Texas High begins in Fall Tennis season today in the Wichita Falls Rider tournament. The boys team appears to be strong but will definitely miss Andy Pullido. Daniel Moser has assumed the role of #1 boys. #2 position goes to Grant Adams, a freshman who is ranked #1 in Arkansas in the 14s. #3 position goes to Trey Brown who won district in the spring. That is good depth with the district champion playing #3. The remainder of the boys lineup appears to be solid tennis players.

The girls side of the team should improve due to their experience. Shannon Malaby is #1 with Hannah Smith and Jenna Markham. a freshman.

The team will get to compete this year on renovated courts and 3 new covered courts. While the court at Texas High have always been good, they have not been the most fan friendly. That aspect has been improved dramatically. Texas High hosts it fall tournament on Sept 7-8.

Even with the loss of Andy at #1, the Texas High boys will still be outstanding. I don't expect Grant to have any problem filling the shoes of the #2 spot. He is a very talented player and competitor, and not only is he #1 in 14s in Arkansas, he has recently beaten Arkansas' #1 player in the 16s division. He improves every time he steps out on that court so he will definately be one to watch his high school career. As for Daniel, still is, as he's always been a stud at tennis. I'm excited to see what all he'll do his final year.

As far as the girls go, they had several key players graduate last season, however they still have there 1 and 2. But as far as depth goes, the texas high girl's don't have alot of it.

Teamwise they should do just as well as they did last year. I dont know about any better or any worse. I guess we'll see as the season goes on. I'll definately try to make it to watch some of their fall tournament since there is always a good group of teams playing in it. Good luck this season to the team! I always like to see my former team do well.

hope they can take it a little further than last year. good luck

Texas High finished 4th at a very competitive tournament

Burkburnett W 10-0
Corsicana W 10-8 - (2006 #13 ranked 4A team)
Wichita Falls L 9-10 (2006 #9 ranked 4A team)
Amarillo Tascosa L 3-10 (2006 #16 ranked 5A team)

Season record 2-2

Next 8/30 at Nacogdoches in the Father/Son Classic. Can Little Watson finally beat the Old Man?

The Nach T-High match will not be a father son battle. Coach's son has left Nach and has taken the coaching job at Lindale.

The lost to Wichita Falls Old High was pretty devastating. We were up 4-3 after winning all 3 boy's doubles matches and mixed but we were unable to sweep the boy's singles...only winning 5 out of the 6. The Old High girl's were just way to solid all the way down and it came down to a newcomer on the varsity team at 9-9 and she was unable to close out her 3 setter.

Against Tascosa #1 and #3 boy's doubles won and boy's #1 singles won. It was a tough match coming off the 4+ hour a.m. match against Old High and many of the boy's side was suffering from pretty bad cramps...needless to say that match did not take long. Tascosa is a great 5a team.

Hopefully we will do better as the year progresses.

Texas High was up 8-1 when play was suspended by rain versus Nacogdoches on 8/30

what teams will be at the texas high team tournament this weekend?

and when you know it [thstennis] post the schedule: when and where the teams will play.

Friday Tournament Results

Group A
Lindale 10 Sulphur Springs 0
Lindale 10 Van 1
Waco Midway 10 Van 2
Waco Midway 10 Sulphur Springs 0

Group B
Texas High 10 Nacogdoches 1
Texas High 10 Center 0
Frisco 10 Nacogdoches 2
Frisco 10 Center 4

The winner of the the Lindale/Waco Midway match will meet the winner of the Texas High/Frisco match for the championship in the afternoon session.

Good tennis in Texarkana this weekend. I wish I could have played.

Great job to Texas High for posting a 40-4 record against 4 tough schools this weekend.

Saturday Pool Play Results

Group A
Waco Midway 10 Lindale 6
Van 10 Sulphur Springs 1

Group B
Texas High 10 Frisco 1
Center 10 Nacogdoches 9

1st Place
Texas High 10 Waco Midway 2
3rd Place
Lindale 10 Frisco 6
5th Place
Van 10 Center 9
7th Place
Nacogdoches 10 Sulphur Springs 0

Texas High goes to 6-2 on the season. Waco Midway was ranked 12th in 4A.

Texas High 15
Center 4

Texas High is 7-2

In District opener

Texas High 18 Sulphur Springs 1

In singles it appears the top 4 boys and top 2 girls for Texsa High did not play.

did texas high number one win again nacs number one?

I know the boys won all their matches. Not sure which match was won by Nac on the girls side.

TH #1 hasn't played the Nach #1 yet because Nach pulled out because with a shoulder injury. However the #2 TH boy was up on the Nach #1 6-1 3-0 I believe when the match was suspended due to rain.

Texas High lost to Corsicana 10-9 in Longview (note they previously beat Corsicana 10-9 in Wichita Falls). They came back in the afternoon and beat Frisco 15-3.

Texas High 17
Mt Pleasant 1

Lone loss was #1 singles in girls. Texas High did not play their #1 players in singles.


Saturday 10/13 Texas High plays Lindale for the 11-4A Team Championship in Texarkana @ 10am

haha lets not forget that the texas high program has like 6 periods of tennis and pretty much every other school has one if they are lucky....

So Janira (#1 MP) beat Hannah? That's interesting. Janira is a very good player and plays a much better game every time I see her play. I have yet to see her this year though.

I think Texas High as 2 periods of tennis. One for JV and one for Varsity. They also have 3 periods for the middle school. Being a good team just doesn't happen. I think kids in the elementary school level get involved in USTA program because Texas High has kept tennis in the papers in Texarkana. There has been residual benefits to the other 3 schools in Texarkana.

When I moved to Texarkana, Longview was considered to be the hot bed of tennis followed by Tyler. I think those cities have seen a decline in tennis and Texarkana has maintained.

But thank you for pointing out to all the world the blueprint to Texas High's success.

Yeah, Longview is definately not a hot bed for tennis anymore. Tyler still has a very strong tennis community. Longview just doesn't have any tennis clubs that promote tennis very much. Most of the tennis in Longview is played at local high schools.

Texarkana has two country clubs that have I believe 5 teaching pros.

Texas High beats Lindale 10-7 i believe.

Texas High has now won 18 straight district Team Tennis titles dating back to the Fall of 1990. That was the year Texas High dropped to 4A.

Congrats to Lindale. I spent a little bit of time out at the courts and it was quite an atmosphere for tennis. You could tell both teams wanted the win real bad.

How'd Daniel and Grant do against Dylan and Corbin? And what about the boys doubles?

Dan won easily over Dylan 0 and 0...I think dylan had an injury to his right wrist.
I sat out of the doubles so Trey Brown played with Dan...they won 1 and 1...but me sitting out hurt our 2 team we had to bring a guy up that played 3 and they lost 6-4 in the 3rd I believe...as far as Grant went I think he cruised in singles.

A regionals Texas High was the 4th seed. Today they beat Copperas Cove 10-4 and Midalothian 10-1. Play Highland Park in the morning. They need some food poisoning tonight for the HP team to advance to the finals.

CONGRATULATIONS Texas High for placing THIRD at regionals by defeating Corsicane 10-9 for third place.

Texas High lost to HP 10-0 in the semis, but managed to beat Corsicana (whom they have beat, but also lost to earlier this fall) in the following match for third.

Congrats on an impressive 15-4 season!

congrats to the tigers! i talked to a couple of the Tiger netters and they attribute the loss to three things.

1. hard to focus with all the bagpipes going
2. mixed doubles game plan of "hit it to the girl" was thrown off because the hp boys and their kilts
3. "black sox" scandal relived....except we'll call this one the "yellow and blue knee high argyle sox" scandal

congrats to the scots

well it looks like the train has to stop somewhere...good job texas high...hp is pretty tough

Our #1 boy's and #2 boy's doubles played HP extremely tough and had chances to pull ahead during both matches.
#1 dubs lost 7-5, 6-4 to Max Stevens and his partner.
#2 dubs lost 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4)
We didn't have time to put any of the top 4 guys on for singles because HP had already massacred our girls...we were pretty lucky to finish the guys doubles matches we had on...5 minutes after we were off time was called...it doesn't matter how good a guys team you have...their girls own!

This is true! I was looking at the complete results in todays paper and their #6 girl is #96 in the nation and #7 in Texas according to Tennisrecruiting.net--and that's just plain CRAZY! I've seen their #6 play and don't want to imagine what the top 5 girls on that team could do!