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• FIRST-TEAM SINGLES Ruhi Gulati, jr., Huntley Gulati finished 22-4 for the season, with all four losses coming against Jacobs’ Chloe Siegfort, including the FVC No. 1 singles championship match and the sectional title match. Gulati gave Siegfort her toughest matches, winning a few games off of her in the Fox Valley Conference title match and a dual match two days later. Gulati was Class 2A Cary-Grove Sectional Tournament runner-up to Siegfort and is an All-Area repeat first-team selection.
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Chloe Siegfort, soph., Jacobs Siegfort did not drop a single set the entire season on her way to a second FVC No. 1 singles championship and a Class 2A C-G Sectional title. Siegfort, a sectional runner-up as a freshman, lost only three games in three sectional matches to win the title. She is the Northwest Herald Girls Tennis Player of the Year and a repeat first-team All-Area selection. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Siegfort did not get to see competition outside the FVC or get to go to a state tournament, since it was canceled this season. (Eileen T)
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Savannah Webb, soph., Richmond-Burton Webb’s high school season is a brief one since R-B does not have a team, but she cruised to Kishwaukee River Conference No. 1 singles championship and suffered her only loss in the Class 1A Antioch Sectional title match, to Lakes’ Megan Heuser, last year’s state champion who is headed to Illinois to play next year. Webb was an All-Area second-team pick last year.
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• FIRST-TEAM DOUBLES Michelle Barnvos, sr./Kylie Phommasack, jr., Huntley Barnvos and Phommasack turned in a terrific second season as doubles partners, culminating with a three-set win for the Class 2A C-G Sectional championship against Jacobs’ Lara Santa Ines and Kaya Trumbo, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. They finished with a 24-2 record and are repeat selections for the All-Area first team.
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Lara Santa Ines, soph./Kaya Trumbo, jr., Jacobs Santa Ines and Trumbo repeated as FVC champions in a different manner this season. Santa Ines won No. 3 singles last year, while Trumbo won No. 2. They teamed up at No. 1 doubles this season and won the title, avenging losses to Huntley’s Michelle Barnvos and Kylie Phommasack and C-G’s Kate Larry and Katie Jannusch for that victory.
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Kate Larry, sr./Katie Jannusch, jr., Cary-Grove Trojans coach Therese Youel called these two “a joy to watch” because of their competitive nature. Neither play tennis as their No. 1 sport, but they finished 12-4, with the four losses all coming against Huntley and Jacobs’ teams. Larry and Jannusch even knocked off Jacobs for a victory. They were runners-up at No. 1 doubles in the FVC Tournament and took third in the Class 2A C-G Sectional, which would have sent them to the state tournament.
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Haley Benard, sr./Emma Grindstaff, jr., Crystal Lake Central Benard and Grindstaff finished fourth in No. 1 doubles in the FVC Tournament and also in the Class 2A C-G Sectional. Their only losses came to Huntley, Jacobs and C-G, and they took C-G to three sets in one of their matches. Benard and Grindstaff’s fourth-place sectional finish would have sent them to the state tournament in a normal year. • SECOND-TEAM SINGLES Isha Desai, jr., Jacobs Gracie Cittadino, jr., Johnsburg Elaina Hibbeler, soph., Huntley • SECOND-TEAM DOUBLES Olivia Johnson, jr./Megan Rapisarda, jr., Crystal Lake Central Talia Duffy, sr./Dyllan Cash, jr., Huntley Sam Seibert, sr./Alison Gerhardt, sr., Jacobs Jaden Appelhans, so./Anna Chang, sr., Crystal Lake South • HONORABLE MENTION Sophia Ferru, sr., Woodstock North Annabella Gaffaney, soph., CG Sara Greenwald, sr., Cary-Grove Noelle Haas, so./Ashtyn Martin, jr., Marengo Lilly Johnson, sr., Marengo May Kimura, sr./Karolina Ryzka, jr., Hampshire Kaitlyn Mauch, sr./Maggie Thomas, sr., Woodstock North Ellie McGinnis, sr., Crystal Lake Central Breanna Pollack, jr./Caidyn Sylvester, sr., Prairie Ridge Alessandra Rivera, sr., Huntley Rujul Shah, fr., Dundee-Crown Lizzy Sudbrook, jr., Crystal Lake South Anika Treadway, Woodstock North
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