Sisters Hailey Kerker and Taryn Kerker already had completed lots throughout their highschool tennis careers coming into their senior 12 months at Camas.
Hailey Kerker received back-to-back 4A singles state titles earlier than inserting third at state final 12 months.
Taryn Kerker received a state title in doubles with Fiona Zhou in 2023 earlier than the pair had a runner-up end final season.
However to cap their highschool careers, the Kerker sisters wished to do one thing completely different. In order that they paired up as a doubles group.
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“I really wanted to play with my sister because this is our last year,” Hailey Kerker stated. “And I wanted it to be special. Plus, I like playing with her.”
On Friday, the Kerker sisters started the run by means of the postseason by beating Camas teammates Avery Fisher and Greta Babarskaite 6-0, 6-1 to seize the 4A district doubles title at Membership Inexperienced Meadows.
As you would possibly anticipate with twin sisters, when the Kerkers prefer to take turns finishing ideas, like a fast rally of volleys on the internet.
“It’s been really fun,” Hailey stated of taking part in along with her sister. “We haven’t played doubles together …”
“In a long time,” Taryn added.
“Like we played together when we were little,” Hailey stated. “But this has been fun playing.”
“Yeah, it’s a good experience,” Taryn answered again.
The Kerkers dropped solely 4 video games whereas sweeping to a few victories within the match. Subsequent up is the 4A bi-district match subsequent Friday and Saturday in Kent.
“(We’re looking forward to) just playing together more and getting good matches in,” Taryn stated.
With Hailey Kerker taking part in doubles, it supplies a possibility for junior Yvonne Yin to enhance from her fourth-place present at state final 12 months.
However first Yin needed to avenge a loss, of kinds, to Annie Sheppert of Skyview within the district singles title match.
Yin took a disqualification loss to Sheppert throughout league play when Yin tried energy by means of and play the match on the identical day she stayed house sick from faculty.
However college students who miss faculty can’t play sports activities on that very same day. The error wasn’t found till mid-match between the 2 gamers.
“So the score was 6-0, then 0-6, and then I got disqualified,” Yin stated. “So I lost that one, but I never really got the chance to finish the match.”
On Friday, Yin completed off Sheppert in fast kind, profitable 6-1, 6-1.
“I think I played surprisingly well for myself today,” Yin stated. “I didn’t expect myself to hit as many deep balls as I did today … so I’m feeling pretty good about bi-districts.”
The match wraps up Saturday with comfort finals to find out the ultimate berths to the bi-district match.
