Menlo News November 02, 2019

Girls’ tennis nets WBAL singles, doubles championships

Ahlstrom near clean sweep; Zhang-Brady win doubles 

Menlo girls’ tennis took the West Bay Athletic League tennis championships when junior Addie Ahltrom won the singles title and the team of sophomores Brynn Brady and Tricia Zhang took the doubles title in an all-Menlo final Saturday.
Ahlstrom defeated teammate Charlotte Makoni,a freshman 6-0, 6-0, then beat Arya Tumuluri of Notre Dame-Belmont 6-0, 6-1 before sweeping Sacred Heart Prep’s Sara Qiuinlan in the final.
In doubles, Brady and Zhang defeated freshmen Natalie Westermann and Elsie Ragatz 6-3, 6-1. Westermann and Ragatz won all three matches in straight sets before meeting their sophomore teammates for the championship. Zhang and Brady held a first-round bye Friday then defeated their opponents from Sacred Heart Prep and Harker for the title.

 

WBAL Individual Championship
Menlo results
Singles
Championship
Addie Ahlstrom (Menlo) d. Quinlan (SHP) 6-0, 6-0

Semifinals
Ahlstrom d. Tirumala (Harker) 6-0, 6-1
Quarterfinals
Quinlan (SHP) d. Charlotte Yao (Menlo) 6-3, 6-0

First round
Yao (Menlo) d. As Tumuluri (Notre Dame-Belmont) 6-3, 6-4.
Sara Quinlan (SHP) d. Evelyn Zhou (Menlo) 6-1, 6-0

Doubles
Championship
Brynn Brady-Tricia Zhang (Menlo) d. Elsie Ragatz-Natalie Westermann (Menlo) 6-3, 6-1

Semifinals
Brady-Zhang d. Hu-Fan (Harker) 6-2, 7-0
Westermann-Ragatz d. Scott-Pasmooji (Castilleja ) 6-4, 3-6 (4)

Quarterfinals
Brady-Zhang d. Sheehan-Lynch (SHP) 6-3, 6-0
Westermann-Ragatz d. Partridge-Cheung (H) 6-4, 6-0

First round
Brady-Zhang bye
Ragatz-Westermann d. Walsh-Tureene (Priory) 6-0, 6-0
Gunadi-Slinger (Castilleja) d. Ellie Hardegree-Sydney Burnett (Menlo) 6-4, 6-4