Club to tryout tennis teams

FOLLOWING on from their six-week evening social competitions, members of the Meredith Tennis Club are looking to continue growing the sport in the region.

A tryouts event and grading day is set to take place next weekend and secretary Bridget Dyer said is all about attracting new people to the club.

“We’re trying to get as many people along to get into tennis,” she said. “In particular, we’ll be looking at people interested in joining our competitions so we can grade them.

“Whether that’s our nighttime competitions or Saturday tennis through the Buninyong or Geelong association competitions, we want to see what they’re interested in.

“It won’t be an official grading but it’ll give us a sense of who belongs in which team and who’s going to play together.”

Ms Dyer said the club is looking to have two seniors teams and about seven junior teams of about 45 players before the upcoming summer season.

With close to 10 teams confirmed already, and their recent winter competitions seeing similar numbers across both nights, Ms Dyer said the sport looks to be getting more popular in the region.

“We’ve been participating in the association competitions since the club was revived about four years ago and it’s grown each year,” she said.

“We started with three or four junior teams, then five, then six and an orange ball. We might event have three senior teams this year.

“Kids are now getting used to playing tennis here, and we’ve also had parents getting involved in the night competitions and wanting to get into the senior teams.

“We’ve actually had more people saying they’d like to see our social competition return for spring and summer as well.”

Meredith Tennis Club’s tryout day will run from 9.30am on Saturday 9 September at the Meredith Recreation Reserve.