{"id":147763,"date":"2026-01-24T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:01:21","slug":"bears-suffer-first-loss-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147763\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Suffer First Loss of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__byline\">MTEN1\/23\/2026 8:30 PM | By: <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThe No. 15 California Golden Bears (4-1) suffered their first loss of the season against the No. 17 Oklahoma Sooners (3-0), 4-2, in their first match of the ITA Kickoff Weekend, at Hellman Tennis Complex on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>To begin the match, Cal secured the doubles point after doubles wins on courts two and three. On court two, <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/fryderyk-lechno-wasiutynski\/25903\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25903\" target=\"_blank\">Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/andrea-meduri\/27506\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27506\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Meduri<\/a> won 6-4, while teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/alex-aney\/25271\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25271\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Aney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/leonardo-cattaneo\/26806\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26806\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo Cattaneo<\/a> clinched the doubles point with a 7-6(10) win.<\/p>\n<p>In singles play against the Sooners, the Bears fell short on courts, one, three, four and six with <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/timofey-stepanov\/25277\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25277\" target=\"_blank\">Timofey Stepanov<\/a> giving Cal its only point with a 6-4, 7-6(2) win over No. 46 Luis Alvarez on court two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal vs. Oklahoma Breakdown<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSingles&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tNo. 57 Oscar Lacides (OU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/tiago-silva\/26802\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26802\" target=\"_blank\">Tiago Silva<\/a> (Cal) 6-2, 6-2&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/timofey-stepanov\/25277\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25277\" target=\"_blank\">Timofey Stepanov<\/a> (Cal) def. No. 46 Luis Alvarez (OU) 6-4, 7-6(2)&#13;<br \/>\n\tJohan Rodriguez (OU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/fryderyk-lechno-wasiutynski\/25903\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25903\" target=\"_blank\">Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski<\/a> (Cal) 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 (clinch)&#13;<br \/>\n\tOrel Kimhi (OU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/bernardo-munk-mesa\/25281\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25281\" target=\"_blank\">Bernardo Munk Mesa<\/a> (Cal) 6-3, 6-3&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/andrea-meduri\/27506\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27506\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Meduri<\/a> (Cal) vs. No. 47 Asahi Harazaki (OU) 3-6, 6-4, 2-0 (UF)&#13;<br \/>\n\tAlejandro Melero (OU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/leonardo-cattaneo\/26806\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26806\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo Cattaneo<\/a> (Cal) 6-0, 6-1&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Doubles<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tNhavene\/Lacides (OU) def. 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Trondson\/Harazaki (OU) &#8211; 7-6(10) (clinch)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Order of Completion:<br \/>\nSingles: 6, 1, 4, 2, 3<br \/>\nDoubles: 2, 1, 3<\/p>\n<p>Up Next:\u00a0The Bears will face No. 21 USC on Saturday at 11am.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; MTEN1\/23\/2026 8:30 PM | By: &#13; &#13; The No. 15 California Golden Bears (4-1) suffered their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-147763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}