Freedom tennis players Natalie Sinai and Tashanna Smith sailed through the District XI Class 3A Doubles Tennis Tournament last week and were ultimately crowned district champions last Thursday at Lehigh University.

The pair had not lost a game all week until the first set of the final against Parkland’s Patricia Yao and Joanna Wu.

Sinai and Smith defeated the Trojan duo, 6-2, 6-0.

Two days earlier, Sinai and Smith defeated Stroudsburg’s Sara Denny and Paris Briegel, 6-0, 6-0, in the semifinal, and Emmaus’s Shannon Stewart and Jocelyn Chow in the quarterfinal, 6-0, 6-0.

The district doubles tournament began last Monday when Sinai and Smith won their first round match against East Stroudsburg North’s Josie Cucullo and Aaliyah Brunson, 6-0, 6-0, and their second round match against Easton’s Victoria Santos and Giavanna Williams, 6-0, 6-0.

In the Class 2A doubles tournament, Bethlehem Catholic’s Belen Blasco and Jessica Marks made it to the district final but had to forfeit due to an injury sustained before that match.

The Hawks’ tournament also began last Monday with victories over Jim Thorpe’s Chloe Getz and Trista Gehris, 6-0, 6-0, and Saucon Valley’s Sarah Inglis and Katya Yeager, 6-0, 6-0.

In the quarterfinal, Blasco and Marks defeated Salisbury’s Bryn Kubinsky and Paige Gibbons, and in the semifinal defeated Moravian Academy’s Isabella Bartolacci and Miranda Gibson, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Notre Dame’s Logan Lencheski and Keiran Lencheski were then crowned Class 2A champs.