The 2026 high school girls tennis season is set to begin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The newest season will begin with the defending Finger Lakes East league champion Palmyra-Macedon Red Raiders in action as they travel to play Penn Yan Academy at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
After Ella Eakins graduated from Pal-Mac in June, sophomores Hanna Robinson and Hannah Shoots will be a couple of players that are going to be counted on to step up this season.<\/p>\n
Represented in the FL East in addition to Pal-Mac are Wayne Central, Geneva, Newark and Waterloo.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Sophia McCaig from Wayne and Geneva junior Lynn Yoshikawa both aim for successful seasons this year as well.<\/p>\n
The other two champions from the Wayne-Finger Lakes in 2025 were Harley\/Allendale-Columbia and Lyons.<\/p>\n
After capturing the FL West league championship and Section V Class C2 title a season ago, HAC has left the FL West for 2026.<\/p>\n
Looking to step up in the FL West are Mynderse Academy, Midlakes and Marcus Whitman.<\/p>\n
The West also includes of Penn Yan Academy, Bloomfield and Naples.<\/p>\n
Senior Alexa Burgeson from Mynderse, senior Kenzie Turner from Midlakes and sophomore Shaylynn Christler from Marcus Whitman all look to be factors in the FL West this season.<\/p>\n
Lyons will attempt to defend its Wayne County league title during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The Lions will start their newest season on Wednesday when they travel to play Mynderse Academy at 4 p.m. in a non-league contest.<\/p>\n
Returning this year for Lyons is last year\u2019s No. 1 singles player, junior Megan Taylor.<\/p>\n
It will be a Wayne County league that, in addition to Lyons, will feature Clyde-Savannah, Sodus\/Williamson and North Rose-Wolcott.<\/p>\n
Canandaigua Academy also eyes a successful year this season in the Monroe County league and will begin its 2026 campaign on Tuesday, welcoming Irondequoit at Canandaigua Middle School at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Individual sectionals will be on Oct. 3 and Oct. 4 while team sectionals will run from Oct. 6-9 to start this year\u2019s postseason action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 high school girls tennis season is set to begin on Tuesday. The newest season will begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22531,5930,5926,5927,22532,22535,22533,9441,8622,5924,5934,4478,5295,8615,8624,5925,8679,22536,84,5931,8621,5933,22534,8618,2721,22530,8623,5932,50,8616,8619,8617,5929,5928,8620,28,4477],"class_list":["post-59696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2026-season-preview","tag-athletic-sports","tag-ball-games","tag-balls","tag-canandaigua-academy","tag-cayuse","tag-cayuse-war","tag-finger-lakes","tag-game-equipment","tag-games-and-sports","tag-games-of-physical-skill","tag-grass-field-surfaces","tag-high-school-girls-tennis","tag-individual-sports","tag-international-sports","tag-lawn-games","tag-lawns","tag-marcus-whitman","tag-new-york","tag-olympic-sports","tag-outdoor-games","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-people-from-rushville","tag-playing-field-surfaces","tag-racket-sports","tag-section-v-girls-tennis","tag-solo-activities","tag-spherical-objects","tag-sports","tag-sports-equipment","tag-sports-segments","tag-summer-olympic-games","tag-summer-olympic-sports","tag-summer-sports","tag-summer-sports-competitions","tag-tennis","tag-turf-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}