Boys tennis team finishes season 4-2
November 28, 2018
After months of serves, strokes and backhands, the 2018 boys tennis team rounds out the season with four wins and two losses.
“It was a good season,” varsity tennis coach Gary Ballard said. “We were competitive against our rivals. The team had 4 three set matches against Holly and only won one.”
The Fenton boys tennis team ended third in the metro but fell short of making it to regionals.
On Oct 9, during the varsity tennis boys’ practice, junior Trevor Bloss serves the ball back to his coach. They wrapped up their season last night.
“My personal season was pretty good,” senior Ethan Gutzeit said. “I played two doubles and we started off really well with a couple first places at tournaments but after that it kind of went down hill. Our goals were to go to states and win first in Metros but unfortunately we did not meet either of them.”
Throughout the season, the team welcomed exchange student, Tymek Barcinski. Playing table tennis in home country of Poland, Barcinski says he enjoyed every single minute of being on the tennis team this year.
“I played second singles in the beginning but then I was moved to first doubles and first doubles,” Barcinski said. “I played much better during metro league me and my partner won silver medals so I was happy with that, but then unfortunately we lost our first match in the regionals meet.”
Losing two seniors and an exchange student, the team looks to the underclassmen to step up for the coming season.
“We start preparing now for next year,” Ballard said. “We are losing two seniors and exchange student but we had strong freshman group that will be better next year. Our summer program has gotten stronger every year which this year’s freshman will play next summer.”
As the team begins to prepare for the next season, those interested should contact varsity coach Gary Ballard at [email protected].