DAVIS, Calif. – The UC Davis women's tennis team officially opens its 2022-23 season at the Cal Fall Invitational at the Hellman Tennis Complex. Fourteen teams will be represented in the annual singles and doubles event, which begins this Friday, Sept. 30 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 2. Matches will start at 8 a.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
The field joining the Aggies in the Cal Fall Invitational include Arizona State, BYU, host Cal, Cal Poly, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Iowa State, Pacific, Sacramento State, Saint Mary's, San Francisco, San Jose State, Santa Clara and Stanford.
The Aggies return a strong squad this athletic year, welcoming back their top three singles winners from the spring 2022 season. Senior
Yana Gurevich will anchor UC Davis this season as she garnered All-Big West second team honors after a 14-5 singles record in the spring, primarily at the No. 2 spot.
Jumping onto the scene a year ago and gearing up for her sophomore season is
Arianna Stavropoulos, who led the Aggies with 15 singles victories, including six in Big West competition. Stavropoulos garnered honorable mention accolades at singles during her rookie campaign.
Senior leader
Lauren Ko also earned All-Big West conference accolades, teaming with
Sara Tsukamoto for the doubles recognition.
A decorated Aggie and leader, Tsukamoto will be a loss for UC Davis but also marks the only student-athlete from a year ago to not return this season.
Senior
Kristina Evloeva posted nine singles victories last season and has a lot of tennis under her belt and will be joined by an experienced group of
Olive Maunupau,
Carly Schwartzberg and
Michelle Zell. The trio combined to play 32 spring matches in 2022. Also returning for the Ags is
Daisy Maunupau,
Claire Galerkin and
Maddi Page.
UC Davis welcomes San Juan Hills High School standout
Kaia Wolfe was welcomed to the program. The San Clemente native was tabbed a four-star recruit by TennisRecruiting.net and was ranked as high as No. 25 nationally in the 2022 class. Wolfe was ranked No. 1 in Southern California for singles, doubles, and mixed doubles simultaneously over her career.
