Now all of the area’s high school girls tennis teams are underway, finding varying degrees of success in their respective leagues.
Fayetteville-Manlius, long the dominant large-school program, opened with a 7-0 shutout over Syracuse East last Tuesday as the Hornets’ singles trio of Samhitha Adavikolanu, Angela Iskander and Trisha Adavikolanu did not lose a game in any of their matches.
Placed in doubles, Anna Manta and Phoebe Wang rolled past Rosealeenna George and Afiya Rahman 6-0, 6-1, with the team s of Alexis Ahn-Emma Zogg, Maya McKenzie-Camilla Wojtasiewicz and Sarah Brien-Katya Noble also prevailing.
It figured to get tougher against West Genesee on Thursday, but F-M did not drop a set against the Wildcats in another 7-0 shutout.
The closest of the four doubles matches had Trisha Adavikolanu pair with Iskander to win 6-3, 6-3 over Aislinn Dow and Sophia Lowry. Up in singles, Manta got past Katie Viau as Wang beat Angelina Llanos 6-3, 6-1 and Samhitha Adavikolanu handled Alyssa Congel 6-2, 6-0.
Jamesville-DeWitt made it two wins in a row by wiping out Central Square 7-0 on Aug. 29, with Inika Gajra, Riya Sharma and Celia Reid dropping just five games in six sets of singles play. The closest of the doubles matches had the Red Rams’ Libby Blair and Sydney Cline beating the Redhawks’ Carolyn Lederer and Grace Roberts 6-2, 6-4.
Then J-D swept East Syracuse Minoa 7-0 on Thursday afternoon, with Gajra, Reid and Cline all winning their singles matches in straight sets, while in the lone doubles match to go to three sets Blair and Serena Patel had to rally past Sammy Baadani and Alana Day 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Both teams played again Friday, with ESM falling 6-1 to West Genesee, saved from a shutout by Victoria Bodarenko’s 7-5, 6-1 win over Olivia Grome. J-D dominated again, shutting out Syracuse West 7-0 and claiming 14 sets there.
Before all this, ESM broke into the win column on Aug. 29 against Oswego, relying on a doubles sweep to overcome the Buccaneers’ trio of singles titles and prevail 4-3.
Katie Schmidt and Megan Volz routed Erica Henderson and CourtneyMills 6-1, 6-1, while Day and Bondarenko rolled past Rhuma Khawaja and Kalla Loadwick 6-1, 6-2.
As Jade Burgen and Marissa Drogo won, 6-1, 6-1, over Jenna Garcia and Nikki Regan, Taylor Lynch and Lauren Postma broke serve in the third set and got the clinching point over Laura Cummings and Grace Deland 7-6, 4-6, 7-5.
Then ESM won again last Tuesday, edging Fulton 4-3 as the doubles teams of Schmidt- Volz, Postma-Dorie Kanardy and Day-Sammy Baldani each won in straight sets. Caitlin Abbott got the lone singles point needed when she beat Katelyn Perkins 6-2, 6-1.
Christian Brothers Academy had defeated Marcellus 6-1 on Aug. 26, with Gieselle Vlassis and Grace DelPino earning shutouts as Julia DelPino topped Sophia Shaw 6-4, 6-1. In a three-set doubles battle, Annie Kilmartin and Isabella Mead won, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, over Morgan Walsh and Elaina Mahoney.
A 7-0 shutout of Pulaski followed on Aug. 30, with Meredith Sommers challenged the most in singles, but still defeating Holly Pacyon 7-5, 2-6, 6-1. Combined, the other six points were earned with just 10 games dropped in those 12 sets.
CBA got another 7-0 win last Tuesday over Jordan-Elbridge, Vlassis turning to singles as she, along with Julia DelPino and Grace DelPino, dropped just one game in six total sets. None of the Brothers’ doubles teams lost more than two games in any set, either.
To make it four in a row on Wednesday, CBA handled Phoenix 7-0, and of those seven matches, six were 6-0, 6-0 decisions. Only Grace DelPino gave up a single game in a 6-0, 6-1 win over Mia Graham.
Manlius-Pebble Hill lost to Chittenango in another 5-2 decision on Aug. 30. Parmees Fazeli did win in first singles, routing Anna Rooney 6-1, 6-1, while Amatees Fazeli and Caroline Mezzalingua won in doubles over Riley Ellis and Sarah Lanphear 7-6, 6-4.
Then MPH beat Homer 7-0 last Tuesday, with singles victories by Genevive Morrow, Ava Benedict and Parmees Fazeli, and the Trojans’ doubles teams also prevailing in two sets.
Moving to Thursday’s action, MPH lost 4-3 to Cazenovia, this despite Morrow, Benedict and Parmees Fazeli sweeping all of the singles matches. Mezzalingua and Amatees Fazeli lost in doubles to Alex Galle and Nina Royer 6-1, 7-5.
Bishop Grimes took a 5-2 defeat to Mexico in its Aug. 29 opener. Both points came in singles, where Katie Knittel worked past Juliana Smith 6-4, 6-1 and Michela Marturano handled Paige Masrouri 6-4, 6-2. The Tigers claimed all three contested doubles matches.
Again, a short roster proved costly on Aug. 30 in Grimes’ 6-1 defeat to Jordan-Elbridge. The lone point for the Cobras arrived when Sarah Falgiatano and Sofia Zianoski, playing doubles, beat the Eagles’ Delaney Dunham and Maddie Green 6-2, 6-2.
Grimes lost 4-3 to Phoenix last Tuesday. Marturano won in singles over Mia Graham 6-1, 6-1 as, in doubles, the teams of Falgiatano-Zianoski and Lenora Cendone-Jenny Morabito each claimed straight-set decisions. Then the Cobras lost 7-0 to Chittenango on Thursday.