Staples Tennis Continues To Dominate
Staples tennis is fire this year! The girls team brought their record to 10-1 after defeating Danbury on May 8th (WestportLocal - Staples Defeats Danbury) and the Wreckers boys advanced their record to 14-1 by defeating the Tigers in Ridgefield on Thursday, May 15th.
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Staples won 3 of 4 singles matches including a grueling 3rd set tie-breaker by Senior Captain Noah Wolf over his opponent Ridgefield's Nathanael Campos, 6-1, 5-7 and 10-7 in the longest match of the day.
Ridgefield's Aakarsh Patel needed a third set tie-breaker to defeat Staples' Junior Aleko Vergakis who was loudly cheered by his team as the played and after finishing their match in a strong showing of team support.
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In other singles action, talented Freshman Sebastian Elizondo dominated his match against Eujah Yurkovsky in straight sets, 6-0, 6-1. Junior Robert Jacob was unstoppable as well in his 6-0, 6-0 defeat of Wyatt Kehlmann.
Senior Captain Noah Wolff stretches to return a shot in his match against Nathanael Campos in his 3 set, tie-breaker victory.
In doubles play, Senior Captains Brett Lampert and Lucas Cegallos-Cala also triumphed in straight sets over Ridgefield's Pajak & Kleinman, 6-0, 6-2. Also with straight set 6-0, 6-3 victories were Senior Henry Grossberg and Sophomore Kiernan Anand who prevailed over Basker & Resnick.
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In the thrid doubles match, Senior Matthew Darien joined Sophomore Jonny Greenspan to defeat the team of Reiner & Utomo, 6-1, 6-1
Staples talent is quite evident with only one lass this day. Standout players having a great year include undeeateds Mattie Guadarrama and Shreyas Gorre with 9-0 and 10-0 doubles play victories this season other team members.
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