Tahoe Donner tennis team reaches nationals

Tahoe Donner’s men’s 55 and over 9.0 tennis team made it to the semifinals of the national championships.

This is an all doubles league where the combined USTA rating of the players must be 9.0 or less.

The team took fourth place in the Oct. 30 competition in Arizona.

The Truckee team was made up of John Wlcek of South Lake Tahoe, Marty Briesach of Truckee, Zeke Straw of Truckee, Dave Condon of Truckee, Alain Kovaltchouk of Reno, Tren Nolan of Reno, Andy Biederman of Reno, Barry Young of Fairfield, Michael Fischer of Fairfield, Russell Jilot of Auburn, Paul Phillips of Auburn, Terry Vander Ploeg of Grass Valley, Randy Havens of Weimer, and Jim Kooler of Modesto.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report