Ōmokoroa Tennis Club

It’s Saturday 19th June and raining cats and dogs! No tennis this weekend. It seems no matter how dry it is in summer and autumn, somewhere during the winter months, the deficit is made up. Feels like half that deficit will be made up this weekend.

Enough about the weather. We held a fun mixed couples tournament on the 12th June and nine couples entered. The day started with a compulsory mulled wine and even though it was a supposed ‘fun’ tournament, those with the competitive gene gave it their all.

Once the official games had been played, couples organised their own games, simply because they ‘love tennis’. The overall winners of the day were the young Jouberts, edging out Sharon Parker and Andrew Dallas. It was a great afternoon, even though the plate draws got a bit muddled, but in the end, even that didn’t matter. Everyone enjoyed it so much that when the idea was mooted for a replay, it was a unanimous yes. Perhaps the next one will be a night tournament to celebrate the new lights on court four.

Apologies to those who entered and their entry ended up in my junk mail. Next time you can text your entries to my cell phone. There were three people affected, but I was sorry that it happened at all.

A reminder that the Ōmokoroa Community

Tennis Club AGM is on Wednesday 7th July at the pavilion in the Council's Pahoia room on the ground floor – not the upstairs space as was previously advertised. Please come and support your club. We have a great committee and you might like to be a part of it.

Don’t forget our club days on Saturdays from 2pm onwards and Tuesday nights from 6pm.

See you out there.