Soren Swenson of Mounds View cheers while playing against Aaron Beduhn of Wayzata during the Class 2A boys tennis individual singles championship match at the Baseline Tennis Center at the University of Minnesota. Swenson won the match 6-2, 6-4. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Mounds View sophomore Soren Swenson stepped onto the court wearing his white “MV Tennis” T-shirt and green shorts. But he added something else: a bright blue “NERF” branded headband. It’s the same one his older brother, Bjorn Swenson, wore when he won a pair of singles state titles in 2019 and 2021.

“Well first of all, it’s my headband,” Soren Swenson said. “I got it at a fourth-grade birthday party, and it’s just, it’s powerful. It makes me win.”

Swenson’s ability to dictate play with his lefty forehand might have something to do with it, too. He won the Class 2A boys tennis singles championship with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Aaron Beduhn, a Wayzata senior who also finished as the runner-up last year, on Friday afternoon at Baseline Tennis Center on the University of Minnesota campus.

For more on Swenson and the state tennis meet, click here to read this story on startribune.com.