Although Freedom's tennis team had expectations of a win over Emmaus last week, the Patriots' 6-1 victory was somewhat of a surprise to themselves.

"We knew we had a job to do," said Freedom senior, Doug Leeson. "It was probably the windiest day of the year."

Freedom swept the singles matches as Andrew Sinai defeated Matt Fitzmaurice, 6-2, 6-1, at number one, Ross Sonnenblick defeated Eric Ma, 6-0, 6-3, at number two, and Leeson defeated Robert Wang, 7-6, 6-1, at number three.

Regarding his match, Leeson said, "I don't think anybody got more than a two-game lead. We each won and lost an equal amount of points in the first set. [In the second set,] I really just figured out the wind. On one side, you'd have to hit it soft, and on the other side, you'd have to hit it as hard as you can."

Freedom's Sandeep Singh and Nainjot Singh defeated Austin Thoet and Steve Naab, 8-3, at number one doubles.

At number two doubles, Evan Anthony and Jack Fried, also for the Patriots, won in three sets, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6, to defeat Sanket Narayana and Kyle Jaeger.

Anthony said, "[After the first set,] we really just buckled down. Our coaches talked to us about keeping our head in the game. There were a lot of short balls, and we were trying not to get too frustrated, but we're very used to the wind on the Freedom courts. Jack and I have not had as much luck with tiebreaks as we'd like, so it was a real confidence booster."

At number three doubles, Freedom's Aatman Patel and Matt Henninger lost to Austin Long and Justin Ke, 2-6, 3-6, and at number four doubles, Freedom's Ronak Desai and Matt Conners defeated Zooey He and Darsh Patel, 6-0, 6-1.

"We were confident going into [the match against Emmaus], but we didn't expect to win by that margin," said Anthony.