Stefan Menichella
University
Menichella swept each of his five sets while helping the Trojans win their CIF-SS semifinal and championship matches. The Pepperdine-bound senior capped the Trojans' title by winning six straight games to beat Corona d... Full story
Stefan Doehler
Foothill High School
Doehler led the way as the Knights ascended from a wild-card team to CIF-SS Division 2 quarterfinalists. Over a four-day span, the junior went 9-0 at No. 1 singles in team victories over Fullerton, Whitney of C... Full story
Teague Hamilton
Laguna Beach High School
The UC Santa Barbara-bound senior claimed his second straight Orange Coast League singles title by beating teammate Morgan Lebby, 6-1, 6-0, on Thursday. Hamilton was also a quarterfinalist in the recent Oj... Full story
Gage Brymer
University High School
The UCLA-bound senior claimed his third consecutive high school singles title at the Ojai Tennis Tournament on Saturday. He is just the third high school player to three-peat at Ojai and the first since Bobby Rig... Full story
Stefan Doehler
Foothill High School
The Knights' top player continued his dominant season by sweeping each of his six sets in crucial team wins over Villa Park and El Dorado last week. The junior team captain entered this week's matches 38-0 on t... Full story
Gage Brymer
University
The reigning county player of the year added another impressive win to his resume Sunday, winning the boys 18s division singles in the prestigious Easter Bowl ITF Tennis Championships in Rancho Mirage. The UCLA-bound senior ... Full story
Alec Adamson
Corona del Mar High School
The UC Davis bound senior won each of his nine matches in team wins over Palm Desert, Dana Hills and Santa Barbara last week. The Sea Kings' No. 1 singles player enters today's match at Beckman with a 34-3 ... Full story
Jayson Amos
El Toro High School
The Oregon-bound senior notched victories over Chase Masciorini and Luke Mountain, the No. 1 singles players from Dana Hills and Tesoro, respectively, while going 6-0 for the week. Amos, the Chargers’ top pla... Full story
John Lieu
Fountain Valley High School
The Barons’ No. 1 singles player won handily in each of his six sets in team victories over No. 8 San Clemente and Huntington Beach. The junior improved his season record to 28-2 and is a big reason Fou... Full story
Kenny Gea
Irvine High School
Tennis
GPA: 4.29
The No. 1 singles player for the Vaqueros, Gea is also one of the school’s top academic performers. He is currently taking AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, AP Government and AP English Lit... Full story
Drew Dawson
University
One of the county’s top players, Dawson won each of the four singles matches and three doubles matches he competed in during this past weekend’s National All-American Tournament in Newport Beach. The junior earne... Full story
Alec Adamson
Corona del Mar High School
The Sea Kings’ No. 1 singles player improved his 2013 record in dual matches to 12-0 in Corona del Mar’s victories over Peninsula of Rolling Hills Estates and Palos Verdes last week. The senior, w... Full story
Stefan Doehler
Foothill High School
The Knights’ sensational sophomore continued his remarkable run through the Orange County boys tennis circuit with victories over Orange Lutheran’s Blaine Mengert (6-1, 6-1) and University’s Ste... Full story
Robbe Simon
Sage Hill
The Stanford-bound senior went 9-0 – including seven 6-0 sets -- in three CIF-SS Division 3 matches as the Lightning morphed from wild-card hopefuls to quarterfinalists.
With sweeps over J.W. North, Los Osos and Kennedy... Full story
Jonathan Hammel
Valencia
On Friday, the UC Irvine-bound senior put the finishing touch on a 35-1 regular season by claiming his fourth-straight Empire League singles title.
A big reason why the Tigers enter the postseason as the top-ranked team in... Full story
Gage Brymer
University
Not very often does a three-match singles sweep of No. 2 Corona del Mar serve as a footnote to a player’s week, but when that particular week ends with an Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament singles championship the headline ... Full story
Tate Nelson
Tesoro
The only constant in coach Tim DiLeo’s daily lineup, Nelson led the ninth-ranked Titans to the Sea View League title with a three-match doubles sweep in Tesoro’s 10-8 victory over El Toro on Wednesday.
Last week, th... Full story
Player of the Week (4-16-12)
Jack Ventura-Cruess, El Dorado
During a depleted Spring Break week of tennis, Ventura-Cruess paced ninth-ranked El Dorado’s 14-4 victory over Canyon on Thursday with three 6-0 sets. As of Monday, the senior owns a... Full story
Carson Williams
Corona del Mar High School
As part of Corona del Mar’s three-man revolving door at No. 2 and No. 3 singles, Williams took over the No. 2 duties last week and went 6-0 in two matches with impressive victories over a pair of her... Full story
Drew Dawson
University
On a team loaded with talented tennis players, Dawson – an All-County and CIF champion doubles player last year – has quite possibly been the Trojans’ most consistent and reliable singles player over the las... Full story
Julian Ruffin
Northwood
The Timberwolves’ top singles player went 7-0 last week, including an impressive three-match sweep (6-2, 6-2, 6-3) of No. 2 Corona del Mar on Tuesday, to up his record to a flawless 18-0 on the season.
After falling t... Full story
Robbe Simon
Sage Hill
During a Corona del Mar All-American Tournament full of noteworthy and impressive performances, Simon’s eight-match body of work stands alone for a few reasons.
Of the 12 matches Sage Hill -- the smallest school in the ... Full story
O.C. Player of the Week
Jamie Zillman, Woodbridge
Zillman won eight of nine matches last week -- falling only to Mater Dei's Justin Agbayani in a tiebreaker on Thursday -- as the Warriors went 3-0 against Aliso Niguel (16-2), Villa Park (15-3) an... Full story
Patrick Lipscomb
Woodbridge
In his final year in high school, Lipscomb has helped Woodbridge excel in the ultra-competitive Pacific Coast League, and in the first two rounds of the CIF-SS Division 1 Tennis Tournament, Lipscomb helped the Warrio... Full story