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Club Juniors 

Three of our club juniors competed at the Capricornia Tennis Trial in Emerald on Wednesday with the hope of representing Capricornia in Brisbane next month at the state championships. 

This was for 13-19 yr old boys and girls, club members Ashton Moore, Mikuni Park and Kaylee Davidson competed and by all reports performed well, Kaylee just missing out on a place in the team. These players will all have many more chances to get a spot on the team in future years as they are still young and competing against much older opponents.

 It was great experience for them and their dedication can't be questioned as some were catching team buses at 3:30am (no wonder they weren't at fixtures tuesday night)just to get out there to play! A shout to their parents also for supporting their children on their tennis journey. 

Well done all round!
John Wilczek

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   The Yeppoon Tennis Clubs Christmas Party was a huge success!!

We had a few special awards on the night.

 
Dot Buckton was awarded a Life Membership for her many years on the committee and her hard work and dedication to the club as a volunteer.

The “Ron Graham  Perpetual Trophy”for a Junior as selected by Rob Beak and was awarded to Kaylee Davidson.

The Club championship/ challenge winners were awarded for both Tennis and Pickleball as well as the Junior Tennis winners

A special award was presented by Rhett McKinnon from Tennis Queensland nominating & recognising Ron Graham for all his years of volunteering.

What a great end to the year!!!

For more Christmas and presentation photos check out our Facebook  page. Link below.

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  Club of the Year 2022!!!

Yeppoon Tennis Club  (Yeppoon Pickleball) won Pickleball Queensland Club of the Year 2022 which is a huge achievement and a credit to all our hard working dedicated volunteers and players.

Congratulations Sharon who won Silver in the Senior Women’s Singles of the Queensland Pickleball Tour - Finals.

Our viewing/Shaded area has been painted! Kel, John and the rest of the crew have been working hard for over a week on the prep not to mention the weeks of grinding done earlier.
Well done it looks great!!

More recently the grandstands have arrived and have been assembled and the shed is being erected up at the pickleball courts.

  Club of the Year 2022!!!

Yeppoon Tennis Club  (Yeppoon Pickleball) won Pickleball Queensland Club of the Year 2022 which is a huge achievement and a credit to all our hard working dedicated volunteers and players.

Congratulations Sharon who won Silver in the Senior Women’s Singles of the Queensland Pickleball Tour - Finals.

Our viewing/Shaded area has been painted! Kel, John and the rest of the crew have been working hard for over a week on the prep not to mention the weeks of grinding done earlier.
Well done it looks great!!

More recently the grandstands have arrived and have been assembled and the shed is being erected up at the pickleball courts.

 Dear Members, please welcome our new comittee for 2022/23                                                                                  

President                 John Latinovic

Vice President      John  Wilczek

Treasurer                 Seanna Stanford

Secretary                 Karen Latinovic

General Committee:

                                      Bruce Saxby

                                      Robert Beak

                                      Sharon Ireson

                                      Tracey Hope

Tennis Club Championships

Yeppoon Tennis Club Championships are being held Tuesday 11th and 18th of October from 6:30pm on each night. This is a closed event only for Yeppoon Tennis Club members.

Tuesday 11th October will be the singles competition consisting of Men's and Women's A and B grade.

Tuesday 18th October will consist of Men's and Women's A and B grade Doubles.

We will also be playing the A and B grade mixed doubles.

Nominations to be sent to yeppoontennis@outlook.com by 10th October for singles and 17th October for doubles and mixed. Please state full name and which events you want to play, also partners full name for any doubles event you wish to compete in. If you do not have a partner the club will attempt to find you one however this can not be guaranteed. 

Cost is $10 per person for each event you enter and payable on the night. Robert Beak will hold the Junior championships (to be announced) however junior players are also able to play in the club championships if they wish. 

John Wilczek

Dear Members,

It is with a heavy heart that we advise you of the passing of two Life Members. 

Ron Graham and Richard Irons passed away last week within days of each other.  

Both these members had been instrumental in bringing the club to where it is today.  

They had been involved in the club for many years  going as far back to its first existence in 1949.  

They were both involved in the move to the current location and the build of this premise.

They will both be greatly missed and we acknowledge and thank them for their contribution to the Club.

For all members information:

 Ron Graham's funeral is a private event and a wake will be held at the Sailing Club for all to attend at 2pm on Thursday 18th August 2022.  Many of our club members will be attending the wake. 

Richard Irons Funeral will be held on Friday 19th August at 10am at the Uniting Church near the Bowls Club.  Again many of our members will be attending and wearing the club shirt (optional).

Dear Members,

This year the Yeppoon Tennis Club will be hosting our first ever Seniors Tennis Tournament. The event will be run on August 27 & 28 with prizemoney on selected events. 

All players must be members of TSQ, if players aren’t members they must pay the $20 membership fee when nominating however all Yeppoon Tennis Club members that will only participate in this event only need to pay $10. Entry form has been emailed out to all members.

Online Nomination is preferred through - https://tournaments.tennis.com.au/tournament/A06C4257-BC0F-48C3-B812-2A9C0C7081B1

 Nominations close 21st August.

Any questions regarding this event please contact John Wilczek 0439 875 565.

Its a wrap!!

It was a very successful 4 days with the Coaching Camp, Level 1 Coaching Certificate Course and two days of the Queensland Pickleball Tour.

A BIG THANKYOU  to all our amazing volunteers who worked tirelessly during and the leadup to the tournament. 

I will not list names as I would not like to forget someone which would be unforgivable
So I will list what was covered by you wonderful volunteers.

Tournament Committee
Event Coordinators & General Volunteers
Raffle Organises
First Aiders
Canteen & Clubhouse crew
Facilitators & volunteers, grinding of Court, Net Construction, Barriers
Working Bee crews Sunday 17th July, Friday 22nd July and Monday 25th July.
Coaching Camp & Level 1 Coaching Certificate Course organisers & promoters
Merchandising

Well done everyone who competed. It was wonderful to see so many Yeppoon Players enter the Tournament.  This helped make it so successful. 
To make it even sweeter a lot of our players came home with medals.

Congratulations to:

Tour Events
Mixed Doubles - (Tour 50 & above)
Silver - Adrian Gray & Robyn Hungerford (Sunshine Coast)
Bronze -  Sharon Ireson & Pat Pannunzio (Gold Coast)

Womens Doubles (Tour 50 & above)
Gold - Sharon Ireson & Yukin Horiuchi (Gold Coast)  - Gold ticket to the finals

Womens Singles (Tour 50 & above)
Gold - Sharon Ireson (Gold ticket to the finals)

3.5 & Under Events

Mixed Doubles (open age -skill 3.5 & under)

Silver - Tracey Hope & John Wilczek
Bronze - Kale Hodgson & Natalie Newman (Townsville)

Womens Doubles (skill 3.5 & under)
Gold - Seanna Stanford & Tracey Hope

Mens Doubles (open age-skill 3.5 & under)
Gold - Adrian Grey & Kale Hodgson 
Silver  - John Latinovic & Thommas Grudzinskas (Sunshine Coast)  
Bronze - Sam Janes & John Wilczek 

Full results and photos can be found in the below link.

2022 Yeppoon QPT #3 - Pickleball Australia Association Ltd - revolutioniseSPORT

Pickleball Raffle Winners
1st Karen Latinovic
2nd Shannon Burr (Gold Coast)
3rd Trish Andrews
4th Gail Condie

The Club Raffle will be drawn on the 5th August and tickets are still available.

Victory for Yeppoon Tennis Club! 

Victory for Yeppoon Tennis Club at the Pineapple Cup 2022. 

On Sunday 19th June Yeppoon Tennis Club hosted the annual Pineapple Cup against Cressy Tennis Club (Rockhampton). 

This Tennis Tournament first started back in 2011. Yeppoon Tennis Club won the trophy for the first two years but since then it has been a lean run with our only other victory taking place back in 2017. 

With a lot of our best players committing to playing and plenty of club spirit we set out to try and bring the trophy home.   The day saw 32 players battle it out with many close competitive matches, some amazing shots and lots of laughs along the way. A great day was had by all, and it was great to see so many friends and families there to support the players and enjoy the day.  After the presentation a BBQ lunch was served with some cold drinks to wash it down.   This was a great opportunity to catch up, have a yarn with the Cressy Club members and get to know the new members and families. 

Great results on the day for our club with Yeppoon taking home the Pineapple Cup with a combined score of 118-74 and wins in both the A & B grades!! 

A Grade - Results Yeppoon won the A Grade event 55-41 games.   With Hayden Sparks & John Wilczek winning 3 from 3. 

B Grade  - Results Yeppoon also won the  B Grade with an impressive 63-33 games.   With Mark Slater winning all 3 of his matches. 

The club would like to take this opportunity to thank the Cressy Club for coming down and playing, Warren and Gordon for helping organize things on their end and our great volunteers.  A big shout out must go to Gail, Nobuko, Karen, Sharon and Julie (great cooking) for all their help on and before the day, it's very much appreciated. 

Well done Yeppoon Tennis Club - Pineapple Cup Winners!!! 

The cup is sitting proudly back in our clubs trophy cabinet. 

Cheers John Wilczek

 Junior Development Series 

On the weekend 60 Junior Tennis Players travelled from all around Central Queensland to compete in the Junior Development Series (JDS) playing singles, girls doubles & boys doubles in their age group.  Our Club was well represented with almost 20 Club Junior players competing with some very good results.  Sebastien Hatte was a winner in both his singles and doubles event and Jonte Beasley and Samuel Janes had a win in the boys doubles with a lot of great runner-up results from the rest of the Club’s Juniors.  

This series is played all around Queensland to help develop our juniors by exposing them to tournament play. The series was first established 40 years ago in Central Queensland and is now being played all around the state with the finals to be played in Rockhampton later this year.    

The club also ran an Orange Ball mini tournament during the day which was a big hit with the youngsters.  

 June in Yeppoon – Pickleball Meetup  

It was  a huge weekend for Pickleball during our Meetup with players travelling from the Sunshine Coast, Hervey Bay, Bundaberg, Rockhampton and the Yeppoon crew.

 Over 50 Players came to the Friday night social and a round robin format on Saturday with playoffs in the afternoon. It was a great opportunity for players to socialise and play against players from other clubs. It was a fantastic weekend! 

 A big shout out to Danny and Romy Papo from the Sunshine Coast who initiated this meetup and ran the round robin format. Saturday night most players met up for dinner at the Tavern and Danny ran a game of Trivia to end the night.  We are already making plans for another meet up in September. 

Also recently five of our players competed for the first time in a tournament held at Mooloolaba at the Sunshine Coast.  Sharon Ireson, Kel Rasmussen, David Lapere, Adrian Gray and Oli Gray achieved some very pleasing results. Sharon Ireson played off for Bronze in the over 50’s Singles and Oli Gray our 16-year-old junior did exceptionally well in the singles beating several highly ranked older players getting into the playoffs. 

 Great result for our Yeppoon Juniors at the Rockhampton Primary  Schools Team Trials! 

Congratulations to Noah Marshall, Ashton Moore, Sebastian Hatte, Gabby Telfer, Libby Nye, Brontë Brown & Hannah Hooper (reserve) who have made the selections to play in Mackay for the Capricorn Team Trials. 

Well done to all Yeppoon players and good luck in Mackay on the 6th of June (Capricornia Team trials )

 Congratulations to our Juniors who recently competed in a Junior Tournament.  

Mikuni Park and Zaya Hayward were runners up in the under 13 Girls Doubles.  

Sebastian Hatte won the under 11 Boys Doubles.  

Rhys Hayward was runner up in the under 15 Girls Doubles.  

Well done! 

We are pleased to announce that you can now Book a Court Online through our website!!

Go to our website "Book a Court Online" page and away you go.  The process is easy and once you have made payment you will receive confirmation along with the Keycode and instructions on how to access the court.

If you are a member you should have received an email to register from Rhett our CQ Tennis Devleopment Officer who has helped us set this up.   Once you have registered you will receive Member court hire fees rather than Non-Member court hire Fees.

https://yeppoontennisclub.com.au/book-a-court-online

What a great night!!!
We were very fortunate to have Rob Barty visit our club on Monday evening to share the Ash Barty Story followed by a Q&A. The participation & interest by both parents, junior players and club members  was very refreshing. We had Win News there to cover the story which was broadcasted Wednesday night. Video of coverage in comment section.
The free sausage sizzle was supplied on the night.
A big thank you to Rob Barty for passing on his extensive experience as a tennis parent and the great stories of Ash and her journey.