Two weeks after winning the City team championship, the Palisades High boys’ varsity tennis team will have a chance to add to this season’s hardware this afternoon at Balboa Sports Center. The Dolphins’ No. 2 team of junior Stephen Surjue and sophomore Sepehr Safii advanced to the All-City individual doubles finals with a dominating 6-1, 6-2 victory over Josh Dver and Chris Oh of Chatsworth. There, the Dolphins’ duo will face Granada Hills seniors Jared Novak and Jeremy Choo, who upset top-seeded Darya Bakhtiar and Seth Mandelkern, Pali’s No. 1 pair, 6-3, 7-5, in the semifinals. Bakhtiar and Mandelkern will meet Dver and Oh in the third place match. The doubles final is a rematch of last year’s third-place match, when Surjue and Safii beat the Highlanders’ tandem. In singles, the Dolphins’ No. 1 player, Adam Deloge, advanced to the quarterfinals before losing by injury default to the top seed and defending champion Bobby Tam of Belmont. Deloge retired after three games. In the third round, Deloge defeated Taft’s Adam Sagal, 6-2, 6-4. ‘STEVE GALLUZZO
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