Shaun Fisher and Jacob Sherren are a match made in tennis heaven.

Sherren is Starsky to Fisher’s Hutch; the Abbot to his Costello. Sherren, a spin-master lefty, is the comic relief who spouts “Hans and Franz” impersonations mid-match. Meanwhile, Fisher, a lanky hard-hitting righty, views himself as “the fire.”

“You’ve gotta have the fire on the court,” said Fisher, a senior at Kentwood High School. “I like to see me as the fire — him as my partner in crime.”

The Conks colorful senior duo enter the district tournament Saturday in Tumwater with revenge on their minds and their first ever state bid at stake.

Kentwood’s No. 1 doubles team will face their rivals from Todd Beamer, Max Dalrymple and Ben Arata, who defeated them in the league tournament earlier this month and three of the four times they’ve met since junior year —including in the first round of last year’s district tournament.

During the league tourney, Sherren and Fisher slightly altered their game plan against the Beamer Boys, which led to disastrous results in the first set when the teammates attacked at the same time.

“I hit the ball,” said Sherren, who attends Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwila, which does not have a tennis program. “(Fisher) hit my hand.”

Sherren finished the game with the hand wrapped and the pair lost in three sets.

Shortly after, Fisher and Sherren followed with another loss to their own Kentwood teammates, the No. 2 doubles team of Jacob Schaefer and Alex Kicker. The surprise loss was a testament to the Conks depth this season, as each member of Kentwood’s varsity boys tennis team advanced from the league tournament to the 4A district tournament. By comparison, Tahoma and Kentlake are sending only one single’s athlete apiece.

Overall Kentwood advanced eight out of its nine entries, with the team’s top JV player being ousted in the first round. Isaac Hegamin, Kentwood’s No. 2 singles player, is an alternate.

Head coach Ingrid Bakke said she’s never had so many athletes advance.

“I’ve had great players, but I’ve never had this depth,” she said.

A change in the district tournament also assisted with Kentwood’s additional qualifiers. Bakke said teams from Southwest Washington decided not to take part in the West Central district tourney, which upped the potential entries to 11 from last year’s nine. However, the change also means fewer athletes from the district can gain a bid to state — five compared to between seven and nine last year, Bakke said.

The change means additional pressure for perfection on the doubles’ teams, as well as freshman Andrew Boupharath, who finished fourth at the league tournament after a surprising 8-1 regular season record.

Bouparath’s only loss during the regular season came against South Puget Sound League Player of the Year, and former state qualifier, Derek Welch, of Kentlake. Bakke said Boupharath “kind of came out of nowhere” with his dominating season.

The 14 year old credited Bakke for giving him plenty of opportunity to succeed.

“Being the only freshman going to district is a lot of work,” he said. “It’s not easy.”

For Fisher, who calls himself injury prone after missing much of his sophomore season with back issues, which popped up again last season, this has been a relatively healthy year that he hopes will end with a flourish. Sherren, meanwhile, has no doubt about that.

“We will definitely give all the teams a run for their money,” Sherren said. “Districts will be exciting to watch.”