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NSTA OFFICE:  The NSTA office will close from 5pm Wednesday 25th January and will re-open 9am Tuesday 31st January.  For any enquiries please email sue@nsta.com.au and your query will be answered on Tuesday. 

Meantime entries for the NSTA JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS will close on Tuesday 31st January and may be made online through http://tournaments.tennis.com.au (04/02- 19/02 NSTA Junior Championships) or entries may be faxed to the NSTA on 9906 8870 or emailed to the above address.

REGRADINGS:  Regradings from the 2011 Spring Saturday afternoon, Term 4 Friday junior and Term 4 Sunday morning competitions are now available and are effective immediately.  Please ensure all members affected are aware, particularly when entering the 2012 NSTA Championships.  Click here for regradings.

NSTA (GRADE) CHAMPIONSHIPS:  The Grade Championships will now be known as the NSTA Championships, this year sponsored by Guardian Funerals, and will feature some slight changes to events:  Mens events will be similar to previous years (open, A2-A3, A4-A5, A6-A7, A8-A9, B1-B2, B3 & below and Veterans will be 50 & over and 60 & over; ladies singles, doubles and mixed will cater for open, A2-A4, A5-A9, B1-B2, B3 & below.  Open mens and ladies singles will both offer $500.00 each to winners and $250.00 each to runners up.  Clubs/coaches may win up to $1,000.00 by YOUR participation ... win $50 per participant to maximum of $1,000 for your nominated primary club/coach - every participant earns points: 3 for straight sets win, 1 for each set won, 1 for each round robin win, total points will be divided by number of entries for your club/coach (minimum of 10 participants constitues a 'club').  Entries may be made by posting, faxing or emailing to NSTA or online through http://tournaments.tennis.com.au (select 26/02 - 25/03 2012 Guardian Funerals NSTA Championships)  Click here for entry form

OPEN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Silver OJT:  NSTA juniors were well represented in the recently completed Open Junior Championships held 1st - 5th January at Talus Street and Tennis Valley.  Robin Pfister and Lauren Riley were both winners in 16 singles with excellent performances in strong fields.  Laura Wunderlich won the 10 girls singles, and Rinky Hijikata was runner up in the 12 boys singles.  A very gallant runner up in the 14 boys singles was Arjun Mehrotra who had to battle a very noisy and demonstrative entourage as well as a very determined opponent.  This tournament was the first to experience Tennis Australia's new format whereby each age group must run qualifying, qualifying consolation, main draw and main draw consolation which resulted in much more administration and many more matches.  Our sincere thanks and appreciation is extended to Elizabeth and Ian Chappel who ran Tennis Valley from 7am - 8pm over 4 days, taking time off from work to do so.  Thank you Elizabeth and Ian ... your time and efforts are much appreciated.  Also our thanks to Garry Delmege for referring over all 5 days and to Col Ritchie who helped out at Tennis Valley.

NORTH SHORE OPEN - GOLD AMT - $22,000:  The North Shore Open held 15th - 18th December 2011 was a great success with 238 players taking part.  Top seed in the open mens, Isaac Frost (Qld) ranked 16 in Australia, was defeated in the quarter finals to the ultimate winner, last year's title holder and evergreen warrior, Sadik Kadir, who then went on to take out Nick Lindahl in the semis and overcoming 27th Australian ranked Dane Propoggia in the final.  In the open ladies singles, last year's winner Emelyn Starr (currently ranked 19 in Australia) made it to the final where she lost an epic match lasting over 3 hours, to Abbie Myers 5-7 6-4 6-7.  For full results and details see website www.northshoreopen.com.au

SATURDAY SPRING COMP:  Finals of the Saturday afternoon Spring Comp were held at Talus Street and Tennis Valley on 10th December.  Most matches were won quite convincingly the possibly the closest being Div 5 mixed when Chatswood versed Chatswood.  Chatswood 2 (Uwe Helmes, Richard Phillips, Marnie Williams and Ellen Van Dam) ran out the ultimate winners by 5 sets 42 games to 3 sets 36 games over Chatswood 3 (Kyle Hengst, Paul Meltzer, Jane Kempton and Birte Koplin).  Div 1/A was an all Kooroora affair also with K1 (Troy Delmege, David Power, Lauren Riley and Isabella Costa) easy winners over K2  (Ben Dalley, Andrew Somerville, Alice Nolan and Sally McBride); and Div 1/B was an all Lane Cove affair with LC1 (Andrew Scanlan, Adrian Montgomery, Emma Forsdick and Sara Goddard) too good for LC2 (Garry Butler, Daniel Yin, Yvonne Davis and Jenny de Vivo).  Chatswood was also successful in Div 1/A mens with Mark Cowper, Dareen Soenario and Rob Edwards victorious over LC3 (Tom Cartwright, Tom Pym and Patrick Price)

 

GORDON WEST 2011 NSTA PRIMARY SCHOOLS CHAMPS:  Gordon West's team of Will Atkinson, Tom Chapman, Hannah Turl, Emma Watkins, Nick Pike and Lachie Basten battled it out on Saturday night, 12th November at Talus Street, amongst the 12 top performed primary schools this year to become the champion school for 2011.  A count back of games was necessary to break the tie between Gordon West and the 2nd placed Riverview whose team consisted of Aaron Jones, Ryan Seeto, Hugo La Hei, Charlie Morahan, Harry McCann and Marcel Scougall.  For full results, see Juniors > Results on this website.

A1 COMP:  Winners of the A1 Saturday Afternoon Mixed Comp was Renee's team (Renee Beck, Lucy Wood, Niko Trkulja and Matthew Mullane (pictured)) defeating in the final Kathy's team (Kathy Eldridge, Nicole Nissen, Neil Smith and Robert Kilborn).  For details of finals day and further placings, see 'Competitions'.

ENTRIES CLOSING

  • NIGHT COMP - Wednesday 11th January (commences 31st January)
  • SATURDAY AFTERNOON PAIRS COMP - Tuesday 31st January (commences 4th February)
  • FRIDAY JUNIOR COMP - Monday 6th February (commences 10th February)
  • SATURDAY MORNING JUNIOR COMP - Thursday 2nd February (commences 11th February)
  • SUNDAY MORNING COMP (8am only, B4 & below) - Tuesday 7th February (commences 12th February)
  • NSTA JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Tuesday 31st January (commences 4th February)
  • NSTA CHAMPIONSHIPS - Monday 20th February (commences 26th February)

UPCOMING EVENTS

NIGHT COMP:  Commences 30th January (entries close 11th January)

SATURDAY AFTERNOON PAIRS COMP:  Commences 4th February (entries close 31st January)

FRIDAY JUNIOR COMP:  Commences 10th February (entries close 6th February)

SATURDAY MORNING JUNIOR COMP:  Commences 11th February (entries close 2nd February)

SUNDAY MORNING COMP (8am B4 & below only):  Commences 12th February (entries close 7th February)

NSTA JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS:  Commences 4th February (entries close 31st January)

NSTA CHAMPIONSHIPS:  Commences 26th February (entries close 20th February)

NSTA (GRADE) CHAMPIONSHIPS ... see how you can help win $1,000 for your club/coach (see Latest News for details)

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