Castor Bay Tennis Club

📢 Court Maintenance Update

A reminder that work to resurface the top courts will begin this Tuesday and is expected to take around two weeks to complete.

During this time, the bottom court will remain open and available for use as usual.

Thanks for your understanding while these improvements are carried out. 🎾

🏆 Senior Tennis Report – Season Wrap-Up

A strong season for the club across Tennis Northern interclub competitions, with four senior teams representing us proudly in singles, doubles, and masters grades.

🎾 Men’s 5th Grade

6 wins, 4 losses — finished 3rd place
Standout performances from Richard, Jack, Philip and Wayne, all achieving strong personal rankings.

🎾 Men’s 10th Grade

5 wins, 5 losses — finished 6th place
Solid contributions from Tom, Keith and Greg, each improving their personal rankings.

🎾 Men’s 9th Grade Doubles

7 wins, 3 losses — finished 3rd place
Strong team effort from Tom, Greg, Ian, Barry and Ravi, all with excellent individual results.

🎾 Men’s Masters Grade

4 wins, 4 losses — finished 5th place
Erwin delivered a standout individual performance with a strong personal ranking.

🌏 National Teams Event (Easter)
A fantastic achievement for North Harbour in the Men’s 75–80 age group, going through undefeated to claim the Gold Medal.

The team included four Castor Bay players: Erwin, Peter, Ravi and Keith, alongside two other teammates.

Special mention to Erwin, who captained the side brilliantly and went through the tournament undefeated.

After finishing runner-up last year, this year’s result was a proud turnaround with a well-earned gold medal victory.

🏅 Club Championships

Singles Winner: Richard
Runner-Up: Wayne
Doubles Winners: Martins & Peter
Runners-Up: Erwin & Richard

🏅 Handicap Tournament

Singles Winner: Ravi
Runner-Up: Mark
Doubles Winners: Ravi & Erwin
Runners-Up: Peter & Keith

👏 Congratulations to all players for a successful and competitive season, and thank you for representing the club with pride both locally and nationally.

🎾 Exciting news!

Work to resurface our top two courts will begin on Tuesday 2nd June, weather permitting, and is expected to take around two weeks to complete. During this time, the bottom court will remain available for use.

We’re looking forward to having two brand-new courts ready ahead of the new season! 🙌

Exciting progress for our club this season! 🎾

Our main focus has been the resurfacing of our courts. Due to financial constraints, we scaled the project back to the top two courts and went through a fresh round of tenders while continuing our grant applications.

We’re thrilled to share that we were successful in securing funding support from Lion Foundation, Bobby Foundation, NZ Community Trust, and Constellation Community Trust. Alongside this, we’ve been incredibly fortunate to receive generous donations from our club members, sponsorship from Polly Wilson at Harcourts Mairangi Bay, and a Corporate Membership from Penberthy Insurance.

Thanks to this combined support, we’ve now awarded the contract to Game On Turf.

Work is scheduled to begin in the second half of May, and we’ll keep everyone updated as we get closer to the start date.

Thank you to everyone who has helped make this happen. We’re looking forward to seeing the transformation!

We are pleased to advise that we have reached donations totalling $43,700.00 towards our target of $50,000.00 to enable us to re-surface our top two courts. Many thanks to everyone that has donated so far, it is much appreciated.

We are still aiming to reach our target with the remaining $6,300.00 so if any one else is able to donate or knows anyone in the community or local businesses that would be prepared to donate, this would be greatly appreciated.

Our bank account number is 02-0271-0143599-01.

We are looking forward to replacing the old courts in the near future.

FAREWELL TO OUR PATRON & LIFE MEMBER KEITH

Keith has been a valued member of our club for over 45 years and has served as President for 5 years. He has organised senior interclub, tournaments and been the junior Club Captain for many years, as well as a help and mentor to other junior Club Captains.
Keith has also been willing and happy to roll up his sleeves and help out whenever necessary at the club.
Keith will be sorely missed at Castor Bay and we wish him the best.

A big congratulations to our 2026 mens club champs winners:

Singles: Richard Notter
Doubles: Martins Janson & Peter Manning

We had a great day today with the handicapped mixed doubles tournament and then the prizegiving from 2019 followed by a bbq beautifully cooked by Graham/Karen!!

Just a reminder - tomorrow from 9am we would love as much help as possible for the Working Bee! If you have any of the following bring them along:
- enthusiasm
- a good joke or two
- a willingness to support your club
We’d love to see you - especially if you haven’t been able to help at working bees before.

Starting tonight at 6.30pm - Tennis Fit with Glen! Senior tennis starts at 5.30pm and then we can ruin all the good work with a drink afterwards ;-)