29-05-2025
New Albany's Jackson Clements is Dispatch regular-season boys tennis player of the year
The Ohio high school boys tennis season is in its final days, with the state tournament ongoing May 29 and 30 at the College of Wooster.
It was a long road to state for the central Ohioans who reached the season's final event, and all of them spent the regular season putting themselves in position for deep tournament runs.
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Nine area players were featured in a poll to determine the central Ohio high school boys tennis regular-season player of the year.
New Albany senior Jackson Clements has been voted central Ohio's regular-season boys tennis player of the year by Dispatch readers.
All of the votes are in, and the winner is New Albany's Jackson Clements.
The senior went 14-3 during the regular season between first singles and first doubles, reaching state in doubles with classmate Abhinav Dandu.
Clements was a state qualifier in singles each of the past two seasons.
'I've known Jackson since he was 5 years old,' New Albany coach Marc Thomas said during the district tournament. 'Watching him grow and become the player he is … it's been special.'
Clements received 46.77% of the vote, ahead of the London doubles team of Aidan Cooney and Cade Spring (31.42%).
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They were followed by Olentangy Liberty's Shane Hand (9.39%), Columbus Academy's Nason Lo (4.41%), Marysville's Gianni Russo (4.08%), Dublin Coffman's Nik Shough (2.14%), Bexley's Henry Lessard (1.05%), Pickerington Central's Austin Bruey (0.45%) and Thomas Worthington's Pedro Prieto Moura (0.3%).
All of these players are candidates to make our All-Metro boys tennis team, which will be revealed as part of the Central Ohio High School Sports Awards. The live show is June 18 at Upper Arlington High School.
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High school sports reporter Dave Purpura can be reached at dpurpura@ and at @dp_dispatch on X.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Jackson Clements named Dispatch regular-season tennis player of year
