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NSTA NIGHT COMP
The NSTA this year re-introduced
our Secondary Schools Challenges
and in Term 1 this was held on Saturday
evening 12th March which attracted 72
players from 10 schools.
Shore took out the honours in Div 1
with Henry Farquharson & Luke Arnold
winners over Shante Lai & Molly Tuit
from Roseville College.
Results of other divisions were:
Div 2: Winners S Laycock & K Fraer
(SCEGGS Darlinghurst)
Runners up S Horley & T Florence
(Roseville College)
Div 3: Winners D Meares & W Pearce
(Shore)
Runners up N Carty & C Gibbert
(Roseville College)
Div 4: Winners J Brice & O Daish-Groge
(Shore)
Runners up (joint) S Litchfield & D son
Hing (Roseville College), C Bowes & Y
Tillekeratne (Sydney Grammar)
Div 5: Winners B
Reynolds & E Coghlan
(Roseville College)
Runners up R Marsh &
J Huang (Online Tennis)
Div 6 Winners D
Manna & A Mahorjan
(Cammraygal)
Runners up M Seymour
& A Rodgers (St
Augustines)
Div 7 Winners C
Gorddard & A Price
(Wenona)
Runners up T Florance & B McNamara
(Roseville College)
Roseville College had a wonderful
representation of girls, very capably
supervised by Suzi Litchfield and
assisted by Chrissy Grun. It was great
to see Suzi and Chrissy so involved with
their team (Roseville College’s team
pictured)
Until we gauge the success and
popularity of our Secondary Schools
Challenges, we have decided this year to
hold two and the next will be:
TERM 3: Saturday 3rd
September 2016
(entries close Friday 26th
August)
For entry forms and
enquiries, contact the NSTA
on 9436 2729 or email
Nsta Night Comps are going well with
267 players participating in NC#2
this year, compared to 201 players in
NC#2 in 2015. 2015 saw a total of 870
taking part, compared to 761 in 2014, so
the Committee is keen to build on these
numbers.
Monday Pairs is very popular, the for-
mat for which is 3 x 8 game sets played
in 1.5 hours. 1st is Best (Trent Mackie,
Gavin Long and Steve Whyte ) have had
a monopoly on Div 1, but recently have
been challenged by Springwater II (Gra-
ham Spring, Peter Cody and Warwick
Lynch). After having repeatedly won Div
2 (the ‘mixed’ division) Team DD (Doris
and Dennis Teoh) were promoted to Div
1 where they challenged 1st is Best for
the title in NC#1.
Tuesday Mixed plays 6 sets between 2
men and 2 ladies on 2 courts. Terranova
(Dave Brown, Rob Laidlaw, Karine Eu-
vrard and Tania Duffy) upset The Dys-
functional (Dave Keogh, Gary Nadjar-
ian, Suzi Litchfield and Jennifer Lin) in
the final of NC#1 but The Dysfunctionals
redeemed themselves in NC#2.
Tuesday Mixed is competitve on court
but very social off court and we would
love to hear of any teams that would be
keen to take part. (Contact the NSTA
or 9436 2729).
To fill some vacant courts on Tuesday
nights, we started a singles comp, which
has become extremely popular. Players
play 3 sets (despite the outcome after
the first 2) in 2 hours and the comp has
gone from strength to strength, needing
4 divisions in NC#2. NC#1 saw Andrew
Martin defeat Andrew Davies in Div 1,
TJ Rangarajan defeated Marko Marelic
Div 2, and Keith Shum defeated Ben
Gavazzi Div 3. NC#2 saw Div 1 go to
Damon Schoonbergen over Andrew
Davies, Div 2 Yarden Turner defeated
Nick Coles, Div 3 Peter McNamara de-
feated Kenneth Gan and in Div 4 Joe
Borg defeated Richard Frykberg.
Wednesday nights is Triples which
in NC#2 has consisted of singles and
doubles - one player plays singles on
one court while the other 2 players play
doubles on a second court. Each player
then gets one set of singles and 2 sets of
doubles, with no off court time.
Killara Lawn has dominated Div 1 with
Killara Lawn 1 (Mariano Kulish, Rory
McLean and Mark Sheridan) taking
out NC#1 and Killara Lawn 3 ( Warwick
Keneally, Wayne Fourie and Ian Brea-
ley ) winning in NC#2. It must be noted
however, that Triple Hoarse ( Adrian
Cachia, Simon Kolbasko and Erik La
Hei) topped the pointscores in NC#2 but
unfortunately fell at the first hurdle ... but
well done boys, it was a big improvement
on NC#1!!
The upgrading of the lights and resur-
facing of courts 7 and 8 by Willoughby
Council at Tennis Valley has been ex-
tremely well received by the players and
at last the facilities are worthy of this
strong and popular competition.
Any enquiries for Night Comp,
please contact the NSTA on 9436
2729 or email
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