12U Intermediate JTT wins State!
Sunday afternoon the 12u intermediate Junior Team Tennis team (Savannah Baptiste, Ross Cockrell, Denver Holden, Jack Marcus and Connor Russell) placed first at the State tournament in Midland, TX! Saturday they played 4 team matches and came out of their round robin as the leader in game percentage won. On Sunday, they played head to head in a bracket of the top 4 teams. They beat TCU in the semis 36-18 games and then had to stop for a rain delay. In the finals, versus SJ Dealey, the format was shortened to 7 point tiebreakers for the 2 doubles matches and 4 singles matches because they only had 1 indoor court. Savannah/Denver started the team off with a 7-5 win and then Ross/Connor finished out the doubles with a 9-7 win! Denver started us in singles with a 7-2 win, Savannah lost a tough breaker 4-7 and Ross finished it off with a 7-2 win to take first place! Jack did not have to play the 4th singles match because the team already won. Coach Carrie said, “The team had a lot of fun this weekend together and they handled the pressure of the final match so well.”
ATA had 2 more teams at the JTT State tournament we had our 10u green ball team (Luke Riezebeek, Clark White, Blake Tollen and Jacob Golden) they placed 5th in their draw! They played some tough teams and played well. Then, we also had our 12u Advanced team (Keana Moon, Jordan Phillips, Jake Riezebeek, Aiden Canada, and James Cockrell). The 12u team ended up bumping up and playing in the 14u advanced draw. They had a lot of stronger and older teams in their draw but stepped up and played great to place 5th! The teams had a ton of fun at the player party on Saturday night.