It is finally state tournament time on the girls side! The boys season is officially over and this is the last week of high school tennis for the girls with the individual state tournament taking place Wednesday and Thursday while the team tournament finishes up on Saturday. Lots of great opportunities lie ahead for all qualifiers in the coming days to cement their name in Iowa HS Tennis history. Excited to continue to follow along as the season approaches its close for the 2021 chapter.
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We just had a tremendous weekend of Boys State Tennis on the singles and doubles side a few days ago and now the tide turns to team play after the Memorial Day holiday. First of all, I am hoping for nice weather and outdoor play as that tremendously prevents the day from being incredibly long, but also it's great to be outside to enjoy some tennis right? Only 4 teams remain in both the 2A and 1A brackets vying for a state championship. I will be doing team bracket live results showing who advances and who moves to the 3rd place matches, but I will also be doing my best to provide updates on team scores for all the meets throughout the day!
It is finally state tournament time, what we have been waiting for since the end of the 2019 season! I think I can speak on behalf of everyone involved in high school tennis this year that we are all just so happy and grateful that a season was able to take place and be held this spring. For the most part, things have been pretty normal besides the extra Covid precautions at meets. We have had our usual annoying and bad weather filled with rain and wind, so the normal. The forecast for Friday/Saturday is about a typical as it gets for the state tournament. One of the days seems to have to be played inside, or so it seems the last decade. Regardless, this is the best time of the year for Iowa high school tennis!
The regular season has just wrapped up and postseason play is in full swing. Boys tennis had districts and preliminary substate last week and over the weekend but now it's the girls turn to get going. Girls team regional play has gotten started over the last weekend and few days and will get back to it on Saturday May 22. Right now, we turn to individual regional play that is set to take place tomorrow at eight host sites across the state. Individual regionals strictly qualify singles players and doubles teams to the state tournament and have no implications on team play such as the boys side. There seems to be a lot of rain in the forecast this week, so I am hoping with you all that play can get through fairly smoothly and we have some great tennis all over!
Girls Team State Brackets 1A Team 2A Team Girls Individual State Brackets 1A Singles 1A Doubles 2A Singles 2A Doubles Boys Individual State Brackets 2A Singles Bracket 2A Doubles Bracket 1A Singles Bracket 1A Doubles Bracket Boys Team Brackets 2A Team Bracket 1A Team Bracket Girls Team Brackets *(To view brackets, click on a region. Brackets will update immediately after scores are posted) 2A Team Bracket 1A Team Bracket Girls Individual Regionals 1A Live Brackets 2A Live Brackets Boys Districts 1A Live Brackets 2A Live Brackets (Ames, Valley, Bettendorf) 2A Live Brackets (Ankeny, Johnston, IC West, North Scott, CR Prairie)
Players of the Week 1A Girls: Mira Keeran (Cedar Falls) Keeran is currently undefeated in singles and doubles and has not dropped a set yet this season. Keeran most recently posted wins against Freshman phenom Abbie Peterson of Ankeny Centennial and former doubles state champion Allison Szalay of Dowling in the Valley invite this past week. In addition to a first place finish at number one singles at the Valley invite, Keeran helped Cedar Falls claim the team title as well.
Class 1A RK TEAM PTS REC LW 1 CR Xavier (8) 102 12-2 1 2 Waterloo Columbus (3) 101 6-0 2 3 Red Oak 65 10-0 4 4 Fairfield 63 11-0 3 5 Pella Christian 41 8-1 6 6 Spirit Lake Okoboji 39 8-1 8 7 Assumption 37 8-3 7 8 Pella 35 7-2 5 9 Union 24 8-0 10 10 Decorah 21 6-1 NR Others receiving votes: Davis County 16, Wahlert 13, Waverly Shell-Rock 10, Kuemper Catholic 7, Aplington-Parkersburg 5, St. Albert 1 Voted in this poll: Aplington-Parkersburg, CR Xavier, Decorah, Grinnell, Newton, Pella, Spirit Lake, Union, Waverly Shell-Rock Class 2A RK TEAM PTS REC LW 1 IC West (4) 96 15-0 1 2 Dowling Catholic (4) 95 8-0 2 3 Cedar Falls (2) 93 13-1 3 4 Ankeny Centennial (1) 66 7-0 4 5 WDM Valley 57 8-1 5 6 CR Washington (1) 40 10-3 6 7 Clinton 37 9-1 8 8 Johnston 29 7-2 7 9 Pleasant Valley 22 7-1 9 10 Waukee 21 5-4 10 Others receiving votes: Urbandale 15, Ames 11, CR Kennedy 9, Bettendorf 4 Voted in this poll: Ankeny, Cedar Falls, CR Kennedy, CR Prairie, Clinton, Dubuque Senior, Iowa City West, John
Class 1A RK TEAM PTS REC LW 1 CR Xavier (7) 83 11-1 1 2 Waterloo Columbus (2) 81 5-0 2 3 Fairfield 63 9-0 3 4 Red Oak 59 9-0 4 5 Pella 38 6-1 5 6 Pella Christian 35 5-1 6 7 Assumption 24 7-1 8 8 Spirit Lake Okoboji 23 6-1 NR 9 Aplington-Parkersburg 19 7-1 NR 10 Union 14 7-0 NR Others receiving votes: Decorah 12, Wahlert 9, Waverly Shell-Rock 8, Davis County 4, Kuemper Catholic 2, Mount Vernon 1, St. Albert 1, Independence 1 Voted in this poll: Aplington-Parkersburg, CR Xavier, Decorah, Grinnell, Newton, Pella, Spirit Lake, Union, Waverly Shell-Rock Class 2A RK TEAM PTS REC LW 1 IC West (5) 72 13-0 1 2 Dowling Catholic (2) 69 7-0 2 3 Cedar Falls 65 12-1 4 4 Ankeny Centennial (1) 61 6-0 4 5 WDM Valley 49 6-1 5 6 CR Washington (1) 42 9-3 8 7 Johnston 34 6-1 9 8 Clinton 25 7-1 10 9 Pleasant Valley 22 6-1 7 10 Waukee 17 3-4 6 Others receiving votes: Ames 15, Urbandale 10, Dbq Hempstead 8, CR Kennedy 6, Indianola 1, Bettendorf 1 Voted in this poll: Ankeny, Cedar Falls, CR Kennedy, CR Pr