NCAA Singles Await At Least 1 Bear At ITA Regionals

Berta Passola Folch (left), Mao Mushika (middle) and Naomi Xu (proper) play within the ITA regional singles semifinals on Monday.

WTEN10/12/2025 7:43 PM | By: Cal Athletics

BERKELEY – With three members of the California girls’s tennis workforce profitable Sunday to advance to Monday’s most important draw singles semifinals on the ITA Northwest Regional Championships, Cal is assured of getting not less than one Golden Bear qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship and will see two Bears advance to the postseason. Cal’s Mao Mushika performs teammate Naomi Xu on Monday, whereas Cal’s Berta Passola Folch faces Stanford’s Alyssa Ahn within the different semifinal. The two regional singles finalists qualify for the postseason.
 
The Cal duo of Mushika and Greta Greco Lucchina additionally superior to the principle draw doubles quarterfinals with a watch in the direction of the postseason, because the regional doubles champion qualifies for the NCAA Doubles Championship.
 
Xu – a sophomore – was the primary Bear to advance to Monday when she defeated Washington State’s ninth-seeded Maxine Murphy 6-4, 6-3 within the spherical of 16 after which bested Washington’s sixth-seeded and 96th-ranked Erika Matsuda 6-3, 6-0 within the quarterfinals. Passola Folch – the lone senior on the roster – adopted with two straight-set victories of her personal. First she beat Portland’s Dariya Radulova 6-0, 6-2 after which topped Stanford’s second-seeded and 58th-ranked Caroline Driscoll 6-1, 7-6(2). Mushika – a junior seeded first and ranked seventeenth – knocked off Portland’s Alaia Rubio Perez 6-0, 7-5 after which dispatched Washington’s ninth-seeded Alexia Jacobs 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3 to arrange her assembly with Xu within the semifinals. Passola Folch will face Stanford’s fifth-seeded and Ninetieth-ranked Ahn, with each semifinals slated to start out at 10:30 a.m. PT at Hellman.
 
In doubles, fifth-seeded Greco Lucchina and Mushika defeated Gonzaga’s ninth-seeded Emily Robertson and Elizabeth Tinderas 8-4 to maneuver onto Monday’s quarterfinals, by which they may play Stanford’s fourth-seeded and Ninetieth-ranked Valerie Glozman and Monika Ekstrand at 8:30 a.m. PT at Hellman. Cal’s ninth-seeded Passola Folch and Mille Johanna Moerk have been additionally in motion in Sunday’s spherical of 16 however fell to Washington’s third-seeded and Sixty fourth-ranked Matsuda and Carina Syrtveit 8-5.
 
The regional singles and doubles finals are scheduled for Tuesday at Hellman.

However, with rain within the forecast for Berkeley on Monday, match officers hope to not less than get the 4 8:30 a.m. quarterfinals performed at Cal and as soon as rain begins shift the remaining Monday matches to Stanford. Rain can be within the forecast for Tuesday in Berkeley, with the situation of these matches to be decided. Please verify CalBears.com and @CalWomensTennis on X on Monday for extra data.

 

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