Defending men’s champions Parnell have managed to slip past West End to take the lead in the men’s Scarbro Caro Bowl tennis while Royal Oak continue to dominate the women’s section looking towards the penultimate round of the competition this weekend.

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Entries are now open for the Auckland Junior Christmas Tournament being held from 17th to 23rd December, 2009.  To download the entry form or for more details click here.  Entries close at 5.00pm on Monday 7th December, 2009.

The entry forms and fact sheets are now available for the West End NZMT 2 being run 3rd to 6th December, 2009 and the Fuji Xerox Auckland NZMT 3 from 7th to 10th December, 2009.  Entries for both tournaments close on Thursday 26th November.  To download fact sheets and entry forms for both events – click here

The 2nd Grasshopper Challenger Tournament, was held at Manukau Tennis Centre on Sunday 18th October, and was a huge success.
The boys and girls were combined to make a draw of 16 kids. A shower at 1pm, when the tournament was due to start, held up proceedings temporarily, but before long the first round matches under way with were underway on the synthetic grass courts.
The wind did not deter the competitors from playing matches in a good spirit. The consolation final was played between two 7 year old boys. Jono Fall (Manukau & Pakuranga) beat Matt Shearer (Manukau & Cockle Bay). The main draw semi finals were played off between Holly Stewart (Remuera) and Stuart Simmons (Manukau) with Holly winning the match 6-2 and in the 2nd semi final Tiana Windbuchler (Manukau & Cockle Bay) took on Taite Fullerton (Manukau and Karaka) where Tiana came through a marathon of a match the winner 6-3. The final saw Holly (8), who trains at Remuera Racquets against Tiana (9) who trains at Manukau Tennis Centre. This was a very tight match with some excellent tennis resulting in Tiana coming out the winner at 6-4. Thanks to everyone for their help and participation. We look forward to the next tournament at Scarbro Tennis Centre on the 15th November run by Bruce Dick (bruce.tennis@gmail.com). Manukau Tennis Centre will host another tournament on 24 January 2009 before school go back for the new year.

Parnell got the extra boost they needed to retake the top spot in Scarbro Caro Bowl tennis after the completion of round five as Kiwi No1 Dan King-Turner made a successful appearance for the defending champs.On a break after success overseas in professional events King-Turner who has a world ranking of 268 helped his Parnell side to a 6-0 victory over Royal Oak to move his team to 32 points, one ahead of West End.

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