Varsity Girls Tennis Closes Out Season at DAL Division Championships
On Tuesday, the Varsity Girls Tennis team traveled to Northgate High School for the Diablo Athletic League (DAL) Division Championship tournament. It was a record turnout as 16 Dons participated, two in singles and 14 in doubles (7 teams). Sophomore Aamena Shipchandler was seeded #6 on the singles side and advanced to the third round, and some of the other ...
Varsity Girls Tennis Seniors Hold “Court” on Senior Night against Las Lomas
(L to R) Seniors Lilou Picard, Parker Grenby, Nicole Parlett, Liv Heglie, Emily Jones, Jacqueline Kuhner, Olivia Dawkins, and Anna MacLeod Although Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented a hourglass shaped court in 1874 as part of his “New and Improved Court for Playing the Ancient Game of Tennis”, most tennis courts throughout history have been rectangular, measuring 78 feet long, ...
Northgate “serves up” 8-1 victory against Varsity Girls Tennis
There are 4 types of serves in tennis. A flat serve, hit with a Continental or Eastern grip, is hard and powerful, making it ideal for a first serve. A slice serve creates sidespin, which can cause the ball to bounce farther away when hit into the outer corner of the service box, or right into your opponent’s body when hit down ...
Varsity Girls Tennis Unfortu“net”ly Falls 8-1 to Campo
Tennis court nets are 42” high at the posts and 36” high in the center. They can be made from polyethylene, polyester, nylon, or steel mesh. Although net posts are typically outside the alley in the “doubles” position, professional courts can also be set up with the posts in the “singles” position inside the alley. Now for some fun facts ...
Varsity Girls Tennis Knocks off College Park 6-3
As I sat down to write this article, I was thinking that I was running out of content having talked about the history of tennis, scoring, the US Open, rackets, balls, and so forth. Although I came up with a few other ideas that could show up in future articles, I thought I would dedicate this one to female athletes for ...
JV Girls Tennis lose 8 -5 to Miramonte
Acalanes faced a strong Miramonte team on Tuesday, but the girls did win 3 lines of singles (Evelyn Lee, Ash Dawkins and Lauren Anderson) and 2 lines of doubles (Rachel Feldman and Addy Jeffery, Audrey Parkin and Sabrina Koo). We will get them next time! ...
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VARSITY ROSTER
Grace Colaco
Olivia Dawkins
Piper Duff
Lauren Foster
Parker Grenby
Liv Heglie
Emily Jones
Jacqueline Kuhner
Jadith LaBonge
Anna MacLeod
Lucy O’Brien
Sienna Moise
Nicole Parlett
Ridhi Patel
Emily Roberts
Aamena Shipchandler
Hanna Wisniewska
JUNIOR VARSITY ROSTER
Lauren Anderson
Grace Britto
Elisavet Chatzigeorgiou
Ash Dawkins
Rachel Feldman
Kathryn Grice
Lotta Griemans
Addyson Jeffery
Molly Jones
Sabrina Koo
Phoebe LaBonge
Evelyn Lee
Hetty Lofting
Tatum McElhattan
Maddie Obertello
Audrey Parkin
Alessa Smith
Zoe Stafford
Kate Widmann
Riley Zirkel