2013 Season

A preseason meeting for everyone interested in tryout for JV or Varsity Boys Tennis will be held Tuesday February 26 at 2:20 in room 188.


Tryouts for the 2013 season are expected to begin Monday, March 18, 2013.  Don’t forget that school medical/permission forms must be submitted each season prior to tryouts – see Staples Athletics.

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2012 Season Round-up and Awards

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Team
Regular Season Match Record 17-1 (15-1 FCIAC)
Overall Season Match Record 19-2  (17-2 FCIAC)
FCIAC Runner-up
State LL Runner-up

Graham Hyman (Senior  Co-Captain)
Scholar-Athlete

Steve Thomson (Senior Co-Captain)
All-FCIAC First Team Doubles
Staples Block “S” Sportsmanship

Evan Davis (Senior)
All State (CT) Doubles
State LL Doubles Runner-up
All-FCIAC Second Team Doubles

Jake Hirschberg (Junior)
Staples Block “S” MVP
All-FCIAC First Team Singles

Jack Reardon (Sophomore)
All State (CT) Doubles
State LL Doubles Runner-up
All-FCIAC Second Team Doubles

Zack Levin (Freshman)
All-FCIAC First Team Doubles

2013 Captain-Elects
Jake Hirschberg
Luke Foreman

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State LL Doubles Finals – Photos

Congratulations to Jack Reardon and Evan Davis – State LL Runner-ups!

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State LL Tourney – Recap

Congratulations to the Staples Wreckers Boys Tennis Team:
2012 State LL Championship Team Runner-up
Jack Reardon/Evan Davis – State LL Doubles Runner-ups


Congratulations to Greenwich High who won the team championship as well as the singles championship – Tyler Kratky and congratulations to Miles Singer and Brandon Pomerance who won the doubles championship.

Until the quarterfinals on Tuesday, 6/5/2012, matches were played in West Hartford at Hall High School(HH) and St. Joe’s College (SJ). Quarterfinal and Semifinals matches were played indoors and outdoors at Yale. Finals were played on 6/7/2012 outdoors at Conard High, West Hartford.

Seeded players are noted with #.

For complete brackets click here to link to CIAC website.

Singles
1st Round (Played Thurs 5/31 unless noted):
Josh Moskovitz defeated Kamil Budnik, New Britain 6-0, 6-0
Graham Hyman #12 defeated Nick Morelli, Westhill 6-3, 6-0
Jake Hirschberg #3 defeated Wilhad Reuter, Ridgefield 6-2, 6-0
Connor Mitnick  defeated Will Donahue, Simsbury (at SJ) 6-4,6-3
2nd Round (Played Thurs 5/31 unless noted):
Arnauld Valentin #9, Ridgefield defeated Josh Moskovitz 6-0,6-1
Austin Dubois, Simsbury defeated Graham Hyman #12 (at SJ) 6-3, 6-3
Jake Hirschberg #3 defeated Tyler Keane, Glastonbury 6-0, 6-3
Bryan Adams #2, Cheshire defeated Connor Mitnick 6-0, 6-0 (Sun.)
3rd Round (Played Sunday 6/3):
Jake Hirschberg #3 defeated Zach Ely #19, Brien McMahon (Norwalk) 6-0, 6-1
Quarterfinal Round (Monday, 6/4):
Jason Seidman #5, Amity defeated Jake Hirschberg #3 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-0

Doubles
1st Round (Played Thurs 5/31):
Baxter Stein/Jason Chaskin def. Devin Hickman/Abdul Zacharah, West Haven 6-0, 6-0
Evan Davis/Jack Reardon #9 def. Dang Vo Tran/Kenny Wen, NFA 6-0, 6-1
Zack Levin/Steve Thomson #2 BYE
2nd Round (Played Thurs 5/31):
Baxter Stein/Jason Chaskin def.  Colin Kirkland/Omesh Kamat #13, Simsbury 6-1, 6-1
Evan Davis/Jack Reardon #9 defeated Jason Rothberg/Nick Sabatelli, Amity 6-1, 6-4
Zack Levin/Steve Thomson #2 def.  Charles Glazer/Cole Miranda, Simsbury 6-0, 6-0
3rd Round (Played Sunday 6/3):

Douglas Butturini/Matthew DePrima #4 defeated Ridgefield Stein/Chaskin 6-0, 6-2
Davis/Reardon #9  defeated John Boehringer/Shane Sutera#6, Fairfield Prep 6-2, 6-2
Levin/Thomson #2 defeated Gabriel Bettancur/Jason Hippona #16, Amity 6-1, 6-2
Quarterfinal Round (Sunday 6/3- suspended due to rain – finished Tuesday 6/5 at Yale Indoors):
Davis/Reardon #9 defeated Louis McKenzie/Shaw Speer #14, Greenwich 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
Levin/Thomson #2 defeated Will Morris/Bobby Schneider #7, Glastonbury 6-1, 6-3
Semifinal Round (Wednesday 6/6 at Yale):
Davis/Reardon #9 defeated. Levin/Thomson #2 6-3 7-6(8)
Finals (Thursday 6/7 Conard High, West Hartford
Brandon Pomerance/Miles Singer #1, Westhill (Stamford) defeated Evan Davis/Jack Reardon #9, 6-0, 6-0

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In the State LL format, schools can enter players either into the singles tournament or doubles tournament. Based on team and player qualifications, schools can enter up to 7 teams and can choose to enter 5 singles and 2 doubles teams or 4 singles and 3 doubles teams. For the team standings, one point is awarded for each round won however teams with first round byes receive two points if they win their first match. There are 7 rounds of singles (including preliminary round prior to 1st round)  and 6 rounds of doubles.

Class LL final standings are:
1. Greenwich 25;
2. Staples 21;
3. Glastonbury 18;
4. Amity 17;
5. Hall and Ridgefield, 13;
6. Cheshire and Westhill, 11.

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State LL Doubles Semi-Finals – Photos

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Greenwich tops Staples in FCIAC Championship

Greenwich 4 Staples 1
5/29/2012 at Wilton High School

Singles
1. Tyler Kratky (G) def. Graham Hyman 6-0, 6-0
2. Zach Niklaus (G) def. Josh Moskovitz 6-3, 6-1
3. Blake Niehaus (G) def. Baxter Stein 6-0, 6-0
4. Zack Levin (S) vs. Tatsuya Tasaki (G) DNF (Staples won first set 6-3)
5. Ari Cepelewicz (G) vs. Connor Mitnick (S) DNF (Greenwich won first set 6-4)
Doubles
1. Jake Hirschberg/Steve Thomson (S) def. Chris Salisbury/Mike Grund 6-2, 6-2
2. Shaw Speer/Louis McKenzie (G) def. Evan Davis/Jack Reardon 6-4, 6-2.
Match order of finish: 1S,1D,2S,3S,2D
FCIAC Final Records: Greenwich 19-0; Staples 17-2.

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Next Matches:
Thurs, May 31, 8:30am – CIAC State LL Preliminary Round and First Round at Hall, West Hartford

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Staples advances to FCIAC Final

Staples 4 Ridgefield 0
5/24/2012 at Staples

Recap – by contributing writer Luke Foreman
Just like the regular season, both Ridgefield and Staples came to the courts knowing that this match could go either way.  And just like the regular season, Staples emerged on top.  Staples Boys Tennis defeated Ridgefield by a score of 4-0 in a highly anticipated FCIAC semifinal that left many fans of both teams with damaged vocal chords. The Wreckers raised their division record to 17-1 on the year, while the Tigers dropped to 15-3.

First off the court was the Staples tandem of Steve Thomson and Zack Levin, who remained undefeated for the season by knocking off Ridgefield’s Matt DePrima and Doug Butturini in a very energetic match at #1 doubles, 6-3, 6-3.  Graham Hyman of Staples then avenged his regular season loss against Ridgefield’s Jordan Kuchta at #2 singles, beating him 6-0, 6-2 to widen the Wreckers’ lead.  The #4 singles matched concluded soon after, as Staples’ Connor Mitnick defeated Ridgefield’s Tommy Knortz, 6-1, 6-4, to put Staples one match away from reaching their 3rd straight FCIAC final, and their 8th in 10 years.  With Staples ahead in the other four closely contested matches, Baxter Stein avoided any prolonged drama holding off Hans Reuter of Ridgefield, 6-1, 7-5, at #5 singles to clinch the Staples’ victory prompting the Wreckers to rush the court in celebration.

While Ridgefield prepares for States, Staples faces off against undefeated Greenwich in the FCIAC final on Tuesday, May 29th. Greenwich has won 9 out of the last 10 FCIAC championships.  Last season the undefeated Wreckers were knocked off by Greenwich in the FCIAC finals but then regrouped to edge Greenwich by 1 point in the State LL finals.

Singles
1.  Jake Hirschberg (S) vs. Arnaud Valentin (R)  DNF (did not finish – Staples won first set 7-6)
2.  Graham Hyman (S) def. Jordan Kutcha (R)  6-0,6-2
3.  Josh Moskovitz (S) vs. Zach Passman (R)  DNF (Staples won first set 7-6)
4.  Connor Mitnick (S) def.  Tommy Knortz (R)  6-1,6-4
5.  Baxter Stein (S) def. Hans Rueter (R)  6-1,7-5
Doubles
1.  Steve Thomson / Zack Levin (S) def. Matt DePrima / Doug Butturini (R)  6-3,6-3
2.  Evan Davis / Jack Reardon (S) vs. Pat Sheehan-Delany / Kellor Mosse (R)  DNF
Match Order of Finish: 1D, 2S, 4S, 5S (clinching match)
[Tournament Matches end once first team wins 4 Matches.]

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Next Matches:
Tues, May 29 – FCIAC finals at Wilton:
17-1 (19-1 overall) #2 Staples vs Undefeated 18-0 #1 Greenwich (who swept Westhill in Semis – Click here for news link )
Greenwich has captured nine of the last 10 FCIAC boys tennis titles. Staples has been FCIAC runner-up six times since 2003.

Thurs, May 31, 8:30am – CIAC State LL Preliminary Round and First Round at Hall, West Hartford

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JV Tennis Completes Undefeated Season

Congratulations to Coach Kate Levitt and the boys JV Tennis Team:

Front Row, left to right: Max Berger ’15, Jason Blankfein ’15, Brian Saunders ’14, Coach Levitt, Corey Werner ’13, Jake Reiner ’14 and Liam Smith ’13
Back Row, left to right: Griffin Haymes ’15, Jason Hoving ’13, Jackson Ullmann ’14, Mrinal Kumar ’14, Alex Karol ’13, Will Horne ’13, Matt Levantin ’13, Alec Maki ’13, Charles Sonenclar ’14 and Jared Eisenberg ’13
Missing from Picture: Sterling Price ’14

JV 2012 Record 9-0

Staples Vs. Ridgefield – W 10-0
Staples Vs. Ludlowe – W 10-0
Staples Vs. Wilton – W 9-0
Staples Vs. Warde – W 6-1
Staples Vs. Greenwich – W 5-4
Staples Vs. Ludlowe – W 10-0
Staples Vs. Ridgefield – W 5-0
Staples Vs. Greenwich – W 9-0
Staples Vs.  Darien – W 8-2

For more details see JV>JV Results 2012

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FCIAC Tournament – Update

FCIAC Tournament:

Quarterfinals on Monday
#1 Greenwich hosts #8 Warde – Wed: Greenwich Advances 4-0 click here for new link
#2 Staples hosts #7 Ludlowe – Tues: Staples Advances 4-0
#3 Ridgefield hosts #6 Darien – Mon: Ridgefield Advances 4-0 click here for news link
#4 New Canaan host #5 Westhill – Wed: Westhill Advances 4-3 click here for scores

Semis on (better seed hosts)
#1 Greenwich vs. # 5 Westhill – Thurs: Greenwich Advances 4-0 Click here for news link
#2 Staples vs. #3 Ridgefield – Thurs: Staples Advances 4-0 news links here and here

Update:
Finals Tuesday, 5/29 – #1 Greenwich vs. #2 Staples

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Staples advances to Semis

Staples 4 Ludlowe 0
5/22/2012 – Played at Solaris (Stamford Indoors)

Singles
1.  Jake Hirschberg (S) vs. Jack Meyer (F)  Did Not Finish (DNF)
2.  Graham Hyman (S) def. James Reiss (F)  6-2,6-1
3.  Josh Moskovitz (S) def. Alex Slobin (F)  6-1,6-1
4.  Zack Levin (S) def. Robbie Karson (F)  6-0,6-1
Doubles
1.  Steve Thomson / Baxter Stein (S) def. John Colavito / Sam Flicker (F)  6-0,6-4
Match Order of Finish: 4S, 1D, 3S, 2S (clinching match)
[Tournament Matches end once first team wins 4 Matches.]

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Staples will face #3 Ridgefield in FCIAC Tournament Semis next on Thursday.
Winner will play in Finals on Tuesday.

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