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It was a cold and blustery in Solano County last Wednesday when the mighty CIF SJS Division 4 Mountain House High boys tennis team, winner of last year's D4 sectional title, traveled north to Fairfield to take on the powerful Mustangs of D3 Rodriguez High in a non-league match.
The Rodriguez Mustangs, led by one of the top players in the section, senior Evan Wadsworth, were a semi-final team in last year's D2 sectional playoffs.
The match started promptly around 3 p.m. and all six singles matches were competitive at the start.
Mountain House scored the first win when Rodriguez No. 6 Justin Wei forfeited to Mustangs’ Dhruv Jena down 1-6, 0-2 due to a leg injury. The Mustangs secured their second win when Western Athletic Conference (WAC) singles champion Eidan Mercado defeated a feisty Rodriguez freshman Joshua Williams 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3.
Rodriguez scored their first win when Wadsworth defeated sophomore Aadi Rajan at No. 1 singles 6-1, 6-2. The next point went to Mountain House when senior Pranav Sundar won his match 7-5, 6-0 at No. 4 singles, overcoming some early jitters.
Junior Zuhair Mughal played a very tough opponent at No. 5 singles, losing 4-6, 5-7 despite an early lead in the second set.
The final singles match between Mustangs’ No. 2 Daniel Zhang and Rodriguez’s Danton Hsueh was an epic match which Zhang won 6-4, 6-3 (and was awarded player of the match by head coach Andy Su), giving Mountain House a 4-2 lead after singles.
All three doubles matches were fierce battles and Rodriguez No. 1 drew first blood by beating the Mountain House team of Andy Su Jr. and Charan Battula 6-4, 6-4.
While the Mustangs’ No. 2 team of Aarya Vishnu and Parthiv Algubelli fought hard, they eventually lost 5-7, 4-6. At No. 3, the team of sophomore Nathan Zakariah and freshman Anirudh Baskar won 6-2, 6-3 to give Mountain House the very close 5-4 win.
"I am of course happy with the win against a well-coached team but we are not where we need to be to win the sectional championship again,” Su said. “We have a lot of work to do before the playoffs."
Next up for these Mustangs, the WAC league opener at home against the Patriots of Beyer High on Monday.
Contributed by Andy Su
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