The Coppell tennis team (8-11) secured another victory, defeating Dallas Jesuit and Ursuline, 22-5, on Sep. 29 at Coppell Tennis Center.
Coppell girls won four out of five matches in doubles and seven out of nine matches in singles. Boys won three out of four matches in doubles and eight out of nine in singles.
“The overall score doesn’t reflect how competitive the matches were,” Coppell coach Alyssa Noonan said. “Ursuline and Dallas Jesuit have great players, but so do we.”
According to Noonan, one of Coppell’s biggest victories of the night was on the boys singles side, with Coppell senior tennis player Riki Koshimizu defeating Mathias Valenta, one of Jesuit’s top players.
“It was a match that Riki has not historically won, so that was a big thing for us to celebrate,” Noonan said.
One of the team’s weakest areas heading into the beginning of the season was doubles, but now Noonan considers this one of their strengths. The team worked on doubles techniques and strategies to better their performance and create on court chemistry.
“All the pieces are falling in place,” Noonan said, “The team is working together seamlessly at this point in the season.”
The match concluded with a ceremony honoring the 20 senior players on the team. Each was given posters signed by their teammates and swag bags provided by the CHS Tennis Booster Club.
The Coppell tennis team hosts Class 6A Region I bi-district playoffs at Coppell Tennis Center on Tuesday at 3:45 p.m.
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