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The Palo Alto boys’ varsity tennis team beat Gunn Feb. 28 4-3 at home, starting off their league play strong.

The match was intense; everything came down to the last match between Paly’s Blake Smith (‘14) and Gunn’s Jinyan Jiang (’14). Smith won the first set 6-3 and Jiang won the second set 6-3, leaving the fate of the entire match to the last set.

Despite being down 5-3 in the last set, Smith was able to come back and take the win.

“I was thinking I have nothing to lose,” Smith said.  “I just needed to loosen up and play my game, and that’s what I did.”

The other winners for the Vikings were Nicky Hu (‘12), winning two sets 6-0 and 6-1, Austin Leung (‘14), losing the first set 6-4, but came back and won the last two sets 6-2, and lastly, Mason Haverstock (‘13) and Jack Paladin (‘14), winning in two sets 6-4 and 6-2.

The Paly boys (2-0, 1-0) were excited about beating their cross-town rival, Gunn (0-1, 0-1).

“This was our rival, so anytime you can scrape out a win against your rival that’s pretty darn good,” coach Andy Harader said, “Blake came back from being down 5-2 in the third set, so that was remarkable; it was really a good win for us.”

The team hopes to continue its winning streak as they travel to Fresno this weekend to play in a tournament in which they will compete in five matches.

 

 

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Annie Susco, Multimedia Editor
Annie is a senior at Paly and joined The Viking staff last year because she's a fan of Paly sports and journalism. She plays for the varsity basketball team as a shooting guard and was part of the first ever CCS Championship team two years ago season. On the weekends she volunteers at the Palo Alto Animal Shelter with cats that are up for adoption.

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