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
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
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
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
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
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