Three Chagrin Valley Conference athletes opened the OHSAA state tennis tournament with a pair of wins on Thursday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason.
Orange sophomore Genevieve Hayden will place no lower than fourth after winning her first two matches in the Division II competition.
She began her tournament run with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Lexington’s Uloedo Ezike, and then advanced to the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Dayton Oakwood’s Mila Gelbart.
Hayden will play Gilmour Academy’s Abigail Lynch in Friday morning’s semifinal round.
Also advancing to the semifinals was Hawken’s doubles team of Dani Forte and Valeria Kislyansky.
Forte and Kislyanski opened the tournament with a 6-0, 6-0 win over the team from Ottawa Hills, and then defeated Orange’s Adele Tokmazeysky and Raina Patel in the quarterfinals, 6-0, 6-4.
A trip to the state final is on the line when Forte and Kislyanski play Hathaway Brown’s Anna Mills and Ava Kamensky in Friday’s semifinals.
