2016 NSTA Junior Championships were played over 6 weekends, plus Finals Day, during February and March. Round robin singles and doubles were played on Saturday afternoons or Saturday evenings in 10s and 12s, and this year for the first time, an 8 & Under singles, boys and girls, was held. 176 players entered the tournament, […]
The latest trend amongst the top players in the World has been to hire a ‘super coach’. I define a super coach as a tycoon of the game. Multiple Grand Slam title winner and someone with the aura and presence that if they walk into a room everyone takes notice. The three at the top […]
Friday junior comp Chatswood 1 (Cohen Rinas and Rene Sun) defeated Tennis Valley 1 (Declan Langreiter and Eamon Cachia) in Division 1. Saturday morning comp Redlands 2 (Marvin Ma and Mark Vander Velde) took out Division 1 over St Pius 2 (Riad Calvert and Victor Calvert). Teams from schools such as Reddam, Knox, Barker and St Aloysius also took part, as well as teams from coaching organisations Online Tennis and […]
Unfortunately, due to the ill health of our Administrator, the Primary Schools Challenge scheduled for Term 3 had to be cancelled. However, there was still much enthusiasm for the Challenge in Term 4 which also determined our Champion School for the Year. Fourteen schools did battle at Talus Street to ascertain who was the champion […]
STA Junior Round Robins were held on 23rd and 24th July 2016 and were again sponsored by the Northern Suburbs Ladies Midweek Tennis Associaiton. These ‘grass roots’ round robins give our local juniors the opportunity to compete in a friendly and familiar environment, whilst gaining valuable match play experience. An 8 & under event was […]
2016 NSTA Junior Championships were played over 6 weekends, plus Finals Day, during February and March. Round robin singles and doubles were played on Saturday afternoons or Saturday evenings in 10s and 12s, and this year for the first time, an 8 & Under singles, boys and girls, was held. 176 players entered the tournament, […]
The Challenge went ahead as usual in Term 4 with twenty-one pairs doing battle at Talus Street. We had fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, brothers, uncles and nephews and we even had Hugh Tucker play with his grandma, Jan Lofgren. Father and daughter, John and Grace Bruce, were too strong even for Division 1, […]