A fun day for Aidan Brasier and Tommy James at 4A boys tennis district tournament

Tommy James and Aidan Brasier were having fun Saturday at Vancouver Tennis Center.

After all, James and Brasier were facing their Camas teammates Nathan Chen and Kyle Wen in the doubles final at the 4A district tournament.

Brasier and James captured district singles championships the past two years — Brasier last year and James in 2021. But this fall, they’ve been playing doubles with hopes of capturing a state title next spring.

On Saturday, they won the doubles district title, beating Chen and Wen 6-0, 3-6, 6-0.

And as that second-set score would show, things got a bit silly.

James and Brasier partners were making between-the-leg shots, power returns when a finesse shot was more in order and extending rallies even when return shots were clearly out of bounds.

“A little too much fun,” James said. “But not that much more. It was good.”

“Yeah, we might have lost a few too many points there,” Brasier said.

The silliness began in warmups when James, Brasier, and even Chen, took turns trying to hit Wen with serves.

“It’s this little game called butts-up, and we just like to play sometimes before matches with friends,” James said. “We wouldn’t do it if we weren’t friends with them.”

“It just helps get the blood flowing,” Brasier said.

Figuratively, not literally.

In the singles bracket, a doubles champion from last year is now a singles champion as Union’s Rohan Thawani beat Skyview’s Aidan Bucerzan in the final 6-1, 6-4.