FPC girls win Five Star Conference tennis championship; boys finish second

Three singles players and a doubles team won girls titles for the Bulldogs.

By Brent Woronoff
| 5:46 p.m. March 29, 2022

FPC girls tennis coach Javier Bevacqua and his players pose with their trophy after winning the Five Star Conference championship. Courtesy photo

FPC girls' tennis coach Javier Bevacqua walks with one of his players. Photo by Michele Meyers

FPC tennis players Joshua Thorpe and Niko Trunzo. Photo by Michele Meyers

FPC girls' tennis coach Javier Bevacqua talks to his players after the conference tournament was delayed by rain. Photo by Michele Meyers

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Flagler Palm Coast's girls tennis team won the Five Star Conference championship on March 25 at the Florida Tennis Center in Daytona Beach. The Bulldogs edged Spruce Creek by one point.

The FPC boys, meanwhile, finished second among the nine teams.

FPC reached the championship matches in all seven girls divisions with Ania Martynuk, Tessi Carlisi and Trista Rife winning championships at Nos. 3, 4 and 5 singles. Carlisi and Rife won their final matches in tiebreakers.

The Bulldogs also claimed the No. 2 doubles title with Anya Subachev and Martynuk winning the final.

Marcella Warner (No. 1) and Subachev (No. 2) advanced to the singles finals. Warner and Rife advanced to the No. 1 doubles final.

On the boys' side, Joshua Thorpe (No. 3), Alessandro Bevacqua (No. 4) and Jack Mikutel (No. 5) reached the finals in singles. Bevacqua and Mikutel also reached the finals in No. 2 doubles.