By Courtney Russo – Social Media Editor-in-Chief

The Jonathan Law boys’ tennis team enters the spring season with a lot of new faces.

Whether it’s a new coach, players, or opponents, the team is fired up and ready to start the season strong. 

At the end of last season, the team was left with a giant question of who will be their coach for the 2026 season. With a lot of searching, Jonathan Law history teacher Mr. Zuraw offered to step up to the plate.

“The first couple of weeks of tryouts and practices have been great,” Zuraw said. “I am lucky to have a very experienced group, along with some newer guys willing to learn.”

The captains this season are seniors Siddarth Dash, Surya Gautham, Santiago Panegos, and Parth Gokhale. As a captain, Gautham has been working with the new members of the team to help them feel welcome.

“I’ve been trying to prepare the new players by spending extra time with them after practice to teach them basic technique,” Gautham said. “I’ve been helping them with the basics like serving and groundstrokes.”

From early Saturday morning practices to putting in the extra work after scheduled practice, the team has put in the work early in the season.

“We’ve been working on all of our skills and improving as a team to make sure we are putting in our best efforts,” junior Ryan Berendt said. “We scrimmaged the girls’ team to prepare ourselves for our first match.” 

The team’s key players consist of singles players Dash, Gokhale, and Berendt, and doubles players Gautham and junior Dylan Maselli.

“We try to create team chemistry through shared communication,” Gokhale said. “We also use comprehensive planning.”