Boys and Girls State Tennis Tournament Fields Set

High school tennis teams begin their pursuits of state championships Friday, as qualifying rounds for the CIAC divisional tournaments begin.

Formats for the girls and boys tournaments are significantly different. Here are the pairings for girls teams from Patch towns in New Haven, Middlesex and New London counties; click the class headers for complete brackets. Links are provided for each class of the boys tournament.

GIRLS

Class L

Qualifying Round
Friday, 5/24

• No. 19 Norwich Free Academy at No. 14 Simsbury, 3 p.m.

1st Round
Saturday, 5/25, 12:30 p.m. except as noted

• Simsbury/Norwich Free Academy winner at No. 3 Darien
• New Canaan/Shelton winner at No. 5 Amity
• No. 9 Cheshire at No. 8 Newington (10:30 a.m.)

Class M

Qualifying Round
Friday, 5/24, 3 p.m. except as noted

• No. 29 Brookfield at No. 4 Pomperaug
• No. 27 New London at No. 6 Watertown
• No. 26 East Lyme at No. 7 Lauralton Hall
• No. 24 Suffield at No. 9 North Haven
• No. 23 Nonnewaug at No. 10 Fitch
• No. 22 Lyman Hall at No. 11 Tolland (11 a.m.)
• No. 21 Foran at No. 12 Bethel
• No. 20 Jonathan Law at No. 13 Northwestern Regional
• No. 19 Branford at No. 14 Maloney
• No. 18 Sheehan at No. 15 Waterford

1st Round
Saturday, 5/25, 12:30 p.m.

• Killingly/RHAM winner at No. 1 Daniel Hand
• Waterford/Sheehan winner at No. 2 Naugatuck
• Maloney/Branford winner at No. 3 Joel Barlow
• Avon/New Fairfield winner vs. North Haven/Suffield winner (at higher seed)
• Tolland/Lyman Hall winner vs. Watertown/New London winner (at higher seed)
• Pomperaug/Brookfield winner vs. Northwestern/Jonathan Law winner (at higher seed)
• Woodstock/St. Joseph winner vs. Bethel/Foran winner (at higher seed)
• East Lyme/Lauralton winner vs. Fitch/Nonnewaug winner (at higher seed)
• New London/Watertown winner vs. Tolland/Lyman Hall winner (at higher seed)

Class S

1st Round
Friday, 5/24, 2 p.m.

• No. 11 North Branford at No. 6 Weston

• Holy Cross/Wolcott winner at No. 2 Old Lyme
• No. 14 Abbott Tech at No. 3 Stonington

BOYS

Opening Round
Friday, 5/24, 8:30 a.m.

• Class LL, at Hall HS
• Class L, at East Hartford HS and East Hartford Racquet Club
• Class M, at Bristol Eastern HS and Page Park
• Class S, at Conard HS