Lipton and Dabir lived up to their billing as the top seed in the CCS doubles tournament Nov. 22-23 at Courtside Club in Los Gatos. The duo easily dispatched challengers from Silver Creek, Carmel and Notre Dame of San Jose, before defeating Sacred Heart Prep's Samantha Rosenkranz and Hailey Hemm in the championship match.

The 6-3, 6-4 finale was the toughest of the four matches for Lipton and Dabir, who did not lose a set in the tourney. The win is Dabir's first individual CCS title and Lipton's third. Lipton teamed with Carmen Seremeta to win the 2002 doubles crown and claimed the singles crown as a junior last season.

Another Monta Vista tandem, sophomores Jennifer Chui and Courtney Chin, won a match, but was eliminated in the second round.

After advancing with a 6-2, 6-1 triumph over a Salinas team, Chui and Chin won the first set (6-4) against Menlo's Gaby Filipcik and Kate Serrurier, but lost the next two 6-4, 7-6. In the first round the Menlo pair had topped Lynbrook's fine team of Anusha Shridaran and Katty Kwong, 6-2, 6-1.

Tanvi Dudhela of Archbishop Mitty earned the singles title, breezing through her first three matches before needing three sets to beat Sarah Hoffman of Menlo in the finals.

Monta Vista senior Jennifer Lu, who entered the event as the top seed, finished in third place. Lu won her first two matches, before falling to Hoffman, 6-3, 6-2, in a semi-final match. Lu then beat Christina Yee of Harker Academy in the third-place match.

Lu opened the tourney with a 6-7, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Aubry Cubilio of Terra Nova. In the second round Lu stopped Santa Clara's Silvana Dukic, 6-1, 6-2.

Yee won two matches before running into Dudhela in the semi-finals. Yee's best match may have been in the second round against Saratoga's Valerie Tang, the No. 2 seed. After Tang took the first set, 6-2, Yee rallied to win the next two sets 6-2, 6-3.

Tang had won her first match, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6, over Monterey's Yuka Yamaoka.