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Men's Tennis

Bay Area Battle

No. 15 Stanford (14-6, 4-2 Pac-12)
No. 11 California (17-6, 4-1 Pac-12)
Berkeley, Calif. • Hellman Tennis Center
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STANFORD, Calif. – No. 15 Stanford closes out the Pac-12 and regular-season as it sets to travel to No. 11 Cal Saturday for a 3:30 p.m. PT tilt. The match is set to be aired live on Pac-12 Networks.

Last Time Out:
The Cardinal is coming off a split week where it swept No. 37 Washington 4-0 before falling in a tight 4-3 match to No. 23 Oregon on the road in the Pacific Northwest. 

All-Time Series History:
California – The Cardinal and the Golden Bears have been battling for 50 years since 1967 with Stanford dominating the series with a 92-22 all-time record. Earlier this season on The Farm, the Cardinal won a thrilling 4-3 match that came down to a third-set tiebreak with Michael Genender clinching the match.

All-time against the Bears, Taube Director of Men's Tennis Paul Goldstein is 2-3. 

Wily D-Willy:
Junior David Wilczynski has amassed a phenomenal campaign this season - he's posted singles win streaks of six and seven to compile a 16-3 duals record.

In doubles action, he's teamed up with Brandon Sutter to roll to a 12-3 duals record while putting up two five-match streaks and hold a current three-match streak.

On the year Wilczynski has been honored twice by the Pac-12 as Player of the Week. 
 
Fall Recap:
The Cardinal came off another successful fall campaign where Tom Fawcett helped lead the U.S. team to victory for the second straight year at the 2016 Master'U BNP Paribus International Team competition in France in November.

Fawcett also reached the quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships and was the consolation runner-up in the National Individual Indoor Championships. He entered the season ranked No. 8 by the ITA.

In addition, Yale Goldberg and Sameer Kumar captured the ITA Northwest Regional doubles title. The duo fought off multiple match points in the championship en route to the title. The team entered the dual season ranked No. 15 by the ITA.

In the final tune-up of the season before dual play, the Cardinal traveled to the Sherwood Collegiate Cup in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Jack Barber, in his first match in 22 months after recovering from surgery, topped No. 11 Gage Brymer of UCLA before finishing as a semifinalist in the singles main draw.