By Andy Hutchison
GREENWICH–All in all, it was a winning week for the Staples girls tennis team as the Wreckers took two of three matches to improve to 5-1 this spring. The lone setback was a 7-0 defeat to host Greenwich, on Thursday.
On Monday, the Wreckers defeated visiting Stamford 7-0. In singles play Olivia Lazar won 6-0, 6-1, Amelia Berkowitz and Hunter Rossetter both won 6-1, 6-0 and Kayla Stanley came out on top 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles play featured Azita Vazhayil and Rachel Guzman winning 6-0, 6-1, Dylan Lehrer and Devyn Peffer winning 6-1, 6-1 and Abby Bandini and Raleigh Spikin combining for a 6-1, 6-3 triumph.
Against Darien, in a home match on Tuesday, Staples won 6-1. Lazar battled back from a first-set loss to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 at first singles. Adrianna Gavriloiu won 6-3, 6-1 at third singles. Kat Siegner also won 6-3, 6-1 in the fourth spot.
The No. 1 doubles tandem of Aanya Gandhi and Guzman won 6-2, 6-3. No. 2 Isa Alfageme and Vazhayil won 6-2, 6-1. No. 3 Lehrer and Emme Steinberg came back to win 5-7, 6-1, 10-5 (match tiebreaker).
Andy Hutchison
Andy Hutchison has been covering school sports — including Staples athletics — as well as news and feature stories, since the 1990s. He is the sports editor at the Newtown Bee. He writes for the Monroe Sun. He was director of communications and radio color commentator for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (now Islanders) hockey team. He has won numerous writing awards, including regional and national first-place honors.
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