{"id":114855,"date":"2025-09-02T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114855\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:40:11","slug":"douglas-girls-tennis-topples-carson-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114855\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas girls tennis topples Carson in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"story_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PatmontMackenzie_t670.jpeg\" alt=\"Douglas High's Anna Patmont and Naomi Mackenzie pose for a photo after securing a three-set win for the Tiger girls tennis team.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n        Douglas High&#8217;s Anna Patmont and Naomi Mackenzie pose for a photo after securing a three-set win for the Tiger girls tennis team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">The Douglas High School girls tennis team opened their season with a hard-fought 10\u20139 victory over rival Carson in a heated afternoon match that came down to a tiebreaker, August 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">On the singles courts, Kendall Cole, Jasmine Shoemaker, and Prairie Jackson battled for the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">In doubles play, the teams of Anna Patmont and Naomi Mackenzie, Abby Malone and Addy Lester, and Kinsey Briscoe and Emery Christensen rounded out the lineup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">Despite the heat, the Tigers\u2019 doubles squads stayed cool under pressure, sweeping all three sets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">Patmont and Mackenzie set the tone early, serving with confidence and closing rallies with strong net play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">Malone and Lester kept their opponents on the defensive, while Briscoe and Christensen finished with crisp volleys and steady groundstrokes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">&#8220;How proud I am of the girls,&#8221; said Douglas head coach Nikki Andrews. &#8220;They kept fighting despite the heat and the lengthy sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">Carson\u2019s strength showed in singles play, where Shoemaker and Jackson fell in straight sets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">Douglas&#8217; ace Kendall Cole, the Tigers\u2019 No. 2 singles player, refused to fold. After dropping her opening set, Cole dug deep in the tiebreak, mixing in sharp cross-court winners and clutch first serves to secure a comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue';\">At the end of regulation, the overall match was deadlocked at 9\u20139, forcing the outcome into tie-break sets. Cole\u2019s singles win, paired with the three doubles victories, sealed the Tigers\u2019 10\u20139 triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Douglas High&#8217;s Anna Patmont and Naomi Mackenzie pose for a photo after securing a three-set win for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-114855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}