Boys Tennis

Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice, Midland Dow, Detroit Country Day and Ann Arbor Greenhills concluded the first decade of the 2000s with Lower Peninsula boys tennis championships. They also gave previews of a successful decade the come.

Longtime Armada tennis coach David Fredette has been named one of 23 National Coaches of the Year for 2018-19 by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NHFS) Coaches Association.

Allegan’s championship story began nearly a half-century ago. A longtime coach retires after 45 years building one of the state’s strongest tennis programs, even receiving national recognition for his work spreading love for the game – but he never wo...

This edition of State Champs Sports Network's “Clip of the Week” features Mattawan's Nathaniel Webster sending back a no-look volley on the way to claiming the No. 1 singles title at the Lower Peninsula Division 2 Boys Tennis Finals. 

After chasing an elusive MHSAA Finals tennis championship for years, what would a few more hours waiting matter for the Allegan boys tennis team? With all but the No. 3 singles semifinals and final completed Saturday afternoon at the Lower Peninsula Division 4 Finals a...

Saturday was a perfect day for tennis and almost perfect for Ann Arbor Greenhills. The Gryphons grabbed 39 of 40 points to win the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 3 Boys Tennis Finals at Kalamazoo College’s Stowe Stadium.

Cole Rynbrandt had been there before. He’d seen his older brothers capture individual MHSAA Finals championships. On Saturday, he wanted to experience that achievement for himself.

Tom Pullen was just glad to be in the hunt. The 28-year Ann Arbor Pioneer head coach, who is 75½ years old, had his team in a dead heat with rival Huron for the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 boys tennis title Saturday at the Midland Tennis Center. They were s...

Familiar faces in new places could lead to some substantial shaking up at this weekend’s Lower Peninsula Boys Tennis Finals. Two-time reigning Division 2 champion Okemos is playing in Division 1, and reigning Division 4 champion Ann Arbor Greenhills will take a r...

While striving for his first MHSAA Finals title in one sport, Luke Baylis is looking to be a part of a repeat championship in another. A senior at Clarkston High School, Baylis is head of the powder puff committee for his class, a job that entails collecting money, set...

For years, the St. Clair boys tennis team used the Macomb Area Conference Red schedule as preparation for the postseason and not much else. As by far the smallest school in the MAC’s toughest division, the Saints regularly took their lumps against perennial Divis...

Negaunee won its fourth straight MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 Finals trophy Wednesday, but Marquette's Alec Olivier also left quite a legacy. Olivier finished his high school tennis career with an unblemished 63-0 record and capped it with his fourth UP title at No...

The Westwood and West Iron County boys tennis teams have had some good battles the past few years at the Upper Peninsula Division 2 Finals, with the two squads finishing as the last two standing for the last three years.  That was the case again Wednesday afternoo...

We recently ran across a copy of the 2008 Fall MHSAA Magazine Show produced by FOX Sports Detroit, and each week we’ll “throw back” to a few segments. This week, coming off the 2018 Lower Peninsula Girls Golf and Boys Tennis Finals, we recall the 2008...

There are a lot of emotions winning an MHSAA Finals tennis championship as an underclassmen can produce, but wanting to give up the sport entirely usually is not one of them. But that’s something that was on the mind of Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood tennis...

Winning six of eight flights, Ann Arbor Greenhills took home the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 4 team trophy Saturday at Kalamazoo College, the Gryphons’ first championship in three years but ninth over the last 11. Greenhills clinched the title during the ...

Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood boys tennis coach Steve Herdoiza said his team had conquered challenges all season. But Saturday’s MHSAA Finals was a different one.  The main opponent was time, as weather forced the event to be played much longer than a...

What started with a love of the sport in elementary school grew into a second straight MHSAA Finals championship for members of the Okemos boys tennis team Saturday. Led by a core group of players who began playing tennis together at a young age, Okemos won the Lower P...

Inside or outside, the Bloomfield Hills boys tennis team knows exactly what it takes to win an MHSAA Finals championship. Last year, the Blacks Hawks won on the outdoor courts at the Greater Midland Tennis Center. Saturday, at the same location, the they went back-to-b...

This year’s Lower Peninsula Boys Tennis Finals will again feature a number of contenders we’re used to seeing raise trophies during the season’s closing weekend. Reigning champions Okemos in Division 2 and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood in Divis...