BHS Girls Tennis Wrapped Up Their 2025 Season in the Sweet 16

By Doug Denny-Brown

The Bedford girls’ varsity tennis team finished an excellent and building year in the Sweet 16 playoff round of the MIAA Division 2 State Tournament with a 5-0 loss to defending champion and #1 seed, Longmeadow High School. The game was on Longmeadow’s home courts, on an especially hot and humid day last Tuesday.  

At #1 singles, in the final match of her high school career, senior Co-Captain Ruby Brennan gave her top-ranked opponent all she could handle and battled for each point, but ended up losing in two hard sets.

At #2 singles, Sylvie Denny-Brown, who was under the weather, gave it her all, but her experienced and strategic opponent from Longmeadow was the better player that day, and won in straight sets to give Sylvie a rare loss. 

 At #3 singles, freshman Hanna Suzuki finished up a solid first season with a good effort against a quality opponent, but lost in straight sets, as did Christina Lu and Priscilla Park at #2 doubles.  

At #1 doubles, the last match to finish, with the entire team rooting them on, Erin Cullis and Jasmine Antriasian played a solid match and came closest to a victory, but lost in a close second set.  

The Bedford Varsity girls tennis team, with head coach Morgan Anderson, ended up with a 7-10 2025 season record, improving from just two wins last year and one the year before. 

Other players playing varsity matches to help the team this year were super-substitute, Angela Huang, whose excellent play and first doubles match of the year with Erin Cullis at #1 clinched the team’s playoff win, and Kearsley Erawan, filling in admirably for an injured Hanna Suzuki at #3 singles late in the season.  

Other varsity members include Jupiter Crowly-Moore and Emily McDonald.  

Talented and hard-working JV team members, who supported the varsity players during matches to help them play their best, also improved and played excellent tennis themselves. They included:  Maya Arsenault, Fleur Benmamar, Arya Biyani, Katie Chiu, Veronica Decerbo, Charlotte Graham, Aislyn Kelly, Johanna Kim, Sadie King, Abrianna Murammira, Chloe Yii, and Maggie Zhao.

All in all, this young varsity team, with a first-year head coach and second-year assistant coach, one senior, one junior, and five sophomores and freshman playing regular varsity matches, took a giant step forward this year.  They had key wins over well-ranked Division 1 teams, a #17 playoff seed and ranking, and a convincing 4-1 first round playoff win on the road over a higher seed to get into the Sweet 16.  The perseverance of the team through one of the toughest schedules in the state and their improvement throughout the year were impressive, resulting in the team tripling their regular-season win total from last year, including several close matches to strong teams.  Additional talented underclassman players on the junior varsity team give Bedford good depth as well.

With some play over the winter and more experience under their belts, this team could get to the Elite 8 or perhaps even the Final Four in the tournament next year, and join the other strong spring Bedford sport teams, such as lacrosse, softball, and the boys’ tennis team, that are among the best in the state.