Girls Tennis | My Suburban Life
York’s Caroline Coan, Hinsdale South’s Addy Filipiak and Wheaton Warrenville South and Hinsdale Central doubles teams all advanced to Saturday’s state championship matches with quarterfinal and semifinal wins on Friday at the IHSA state tennis tournament.
York junior Caroline Coan and Hinsdale South sophomore Addy Filipiak both breezed into the quarterfinals of the IHSA state tennis tournament with three wins Thursday, while Hinsdale Central is tied for second in the Class 2A team race.
Images from the IHSA Girls State Tennis Tournament on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.
York senior and Illinois recruit Lizzie Isyanov, who went 29-1 this season and took second place in the Class 2A state singles tournament, is the Suburban Life Player of the Year for girls tennis. Here is her Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.
Paced by Shane Delaney and Clare Lopatka’s successful defense of their doubles championship, Benet's tennis team won the Class 1A state title on Saturday. Meanwhile Jessica Kovalcik of Plainfield North beat York’s Lizzie Isyanov to repeat as Class 2A singles champion.
Glenbard West senior and William & Mary-bound Mira Kernagis struck her way to a program-best feat on Saturday, finishing third in the 2A singles draw.
Freshman Riley Lepsi won the singles title to help Wheaton Warrenville South to the Class 2A Downers Grove South Sectional title on Saturday.
Led by freshman phenom Riley Lepsi, Wheaton Warrenville South won the DuKane Conference tennis title in a narrow win over Wheaton North in a jam-packed meet that finished on Saturday.
Fenwick sophomore Lily Brecknock, in her first year of playing high school tennis, won the Class 1A state singles championship in helping lead the Friars to the Class 1A team title and the program's first state trophy. She is the Suburban Life girls tennis Player of the Year.
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