Unstoppable Girls Tennis Team-- 9-0 for the Season

The undefeated girls tennis team wore pink on October 4 to highlight breast cancer awareness.We stopped by the SHS Tennis Courts on Wednesday October 4 to check in on the unstoppable Scarsdale High School Girls Varsity Tennis Team.

Katie Kendall plays first singles.While the girls awaited their opponents, the Mamaroneck tennis team, who were late due to a shortage of bus drivers, we spoke with Coach Jennifer Roane who shared some amazing news. The team has been undefeated for 4 years, that’s 68 matches! For the last two years they won the state championship at Billie Jean King Stadium in Flushing Queens and hope to be back there this year.

Roane explained that the weather cut the season short. The heat wave in September and the severe rains have caused the cancellation of non-league matches and the regular season draws to a close this week.

This year, for the first time ever, the team also has an assistant coach, math teacher Michael Kumaresan who was busy observing the matches, coaching the girls and clearly happy to be on board with this winning team.

We spoke to the players and were surprised to find that first and second singles were being played by high school sophomores and that the team included many underclassmen among the returning players who took the team to the championship last year.

Katie Kendall was on the court playing first singles and Charlene Dong, who is new to the team, played second singles. We watched Dong win point after point, and leave the court without dropping a game. Returning this year, Giana Marx plays third singles and was off the court in a flash, winning her pro-set 8-0.Newcomer Charlene Dong plays second singles.

Playing first doubles on Wednesday were juniors Kay Cotrell and Emily Hyman, both returning players who helped score the victory in Queens last year.

Second doubles was another young team with sophomore Jalyn Ryu and freshman Isabel Lin.

In third doubles two juniors are fast partners, Sophia Wu and Carly Alin. As Lu is a lefty, the team says both can use their forehands to hit the angles from both sides of the court.

The fourth doubles team featured two returning players who are the team captains: Maya Vora and Yelena Sahakyan, and experienced pair who also played in the finals last year.

Since the match had a late start and the courts needed to be vacated by 6 pm the girls played only one 8 game pro -set with no ad scoring.

Giana Marx used the pre-match wait to do her homework.For the 69th time they won! This time sweeping Mamaroneck on all seven courts, several winning 8-0.

The team plays their last league match on Thursday October 5 at Byram Hills and then will be onto their first post season match at Harrison High School on Sunday October 8, 2023. Roane will bring three singles players and three doubles teams there on Sunday.

Emily Hyman and Kay Cotrell play first doubles.Freshman Isable Lin and Sophomore Jalyn RyuJuniors Carly Alin and Sophia WuTeam Captains Yelena Sahakyan and Maya Vora