Tryouts
Tryouts will be held the first week of school on Monday August 12, Tuesday August 13, and Wednesday August 14 from 3:50 PM – 6:00 PM. If you are interested in playing on the team, please be practicing and have knowledge of the game, skills and strokes involved in tennis as well as scoring. You must also have your ATHLETIC CLEARANCE completed before tryouts. Start here for the clearance process.
Team Clean-Up Day
On Saturday August 10th, the SDA Tennis Program will be cleaning up the tennis facility. If you are a part of the SDA tennis program, please come from 9:00-11:00 to help us tidy up the facility.
2024 Summer Smash Tournament
SDA will be hosting the first annual Summer Smash Tennis Tournament to fundraise for the SDA tennis program. If you would like to sign up for the tournament, please click HERE to complete the Google form. The tournament is $60 per doubles team. Please bring cash, a check, or your credit card on the tournament day. You can also pay in advance HERE. The tournament will begin at 10 am on Saturday August 17th at the SDA tennis courts. You may start arriving at 9:00 am for warm ups. We are asking all of our participants to check in upon arrival where you will be given your court assignment. At 10:00 AM the coaches will explain the tournament format and scoring for the round robin.
Each court will have 6 teams that will participate in a round robin. The top 8 teams with the highest point totals will go to a quarter/semifinal/final round to crown the top team. There will be a prize for the team that wins the top 8 bracket. All proceeds from the day will benefit the SDA Men’s and Women’s team.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Joe Tomasi via phone (858) 735-3663 or email (jatomasi12963@gmail.com).
Tennis Camps
Coach Hall and Coach Joe will be conducting some summer tennis clinics at the SDA tennis courts. The sessions are:
Practices
Monday/Tuesday/Thursday
JV & Varsity: 3:50 PM – 6:00 PM
Wednesday
JV: 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Varsity: 3:50 PM – 6:00 PM
Matches
When Varsity has a match away, JV will have a match or practice at home. When JV is away, Varsity will have a practice or match at home.
Be aware of the match schedule and the release time from class. For early release from class, please let your instructor know at the BEGINNING of class (before the bell rings) when you need to leave. Your field trip permission form is on file in the athletic office, you don’t need to show it to your teacher.
Matches are for the entire team! Please plan on being at every match for your team.
If you are not going to attend practice or a match, you must contact your coach and communicate your absence before practice or 24 hours prior to a match.
For the 2024 season SDA Girls Tennis is playing in the Avocado West North County League against Sage Creek, Mt. Carmel, La Costa Canyon, and San Marcos. SDA will play matches against those schools and other nearby schools that the coaches have arranged. More information can be found at he CIF website here.
General Information
Girls Tennis is a fall sport with the regular season typically running from mid-August through mid-November each year. SDA has both Varsity and JV Girls Tennis Teams, each with about 12-20 players. Practices and matches are held during the week after school with most matches on Tuesdays and Thursdays, practices on Mondays and Wednesdays. There are usually 3 weekend tournaments during the season.
At a match the coaches present their line-ups: 3 singles players and 3 doubles teams from each school followed by alternates, listed in order of strength. The order of strength on the line-ups is determined by UTR ratings. Each round is 6 match ups: 3 singles matches and 3 doubles matches (all schools have at least 6 tennis courts).
In the first round the number one singles players from each line-up play each other, the number one doubles teams from each line-up play each other, the number twos play each other, and so on. They play one set to 6 games. When they finish the next round starts with the players playing line 1 against line 2, line 2 against line 3 and line 3 against line 1. The third round would be the remaining match-ups, line 1 against line 3, line 2 against line 1 and line 3 against line 2. Players can be substituted out for another player to come in and play, but once taken out that player cannot be placed back in the match.
More information on UTR is here.
The SDA Mustangs are usually a strong tennis team in the county and advance to CIF at the end of the season.
