tennis

The 2016 Essex County Girls Tennis Tournament kicks off on Wednesday at the Althea Gibson Tennis Center in Branch Brook Park, Newark. The Preliminary Round, First Round and Quarterfinal Round will be competed on the first day. Also played will be a number of Consolation Round matches. Eighteen teams have entered this year’s tournament. The top five seeds are Millburn (1), Newark Academy (2), Montclair Kimberley Academy (3), Livingston (4) and West Essex (5).

On Saturday the Semifinals and Final will be played at the same site. Sunday will see the matches to name the top individual singles and doubles players. The bracket for this event may be found under our gray “Tournaments” tab at the top of our home page. Click on “Fall Tournaments, brackets and results” and follow down to “2016 ECT Girls Tennis”