Local Tennis Players Have Eyes On State Tournament

Seven Greenfield Hustlin’ Hawks and the pair of Whitnall Falcons will have a much tougher task at today’s WIAA sectionals.

The Hawks will host their own sectional at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Perennial powers such as Whitefish Bay, Nicolet and Marquette will be on hand and heavily favored to claim most, if not all, of the automatic qualifying state berths.

In first-round action, Greenfield’s Connor Lewandowski (16-7) will face Whitefish Bay’s Ben Foran (18-4), Adal Chohan (17-5) will take on Bay’s Wentong Zhang (13-4) and Peter Eidsmoe (19-5) will meet Bay’s Matt Kavanagh (21-1) at second, third and fourth singles.

The Hawks’ first doubles team of Patrick Stemo and Austin Jacobsen (13-8) meets Nicolet’s Richark Kim and Trevor Katzban (16-3) and Greenfield’s second doubles team of Jordan Tian and Zach Stelse (11-10) takes on Nicolet’s David Winston and Jon Lopez (14-1).

At the Greendale Sectional at 9 a.m. Thursday, Whitnall’s Alex and Andrew Dundas will be vying for state berths against players from tennis powers such as Brookfield Central, Brookfield East, Greendale and Franklin.

Alex Dundas (11-6) will have a first-round match with Brookfield East’s Ben Klein (10-8) and Andrew Dundas (13-2) will face Brookfield East’s Tim Corwin (18-0).

The top four flight finishers at first singles and doubles and the top finisher at second singles and doubles automatically advance to state. A selection committee also selects a number of special qualifiers for the state tournament.