by Mikail Cetiner

The boys’ tennis season is coming to an end, and that only means one thing — sectional is close.

The Jeff tennis team is really excited and nervous because for most of them, this is their first time playing in a sectional.

According to singles 1 senior William Brunette, “It is very exciting, but also very stressful to play sectionals.”

The tennis team works hard and takes the practice really seriously. “We work on a lot of basic strategies to prepare for sectionals; the main focus is playing with energy and focus and staying present during matches that can often be very intense,” head coach Jerid Inman said.

Even though the practice is hard and intense, many tennis players decide to stay after practice, and one of them is junior Alex Nef.

“I stay after practice to work on my weak points so I can be ready for Sectionals.”  

“We have a lot of new varsity players this year,” coach Inman said, “so we need to practice more intensely so the varsity players can learn how to play under a lot of pressure.”

Sectionals also have a side effect for the J.V players, “Sectionals affect J.V really much because we won’t have any matches since sectionals only is for varsity,” junior J.V player Ian Hoyer said.

According to senior J.V player Micah Cabell, “J.V should be taken more seriously because most of them are the future of the varsity team.”

“Even though we have no matches we will still practice and play against each other for next year,” J.V coach Clint Fackler said.

Sectional begins Tuesday, Sept. 30.