australia, def. Nika Kukharchuk, Russia, 6-4, 6-3.

   Jan Abaza (5), United States, def. Julia Elbaba, United States, 7-5, 6-1.
   Ema Burgic Bucko, Bosnia & Herzegovina, def. Robin Anderson, United States, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
   Ashley Weinhold, United States, def. Josie Kuhlman, United States, 6-2, 6-1.
   Jessica Failla, United States, def. Brynn Boren, United States, 6-1, 6-2.

   Naomi Totka (6), Hungary, def. Mary Closs, United States, 6-3, 6-4.
   Maria Patrascu, Canada, def. Alaina Miller, United States, 6-3, 6-4.
   Jacqueline Cako, United States, def. Mari Osaka, Japan, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
   Caroline Doyle, United States, def. Andreea Ghitescu, Romania, 6-3, 6-1. 

Today's schedule
(Starting at 10 a.m.) 

Stadium

   Chanel Simmonds (2), South Africa, vs. Maria Patrascu, Canada.

   Jan Abaza (5), United States, vs. Ashley Weinhold, United States.

Court 1

   Kristie Ahn (1), United States, vs. Ema Burgic Bucko, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

   Heidi El Tabakh (3), Canada, vs. Renata Zarazua, Mexico.

Court 2

   Naomi Totka (6), Hungary, vs. Anne-Liz Jeukeng, United States.

   Storm Sanders (8), Australia, vs. Jessica Failla, United States.

Court 6

   Tori Kinard (7), United States, vs. Jacqueline Cako, United States.

   Maegan Manasse, United States, vs. Caroline Doyle, United States.