Panther Creek won the Tri-9 for the first time, snapping Green Hope's 82-conference match win streak

Below are the team standings, as well as the top six singles players and doubles teams that advanced to the 4A regional competition.

Previous years:

• 2011 Tri-9 tennis blog
• 2010 Tri-9 tennis blog for standings, blog for the tournament day 1 and day 2

One blog with every round of the playoffs as they moved along, and links to our coverage. Broughton won the 4A title, while N.C. Science & Math was runner-up in 1A.

N&O all-area team: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/24/2504139/maggie-kane-the-nchsaa-4a-girls.html

Full pairings listed. We have area players from Broughton, Wakefield, Cary, Panther Creek, Millbrook, Chapel Hill, Cardinal Gibbons, Carrboro, Cedar Ridge, Durham School of the Arts, N.C. Science & Math, Raleigh Charter and Franklin Academy.

Eleven Triangle girls' tennis teams open the year ranked in the top 10 of their respective classifications. The rankings are compiled by votes from the N.C. High School Tennis Coaches' Association.

Here are the teams from our area, with a link to the website for full top 10 rankings.

• 4A - No. 1 Broughton, No. 4 Panther Creek, No. 5 East Chapel Hill, No. 6 Green Hope, No. 7 Millbrook
• 3A - No. 2 Cardinal Gibbons, No. 3 Chapel Hill
• 2A - No. 3 Carrboro, No. 5 Cedar Ridge
• 1A - No. 2 N.C. Science & Math, No. 6 Raleigh Charter

Below are the team standings, as well as the top six singles players and doubles teams that advanced to the 4A regional competition. We will updated the team standings until Green Hope and Panther Creek exit this year's playoffs.

There exists a possibility that the Triangle could sweep the 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A East in girls tennis and have four representatives in Saturday's state championships in Burlington.

Two of the four are certanties.

East Chapel Hill dominated PAC-6 all-conference girls tennis

After Tuesday's matches, the N.C. High School Athletic Association girls team tennis playoffs are down to just eight teams in each classification. Scroll down to see who is left standing and where their matches will be played at next Tuesday.

After Tuesday's first round, there are just a handful of area teams still alive in the NCHSAA girls team tennis playoffs. 

Here are next Tuesday's second-round matches in the 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A East brackets. The headliner has to be in the 4A bracket, where the state's Nos. 1 and 2 teams -- Broughton and East Chapel Hill -- square off.

Cary Academy is the No. 2 seed and Saint Mary's is the No. 3 seed in the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 3-A dual-team tennis championships.