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Stagg Line Amos Alonzo Stagg High School Stockton, CA
Issue Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 Issue: Volume 56 Issue 7 Last Update: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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At-a-glance

Senior Raul Dominguez at the last boys practice before their tournament to qualify for the Tri-City Athletic League championships. - Annamarie Rodriguez
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For senior Raul Dominguez tennis is "just a second sport."

 

Dominguez and many of the tennis players this season are dedicated to soccer and are only playing tennis for the fun of it."We had nothing to do after soccer so we wanted to try something new," said junior Yasmani Bravo.

"At first, we were just having fun, but then we became more serious," Bravo said. But even though they became more serious they didn’t take it as seriously as they did soccer.

"We grew up with soccer so tennis is just for fun," said Senior Carlos Barajas. They described soccer as "a spouse that they’re married to" and tennis as "the girlfriend on the side".

The boys tennis team has not won a single match this season. A reason for this is that the players didn’t take tennis too seriously, but another reason would be their inexperience in playing tennis.

"For not having anyone with over two years of experience in tennis we did pretty well," said Roger Esparza, tennis coach.

The only players with even one year of experience are Dominguez and Senior Alfredo Aguirre. Other than these two the rest of the players are new to the sport. And although they’ve played during their free time they were playing without the knowledge of the rules.

"I started from the basics," Esparza said. "I started from how to keep score, to how to hold the racket."

And with little experience it was hard for them to go against players from other schools that have been playing for years.

But in a proud voice Dominguez said, "They were more experienced and were better than us, but we were able to give them a challenge." He boasted about a sliced return that he did that helped him gain a point in the game.

Even though they have not won any of their matches this season they are fine with it since they had fun playing. But that doesn’t mean that that they’re fine with losing.

"This experience will help them improve for next year and they’ll do much better," said Senior Omar Alvarez. But next year many of the players will be leaving.Seven out of the 11 players on the team are graduating seniors which leave only three juniors and one sophomore left. But this fact doesn’t discourage the players at all.

"Although some of our best players are leaving this year we will still find a way to thrive and prosper for success," said Alvarez.


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