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Super Doubles on Thursday 18 November.

The Super Doubles will use courts 1,2 and 4. Court 3 will be available for social players who are not in the round robin.

Tennismania part 2

Tennis certainly was the winner on the weekend. Saturday being one of the best days tennis seen at the club for many years. Next Saturday should be even better with Four Finals on Court 1 beginning at noon .

The full draw and summary will be published on Thursday.

Sofie Sullivan is now a Four Time Ladies Open Champion after defeating Emily Peake in a titanic struggle 3-6 6-1 7-6. The match could have gone either way but Sofie was the eventual winner and pocketed $200 tax free for her efforts. Emily had to settle for $100. Congratulations to both ladies for their effort and sportsmanship.

Two Mens semis were next to be played with Cameron Green defeating Bosko Novakovic 7-6 6-2

and Andrew Riminton defeating Sean White 6-4 6-3.

Both matches entailed some long rallies with the top 2 seeds in Andrew and Cameron winning through to next weeks final.

Two Mens Doubles semi finals were played as well.

Cameron Green/Todd Maloney defeated Milton DaRocha/Jon Corney  6-1 6-3

Sean White/Jono Walker defeated Boyd Blackburn/Bosko Novakovic  6-4 6-2.

On late Sunday a Mixed Doubles semi was played and Maria Nicol/Andrew Riminton defeated

Carolina Penna y Lillo/ Milton DaRocha  7-6 6-3.

Finals Day November 20 will be a terrific day of tennis followed by a Brazilian barbecue.

See you there.

Denis Crowley.

Best wishes,
Virginia
MLTC Secretary

www.manlylawn.com.au

AGM Reminder Monday 15th November, 7.30pm in the Clubhouse. Email me if you would like to join by Zoom.

Club Championships Updates

The A Grade Mixed Final was played on Sunday with Michelle Stevens And Brett Zeola winning in straight sets over Narelle Kinsey and Peter Roberts. The winners will receive their prizemoney on Finals Day whilst the runners up can choose a bottle of wine each from Milton’s wine cellar.

The Ladies finalists are decided after two long matches on Saturday and the top seed Emily Peake defeated Krista Oates whilst second seed and returning past champion Sofie Sullivan was successful over Carolina Penna Y Lillo.

The Ladies Final will be next Saturday at NOON so reserve your seats early.

The top 4 Mens seeds have now reached the semi finals stage and they will battle it out on Saturday following the Ladies Final on Court 1.

Cameron Green defeated Milton on Saturday and he will play Bosko who defeated Roberto Gallardo in his quarter final match.

Then Bosko and Boyd teamed up to defeat Geoff Dunstan and Fernando Alves in a doubles quarter final.
They will take on 2nd seeds Sean White and Jono Walker on Saturday at 5pm
Milton and Jon Corney are waiting to play their semi final at noon on Saturday against the winners on Friday night between Top seeds Cam Green and Todd Maloney v Justin Hooley and Vincent LHeure.

Four time Champion Andrew Riminton had a tough match also defeating Mike O’Connor and he will play Sean White who won thru last weekend.

The Ladies Doubles semis were played and in a marathon effort on Friday evening Sarah Bunting and Krista Oates the 2^nd seeds were winners over Sofie Sullivan and Virginia Longfellow.

Then late on Saturday the top seeded Emily Peake and Carolina won over Kristina Curtis and Kirsten Bruce.

The Ladies Doubles Final will be on November 20.

On Sunday the 2^nd seeded pairing of Sarah Bunting and Jono Walker had a tough fight to defeat Krista Oates and Todd Maloney In the Mixed doubles semi.

At the same time the 1^st seeds in Milton and Carolina won their quarter final Mixed over Virginia and Craig Withell.

They have a tough match next Sunday in their semi final playing Maria Nicol and Andrew Riminton.

The winners to play Sarah and Jono in The Mixed Final on November 20.

The A grade mens singles  quarters and semis were played last Saturday with Alan Bourchardt and Gavin McVean, the top 2 seeds and last years finalists winning through.

Alan defeated Matthew Curtis 9-8 in a long game then demolished a large pizza and went on and won 6-2 6-2 against Stefan Fontes.

Gavin was successful over Hugo in two tough sets.

The Final will be played possibly midweek as both players are  away over the next two weekends.

The A grade mens doubles quarters and semis were played with Top seeds in Alan Bourchardt and Daniel defeating Ray Dummett and Des Tempany on Saturday and Hugo And Christo in a marathon 3 setter on Sunday.

The up and coming pairing of Bede Kirwan and Matthew Curtis with a combined age of 25 years defeated the 2^nd seeds with a combined age of 137 years in Denis and Chris Diaz in straight sets.

They will play the final against Alan and Daniel on November 20.

Chris and I are ordering pizzas before the match next time but somehow I don’t think it will help.

Full results can be found online.

Denis Crowley

Best wishes,
Virginia
MLTC Secretary

www.manlylawn.com.au

NOTE:  PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES TO DRAW PARTICULARLY MATCH TIMES.

Draws for the Annual Club Championships:

MLTC2021-1-MOS

MLTC2021-2-MOD

MLTC2021-3-WOS

MLTC2021-4-WOD

MLTC2021-5-XOD

MLTC2021-6-AMS

MLTC2021-7-AMD

MLTC2021-8-AWD

MLTC2021-9-AXD

 

Thank you to Dean Hodgson for, once again, preparing the draws!

Good luck to all competitors.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS UPDATES

Week 1 of our Club Championships were played in perfect weather despite prediction of rain all week.  All the results can be found on line.

Our four junior players were the star performers of the weekend showing that all the coaching and practice certainly is paying dividends.
Well done to Ruby Quigley, Maria Nicol, both having very close matches. Matthew Curtis and Bede Kirwan also had close matches in the Open singles and winning their A grade matches. All four will be playing again next Saturday as will the top 8 seeds in the Men’s Open.

Two courts will be available from 11.30 am to 2pm for social play and again about 5pm.

There are a lot of matches scheduled for this weekend and the draw is online (see link above). Anyone wishing to change their match times needs to contact their opponents.

All warmups are restricted to 5 MINUTES please.

Come early and stretch before your match!
Good luck to all players.

Denis Crowley

SUPER DOUBLES – MIDWEEK PLAYERS

Should start on Thursday 18 November. Entries are limited to 8 teams. Entries close on Thursday 11 November.

Regular players who compete in Tue/Thu midweek social are eligible to enter. Now is the time to get your partner and enter. Entries should be emailed to Owen Kennedy at [email protected]. Owen has volunteered to run this event.

Best wishes,
Virginia
MLTC Secretary

www.manlylawn.com.au

NOTE:  PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES TO DRAW PARTICULARLY MATCH TIMES.

Draws for the Annual Club Championships:

MLTC2021-1-MOS

MLTC2021-2-MOD

MLTC2021-3-WOS

MLTC2021-4-WOD

MLTC2021-5-XOD

MLTC2021-6-AMS

MLTC2021-7-AMD

MLTC2021-8-AWD

MLTC2021-9-AXD

 

Thank you to Dean Hodgson for, once again, preparing the draws!

Good luck to all competitors.