Varsity Girls Tennis makes a “racket” with their play but falls to Las Lomas 7-2

Varsity Girls Tennis makes a “racket” with their play but falls to Las Lomas 7-2

Throughout most of tennis history, rackets were made of wood.  Heads were around 65 square inches, and some rackets came with fashionable trapezoid-shaped “cases”.  Although graphite composites rackets came out in the early 1980s, Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg tried to stage a comeback in 1985 in Monte Carlo with his standard small-headed wood racket because “he hadn't tried the ...
Varsity Girls Tennis team has "love" for each other despite falling to Northgate 7-2

Varsity Girls Tennis team has “love” for each other despite falling to Northgate 7-2

Anyone who follows tennis knows that the point scoring in a game goes "Love"-15-30-40 (plus "Deuce" and "Ad" if needed in order to win by 2 points), 6 games generally win a set, and 2 sets win a match in the women's game. The rules for high school girls are the same except if the players split the first 2 ...
Varsity Girls Tennis:  Dons Face Tough Cougar Team

Varsity Girls Tennis: Dons Face Tough Cougar Team

On Thursday the Varsity Girls Tennis team traveled the short distance to Moraga to take on a tough Campolindo Cougar team. There were a couple of very tight matches, but the Dons fell short on winning the overall match with a 3-6 score (note: 6 singles and 3 doubles play in normal league matches). In singles play, Line 3 Grace ...
JV Girls Tennis Defeats College Park 11-1

JV Girls Tennis Defeats College Park 11-1

The Girls JV tennis team won their match at  College Park on Tuesday 9/12, 11-1. They demonstrated good focus and ability to dominate their opponents. In addition, they exhibited very good sportsmanship with an inexperienced opponent. They were very gracious winners. The girls’ hard work in practice is paying off and they prevailed in their first league match of the season ...
Varsity Girls Tennis:  Dons Dominate the Falcons

Varsity Girls Tennis: Dons Dominate the Falcons

In Tuesdays action on the tennis courts, Acalanes hosted the College Park Falcons and dominated with an 8-1 overall win. An encouraging home crowd was treated to many great matches. Thank you to all who came to cheer on the Dons! In singles play at Line 1, Sophomore Aamena Shipchandler handled her opponent in two sets 6-2, 6-0. Junior Piper ...
Varsity Girls Kick off Great Tennis Weekend

Varsity Girls Kick off Great Tennis Weekend

On Friday, the Girls Varsity Tennis team travelled to Union City for a 12 team tournament at James Logan High School.  The team had a challenging match in the morning against San Ramon Valley, who appeared to be the strongest team in the field, but bounced back in the afternoon against Berkeley.  Olivia Dawkins, Lauren Foster, Hanna Wisnewski, and Liv ...

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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