High School Tennis: Apaches Dominate Spartans

The girls’ tennis team was clearly the favorite entering its nonleague match at La Canada High.

But the visiting Apaches dominated the Spartans, winning 14-2. The final two singles sets were not played upon mutual agreement of the two coaches.

"We were in the semifinals last year, and we have six girls returning so we have a lot of experience,” Arcadia coach Jerry Dohling said. “We have solid singles.”

Arcadia (8-0), ranked No.4 in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 poll won five of the seven singles sets contested by 6-0 scores.

No. 1 player Francis Dean defeated La Canada No. 1 Sydney Fishchel and Spartan No. 2 player Sharon Kim by 6-0 scores. Arcadia’s Jessica Chow took Dean’s spot for the third and final set and she defeated La Canada substitute Suma Gudipati 6-0.

Arcadia No. 2 player Nadia Pacheco Amaro did not play Fischel as that set was not disputed.

Pacheco Amaro defeated Kim 6-1 and La Canada No. 3 Alison Chang 6-0.

Arcadia No. 3 Elizabeth Lieu outlasted Fischel 7-6(7-5). Lieu did not play Kim and defeated Chang 6-0.

In doubles, La Canada (3-5) pulled off an upset as its No.1 team of Linnea Frazier and Sawa Keymeulen defeated Arcadia’s previously unbeaten No. 2 team of Ashley Gao and Shana Mofarrah 7-6(7-4).
Arcadia’s No. 1 team of Annie Tung and Caroline Young defeated Frazier and Keymeulen 6-0. Tung and Young defeated the No. 2 team of Emily Swanson and Lynn Gilmour 6-0 and La Canada’s No. 3 team of Serena Zheng and Rachel Wons 6-4.

Gao and Mofarrah defeated Swanson and Gilmour 6-3 and Zheng and Wons 6-0.

Arcadia’s No. 3 team of Christine Gao and Janice Kim won 6-3 over Frazier and Keymeulen and 6-4 over Zheng and Wons. They were substituted by Tiffany Hsieh and Firdaus Jahangir, who fell to 6-2 to Swanson and Gilmour.