Indian Hill, Mason win state team tennis championships


After a strong performance in the individual state tournaments, Cincinnati swept the state championships Saturday at the high school team tennis tournaments sponsored by the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association.

The tournaments took place in Wooster following the conclusion of the Ohio High School Athletic Association singles and doubles tournaments on Friday. The team tournament is not an OHSAA-sanctioned championship.

Indian Hill beat Columbus Academy 3-0 in the Division II final at Aspen Racquet Club. Earlier in the day, Mason beat Upper Arlington 3-0 in the Division I final. Mason won its seventh consecutive title.

Pratyusha Chauduri (left) and Emma Wagner after winning the OHSAA Division I girls doubles tennis championship. The pair won 6-0, 6-1 in their final match of the tournament on Oct. 20, 2023 at the Aspen Racquet Club, Wooster, Ohio.

Mason’s championship path

In the DI final at first singles, Addison Cassidy won 6-2, 6-0.

Ayumi Kashikwakura won in third singles, 6-0, 6-1.

Pratyusha Chaudhuri and Chloe Zhang won at first doubles, 6-0, 6-2.

The day before, Chaudhuri won the state doubles championship in the OHSAA individual tournament with Emma Wagner.

Cassidy qualified for state in singles and lost in the first round.

Mason returns its entire state lineup next season as none of them were seniors.

Indian Hill’s championship path

In the championship match, sophomore Sophia Thompson won in second singles, 6-0, 6-1.

Caroline Brown won 6-0, 6-1 at third singles.

At second doubles, Lexi Larsen and McKenzie Stoddard won 6-3, 6-1.

Sophia Thompson, a sophomore at Indian Hill, placed second at the OHSAA girls tennis Division II State Championship. Friday, Oct. 20, 2023

Brooke Arington played first singles in the finals. She had won her first set in the championship match, which halted when the Braves won their third match to clinch the title.

Cassie Larsen and Lillian Dwyer played first doubles.

In the semis, the Larsen sisters played together and won 7-5, 6-0, while Thompson and Brown completed their matches with identical 6-0, 6-0 wins.

In the OHSAA individual singles and doubles tournaments, Thompson was Division II state singles runner-up for the second-straight year, losing to Bexley’s Amiya Bowles for the second year in a row in the finals, 6-1, 6-2.

Arington and Dwyer played doubles together and lost in a tight three-set match in the state finals. The Larsen sisters paired up at state and lost in the first round in the state tourney.

Arington and Dwyer are seniors, as is Lexi Larsen.


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