A team from Mason High School won the double competition at the state tennis tournament for the third straight year.
Competitors from Mason and Indian Hill will try for the team state title on Oct. 18.
The state tennis tournament returned to Cincinnati and local athletes made the most of home court, as Mason won the OHSAA Division I state doubles championship.
The Mason Comets captured the doubles state title for the third straight year in the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division I state tournament on Oct. 17 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
Mason senior Adriana Moreno and junior Saanvi Reddy claimed their first doubles championship, the third in a row for the Comets. Moreno and Reddy defeated teammates and defending back-to-back state champions Emma Wagner and Pratyusha Chaudhuri to be crowned champions.
It was a record setting state tournament showing for Mason in the doubles category, as the Comets became the first team in OHSAA history to send three doubles teams to the state semifinal.
Division I singles
Mason senior Addison Cassidy, last year’s state champion, faced a rematch of last year’s state final against Olentangy Berlin’s Soleil Cordell in the semifinals. After Cassidy won the first set, momentum shifted and Cordell was able to secure the 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 victory.
Cordell, a junior, wound up taking home first place as she defeated Hudson sophomore Emma Liu. Cassidy would withdraw from the third place match to rest for the Oct. 18 OTCA team tournament, taking home fourth place.
Renee Harper, a sophomore from Oak Hills, won her first round match 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. Harper fell in the second round to the eventual-champion Cordell 6-1, 6-1.
Ursuline Academy’s Libby Goedde, a senior, was bested in the first round by state runner-up Liu 7-5, 6-1.
Division I doubles
With all four doubles semifinalists in Division I coming from Cincinnati, the city was guaranteed at least one state title. Mason sent three teams, while Sycamore added another.
In a rematch of the sectional and district finals which the doubles teams split, junior Saanvi Reddy and senior Adriana Moreno defeated fellow Mason Comets Pratyusha Chaudhuri and Emma Wagner 6-1, 6-4 in the state title match.
It can be tough facing off against friends and teammates, but Moreno and Reddy emphasized their ability to focus on the competition.