All 11 local state girls tennis qualifiers lost in the rain-delayed opening round Thursday, in both Class 1A and 2A, although three qualifiers won their opening set before losing the second set as well as a super-tiebreaker for the third set to drop into the consolation round.

Guilford players went 0-4 in the first round, while Auburn and Rockford Lutheran qualifiers went 0-2. Hononegah, Belvidere North and Boylan each qualified one entry for state.

Boylan’s 1A sectional doubles champions came closest to taking their opening match. Elizabeth Fitzgerald and Isabelle Grisanzio won the first set 6-3 before losing a pair of tie-breakers, 7-5 in the second set and then 10-7 in a super-tiebreaker for the third set to a duo from Mahomet-Seymour. The tourney usually only uses super-tiebreakers instead of a full third set in the back draw, but used them in the main draw this year because of the rain delay.

Lutheran’s Melissa Hillman also won her first set (6-4) before losing a third-set super-tiebreaker 10-6 in 1A singles after a 7-5 setback in the second set. In 2A doubles, Auburn’s Addysen Feng and Rebecca Wang won their first set 6-3 before losing the next two, including 10-8 in the super-tiebreaker.

Auburn junior Avery Trapp, the NIC-10 and sectional champion in singles, won her first consolation match 6-2, 7-5. So did Feng and Wang, who earned No. 9-16 seeds. Also winning in the first consolation round were Lutheran’s Hillman in singles as well as her sister, Megan Hillman, and Katelyn de Guzman in doubles, plus Guilford’s Habiba Kamel in singles.

A few local players did not even get to complete their first consolation match on this rainy first day. Normally, players get through three rounds of consolation play on the opening day of state.

Contact: [email protected], @matttrowbridge or 815-987-1383. Matt Trowbridge has covered sports for the Rockford Register Star for over 30 years, after previous stints in North Dakota, Delaware, Vermont and Iowa City.