{"id":23520,"date":"2025-02-11T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/?post_type=article&#038;p=23520"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:43:33","slug":"tennis-report-22","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/article\/tennis-report-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saturday 8 February 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Firsts Report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Firsts maintained their undefeated season with a dominant 9-0 win over St Joseph&#8217;s College (Joeys). After retaking 1st place, the boys put on a clinical display without dropping a set. Starting the day off strong with some doubles, the boys took a 3-0 lead. The boys all won their singles comfortably, with a special mention to <strong>Josh Cottee<\/strong> for winning on his Firsts debut and to <strong>Josh Powell<\/strong> for only losing two games all day. The boys look to extend a premiership lead against Riverview next week, with their eyes set on an undefeated premiership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oliver Wilcox<\/strong><br>Firsts Captain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seconds Report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Shore Seconds tennis teams had another strong weekend, displaying control and technique to get the upper hand over their opponents. Shore played Joeys away and was able to win 8-1 after a long fight. Starting with the doubles, the number one pair, <strong>Oli De Kock<\/strong> and <strong>Anay Mishra Mall,<\/strong> displayed strong net play to dominate points. The second pair, <strong>Taj Gupta<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Hunter,<\/strong> also won using splendid ground strokes to win in the tie break after being one set all. The last pair, <strong>Ralphie Fowler<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Yu<\/strong> started slowly being down 2-0 in the first set but managed to close out all the remaining games with a serve volley combination. Following the doubles, <strong>Oli De Koch<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Yu<\/strong> started their singles. <strong>Oli<\/strong> lost his first set in an eye-catching set 7-5 but, through amazing determination, won the next two sets. <strong>Alex <\/strong>unfortunately lost his game, demonstrating strong serves, but was unable to conquer the opponent. <strong>Anay<\/strong> was exceptional, winning his game 6-0 6-0 again, having not lost a single game in singles in the team. <strong>Taj<\/strong> held down his opponent with strong build-up play, comfortably winning, while <strong>Chris <\/strong>had another exceptional win, 6-0 6-0, demonstrating an impenetrable backhand. Finally, <strong>Ralphie<\/strong> showed exemplary technique to close out the final game of the day, with countless serve winners down the line. The Team is preparing for next week and another big win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alex Yu<\/strong><br>Seconds Caption<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">U16s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Under 16s had an excellent weekend playing Joeys, with the A&#8217;s winning 6-0, the B&#8217;s 5-1, and the C&#8217;s 3-0. In doubles, all pairs achieved victory, with four pairs winning 6-1. In their doubles win, <strong>Isaac Metcalfe<\/strong> and <strong>Noah Gee<\/strong> were forced into a tiebreaker, eventually winning 7-5. In the singles, <strong>Edward Dunnet<\/strong> and <strong>Jack Connor-Brent<\/strong> were victorious 6-1, a result which <strong>Max Scarlett<\/strong>, <strong>Noah Gee<\/strong>, and <strong>Leo Brasic<\/strong>, who made his debut, matched. Most notably, <strong>Loki Lam<\/strong> and <strong>Luca Wescott<\/strong> took home 6-0 victories, displaying their skill and consistency. The D&#8217;s and E&#8217;s played internally this week, training to play Riverview next week, where all teams hope to repeat their excellent results against Joeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benji Loy<\/strong><br>U16s player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>U13s<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ziheng Wang<\/strong> and <strong>Benjamin Pan<\/strong>&nbsp;played very well both in their double and singles games. <strong>Alex Warren <\/strong>and <strong>Henry Brieger<\/strong>&nbsp;were beaten in their singles, but both games had a high amount of quality tennis from both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13B and 13C\u2019s &#8211; Drew on the score sheet, with both teams being evenly matched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13D\u2019s &#8211; <strong>Lachlon Wang<\/strong>, <strong>Jack Hersey<\/strong>, <strong>Koji Takamura<\/strong> and <strong>Harry Stibbard<\/strong> all played their part in a whitewash of the opposition, winning 6-0 Sets and 36-10 games<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr Darren Junee<\/strong><br>U13s Coach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 8 February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[24],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-23520","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/23520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}