Boys Tennis Opening Season

The Boy varsity tennis opened their season last week at Amador Valley (lost 0-9) and Gregori (won 9-0) and split the 2 matches. On Monday, they returned home to host the Bulldogs of Tracy and defeated the visitors 8 to 1. What a great start to the season!  

Playing without top players seniors Shuv Chakravarty and Sreeram Ranga and freshman Ady Rajan, freshman sensation Eidan Mercado stepped up to the #1 spot and defeated Tracy #1 Jake Boehm 6-2, 6-1. Senior Manas Mantri, playing #2 because of the above players, lost a close 3 set match to Tracy #2 Luke Fielsch 6-2, 5-7 2-10 in the 3rd set tie break. Sophomore Daniel Zhang moved up to #3 today and defeated Tracy #3 Dylan Ettinger 6-4, 6-2 in the tight match. Junior Pranav Sundar playing at #4 was given the player of the match award when he won 6-0, 6-0 and was the first one off the court.  The rest of the team dominated the 4 remaining matches losing a total of 5 games in those matches (Tracy forfeited #3 doubles).