Yebeen Lee and Cindy Tong represented Dock in the BAL Doubles Championship. They won a quick match versus Phil-Mont’s top team 6-3, 6-3. In the semi-final match, the girls fought hard against Jenkintown’s top pair, but fell in two long sets. At that time, the Dock duo was eliminated.

Due to an unfortunate injury for a member of Delco Christian, the two semi-finalist duos played off for the second and final spot in the District One Doubles Tournament next week in Springfield.

Lee and Tong traveled to Jenkintown to play their 2^nd pairing on Wednesday along with their teammates to support them. The girls came in focused and determined to play their best tennis of the year. With a bright sun shining on one side of the court, there was a clear advantage for the team not looking into the sun. Dock fought well on that side and had a tight first set all the way until 6-6 and needed to win a 7 point tiebreaker to close out the first. Starting on the sun side, Dock went down 5-1 at the court change. Cindy had some big serves and neither Dock player made a mistake on that side, winning six straight points and taking the tiebreaker and first set.

All of the momentum was on Dock’s side for the second set after a heartbreaker for Jenkintown. Yebeen was serving unbelievably all match and had 10+ unreturned serves. She got the set off to an easy start, 1-0 and they never looked back in the set, holding on 6-4 and becoming just the second doubles team to qualify for the District Tournament in the last 10 years.

Congratulations to Yebeen and Cindy and play well in Districts!