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Girls’ Tennis defeats Logan 5-2 By Michael Ren Staff Writer Girls’ Tennis competed against James Logan High School in their final regular season game on Friday, October 28. In a thrilling series of matches, the Varsity team won five of seven games played, and maintained their undefeated record for the entirety of the regular season. The meet was also the team’s Senior Night. Each court was decorated with rows of green and white balloons, with many posters also hung up for Captain Senior Jayashri Viswanathan. “The whole day was in honor of Jayashri Viswanathan, she was our only senior,” said Girls’ Tennis Coach Linda Campana. “She was our woman of the hour, and I think she did really well, and she will be missed tremendously.” The meet began with the teams introducing their players and cheering them on. After a few minutes of warmups, matches began. Players on both sides started out playing with a slow and measured tempo, trying to get a feel of each other. However, the level of intensity substantially rose as the matches progressed. MSJ won two of the three singles matches. The team’s singles players dominated in their two wins, with each of them sweeping their match 2-0 and winning the sets either 6-1 or 6-2. Logan managed to take the third match in an intense battle, with energetic back and forth sets that could have gone either way and both players performing extremely well. In doubles matches, MSJ again won two out of three matches played. “I worked with the doubles, and they were all sticking to the game plan, working in there down the line. They were serving down the tee, and talking to their partner, sending it deep and letting their partner put it away. So they were right on the game plan,” said Campana. She also specifically praised the doubles duo of Sophomore Brittany Tran and Junior Courtney Tran, who won their sets 6-1 and 6-2. The closest match of the day was the doubles match played by Sophomore Kaitlin Hsu
Senior Jayashri Viswanathan hits a ball across the court.
and Junior Arabhi Thananjeyan. The MSJ and Logan teams were evenly matched, and it showed in the close scores. Although Logan managed to pull through in the third set, Campana praised the duo for their willingness to stick to the strategy. “Overall, we did really well, it was just this match that we faltered a
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little bit. They were all sticking to the game plan so it was really nice,” said Campana. With their final dual meet behind them, the team, which now boasts an undefeated regular season record of 14-0, is looking to have many successful seasons ahead of them. The team will remain relatively unchanged
in the future as only one player will graduate this year, so they will be able to stick together and continue to improve as a whole. Campana said, “Yes, that’s the plan,” looking forward to many more seasons yielding similarly impressive, if not better, results. ▪