Wanaka Tennis Club

A great weekend in Dunedin at Super Seniors tournament - with Southern Lakes team. 20 players from Wanaka and Queenstown tennis clubs. Third place this year but No. 1 on fun scale !

WANAKA TENNIS CLUB SUMMER TOURNAMENTS
Our senior tournament - Stonewood Homes will be on the usual dates - 2-4 January 2027

Our junior tournaments will be 5-8 January - U 18 U12 - 5,6 January
U14. U10 - 7,8 January

Our very popular Quartz Reef +35 Tournament will be held on 9,10 January

Entries are not available yet but lock in those dates if you are interested.

Congratulations to our Wanaka juniors who represented the combined Southern Lakes/Southland team at the South Island Development Tournament in Timaru over King's Birthday Weekend.

Competing against teams from South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury, Canterbury City and Tasman, our players did themselves and Wanaka proud.

Under 10s
• Monty Parrant
• George Stewart
• Ollie Edgar
• Luca Watts
• Wilfred Walker

Under 13s
• Jackson Parrant
• Caio Crockett
• Franca Edgar
• Bella Currie
• Florence Ritchie

Well done to all players for their effort, sportsmanship and commitment. We are proud to see Wanaka so well represented on the regional stage. 👏🎾

The Quartz Reef tournament was held over the weekend - it was great to be able to play after rain delayed play ,especially on Sunday. On Sunday we had a shortened format but played all the games. We had many visitors from out of town and the standard of tennis was high. Mostly round robin played in 6 divisions each day.
Mens A Grade Doubles winners - Will Lamb and Jules Mumford
Runners up - Kelvin Tagg and Steve Wadsworth
Mens B1 Grade - winners - James Every-Palmer and Craig Squire
Mens B2 Grade - winners - Bruce Eggleton and Peter McCutcheon
Womens A Grade winners - Marina Sokolnikova and Jeanette Marston
Womens B1 Grade winners - Janelle Rathgen and Daniela Zavallone
Runners up - Lea and Amy Mulvey
Womens B2 grade winners - Denise Colton and Meredith Molloy

Mixed Doubles A1 - Tony Hawker and Ritzy Gillespie
Mixed Doubles A2- Jonathon and Caroline Andrieux
Mixed Doubles B1- Joshua Joseph and Meredith Molloy
Mixed Doubles B2 - Steve Lands and Andrea Daly
Mixed Doubles 120+ Group 1 - Max Morrison and Denise Colton
Mixed Doubles 120+ Groupd 2 - Graeme and Louise Wilkinson

A big thanks to Quartz Reef and Trevor Scott for donating the prizes for the tournament.

The Craig’s Investment Partners Junior Tournament which was held from 5-8 January at the Wanaka Tennis Club. There was some very good tennis played from the Under 10s through to the the Under 18s.
Winners:
Under 10s Boys Singles - Carter Goldsmith
Doubles - Carter Goldsmith and Leon Tian
Under 10s Girls Singles - Harper Dawson
Doubles - Harper Dawson and Emu-Ujin Choidorj

Under 12s Girls Singles - Maddie Spicer
Doubles - Harper Dawson and Emu-Ujin Choidorj
Under 12s Boys Singles - Dashiell MacPherson- Martin
Doubles - Charlie Herd and Torran Lugton

Under 14s Boys Singles - Damien Wheeler
Doubles - Harry Gawith and Dashiell MacPerson-Martin
Under 14s Girls Singles - Elina Wang
Doubles - Charlotte Gilbert and Sophie Shawe

Under 18s Girls Singles - Katy Brown
Doubles - Annabel Trolove and Elina Wang
Under 18s Boys Singles - Lukas Necas
Doubles - Lukas Necas and Henry Cooney

If you wish to see the full results they are on the Tennis NZ tournament website. Great play and great sportsmanship from all players.

Hopefully 10.30 we will be good to go with Quartz Reef tournament!

Starting time now 9.30 am for Quartz Reef tournament.

With the rain still coming down please now come down at 9am. Emails will be sent out updated you. It will fine up soon!

QUARTZ REEF
Quartz Reef Tournament - Saturday and Sunday 10,11 January
Most of the draws are round robin with the others being compass draws so we need everyone to report for briefing at 8.30am to give out rules and appoint a group leader for each group.
If it is raining we would still like everyone to report.
Updates will be on facebook.

See you on Saturday and Sunday.
If you need any advice call tournament organiser - Jeanette Hatten

Stonewood Home Open Tennis winners.
Mens singles - Dan Milburn beat Finley Hall
Womens singles- Mackenzie Phillips beat Jordyn Phillips
Men Doubles - Dan and Noa Milburn beat Ryan Eggers and Gavin Mockford
Womens Doubles - Mackenzie and Jordyn Phillips beat Marina Sokolnikova and Carolyn Oakley-Brown.

There were some amazing tight fought battles in the consolation plates with some very close results and some fantastic tennis.