PREP ROUNDUP : Century League’s Top-Seeded Players Give No Ground

After strong Santa Ana winds postponed the opening rounds of the Century League girls’ tennis finals, El Modena’s Brandi Freudenberg and Amy Medlin blew away the competition when play began Wednesday at Orange High School.

Top-seeded Freudenberg and second-seeded Medlin did not lose a game during their first-round and quarterfinal victories.

Freudenberg, a sophomore ranked in the top five nationally in girls’ 16 singles, defeated Canyon’s Stephanie Severy, 6-0, 6-0, in the quarterfinals.

Medlin, a freshman, won 21 consecutive games before her quarterfinal match with Villa Park’s Susan Shaw was suspended by darkness. Medlin leads Shaw, 6-0, 3-0, with the match concluding this afternoon.

If Medlin defeats Shaw, she will advance to today’s final round, joining Freudenberg, third-seeded Ashley Thurston of Villa Park, and fourth-seeded Kim Westermann of Canyon, a freshman. The four semifinalists will play each other in best-of-three sets, in a round-robin format.

In doubles, top-seeded Lindsay Fry and Jill Riley of Villa Park advanced to the round-robin finals along with second-seeded Jane Park and Andrea Claus of Foothill, the defending league champions.

The singles player and doubles team with the best records will be league champions, with the runners-up also receiving berths in the Southern Section tournament.