Daphne Fancutt Shield

2025 - 34th Daphne Fancutt. Host: Waverley Tennis at Doveton
Saturday 11 January & Sunday 12 January

Our Waverley team was -
18 & u - Alex Boeve & Chloe Sitas
16 & U - Bryan Baik, Noah Dergham, Coco Philp, Teodora Delic
14 & U - Bryn Baik, Noah Kaneda-Hession, Samantha Morales & Anna Banson

5 teams entered from Bayside, ERT, NSJTA, Peninsula and Waverley.
Due to a communication error NEJTA were unable to field a team.

One good thing was that with one less team it gave us more courts and each team had a bye over the 2 days.

Bad thing - the weather on the Sunday.  At 12:35 pm lightning then thunder and then even before players were back in the clubhouse the heavens opened.  We ultimately had to abandon play for the event.  We contacted our Sponsor Lynton Joseph from AATC to ask him to come asap so that we could do presentations etc.

Best Player for each Association (voted by their Team Manager)
Bayside - Savannah James
ERT - Katie Harrison
Peninsula - Jai Smith
NSJTA - Sophia Mirzayeva
Waverley - Noah Kaneda-Hession

Best Player of the Event (voted by Team Managers)
Alex Watts (ERT)

This event is a round robin with each team playing mixed and singles against each other team over the 2 days.  Because we had not reached the situation of playing all associations in mixed and singles the Managers agreed (after much discussion!!!!) to award Joint Leaders to Bayside & ERT.   The new Daphne Fancutt Shield to show the names of the Joint Leaders.  Waverley finished in 3rd spot.

Lyn Gillen
0412 567 496

33rd Annual Daphne Fancutt Shield held at Doveton on Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 January, 2024 and hosted by Waverley Tennis.

Teams from Bayside, Eastern Region, North Eastern Juniors, North Suburban Juniors, Peninsula and Waverley competed in a round robin format.

Teams were to play singles and mixed against each Association but the rain on Saturday changed our plans and we had to abandon play at 3.30 pm. on Saturday.  The two rounds of mixed already played were not counted in the team summary and for the Sunday only singles matches were played.  

Results were -
1st position - Bayside
2nd position - Eastern Region
3rd position - North Suburban
4th position - Waverley
5th position - North Eastern
6th position - Peninsula

Best team member for Waverley - Nathan Rato

Winner of the Overall Excellence Award for the Event - Arrabelle Mancini (NSJTA) plus Arrabelle was presented with the Inaugural “Joseph Family Sportsmanship Trophy”. This Perpetual trophy lists the previous winners (with some blanks unfortunately) since 1992.  Cara Joseph (nee Besch) was the winner in 1995.  She spoke about the core values of the Award and the history of the Event.   The Joseph twins (5 year old girls) presented all team members with their participation award - cute as!!!   

Our Waverley team was -
14 & under
Nathan Rato & Thom Kannampuzha
Victoria Shi & Sasha Minin

16 & under
Seif Saleh & Steven Klasan
Chloe Sitas & Samantha Morales

18 & under
Anton Jusayan & Nikita Liyanage

Special Thanks to our Team Managers - Mel Sitas & Carla Morales

And to Delyth Samuel for the Programme & UTR results input

Lyn Gillen
0412 567 496

Best Team Member Awards -

Bayside - Julian Blainey

ERT - Katherine Harrison

NEJTA - Mark Trbic

NSJTA - Aerone Wolfgang Tabotabo

Peninsula - Eirene Nimorakiotakis

Waverley - Liam Kindler

Overall Excellence Award presented by Nat Allsop to Nic Miloi (NEJTA)

What an event weatherwise!!! plus the decision to suspend play late Saturday afternoon because of the heat left us with 30 singles matches which had been scheduled to be played on Saturday afternoon being held over until the Sunday plus there were 4 matches which had to be completed on Sunday from Saturday.  This did make it a very late finish on Sunday but only 2 players were not in attendance for the medal presentations to all players - great team spirit displayed.

Waverley had to replace our 14s No 1 boy after only one match on Saturday (Seif Saleh out (Sports Trainer’s decision) and Nathan Rato replaced Seif for the rest of the Event).  NSJTA had Florian Kostov play on Saturday but Florian was injured and unable to play on Sunday.  He was replaced by Dylan Dinh.  Also ERT had Ben D’Costa play Saturday and Salvatore Soepardi play Sunday.  The girls survived the event!!!!   Fantastic to see the injured players come along/stay to support their team throughout the weekend.

Presentations to Association winners were made by Lynton Joseph our sponsor (AATC) with his twin 4 year old daughters helping with the “Congratulations” - how cute were they!!!

Special thankyou to all Team Managers for their support over the 2 days.  

Lyn Gillen

2023 Daphne Fancutt programme.

Best Players for each Association:

North Suburban  - Max Hamilton

Waverley - Anton Jusayan

Eastern Region  - Luke Jenkins

Peninsula - Ben Cummins

North Eastern  - Gurmanat Sandhu

Bayside - Luca Connaughton

Overall Winner for event - Charlotte Vanstone McGrath (North Suburban)

Events like this only run with the huge efforts of the Waverley tennis community and volunteers A huge shout out to Lyn and Graeme Gillen and everyone else that helped out over the weekend. Congratulations to all the players and thanks to the other Associations for supporting the event and to their team managers for ensuring the event ran smoothly. Thanks also to the sponsors for the event that meant every player had a prize pack, there were additional prizes for the winning team players and also for the best performing player in each Association.

2022 Daphne Fancutt programme.

Waverley Best Player:  Mineth Nawarathna

Back:   Prisha Baliga   Sam Kim   Jennifer McDonald   Mineth Nawarathna   Marko Pavicic
            Luke Cripps   Ayan Keshwani
Front:   Van Placidi (Mgr)  Sienna Opray   Emma Frerker   Leona Doan

Overall Excellence Award for the Event was won by Marko Pavicic

Waverley Best Player Award:   Ayan Keshwani

Back:  Prisha Baliga    Viktor Sirucek    Chiara Antonacci    Jennifer McDonald    Andrew Ilett    Sam Kim  
Front:  Joshua Huang     Nithesa Selvaraj     Leona Doan    Matthew Thach

Waverley Best Player Joint Award:  Nithesa Selvaraj and Andrew Ilett

Waverley Best Player: Sam Kim

Overall Best Player for Event: Luka Vranesevic

Waverley Best Player: Cassidy Denny

Lucia Placidi  Prisha Baliga  Madeline Kowalski  Jennifer McDonald  Jovana Jovic   Darrin D'Roza   Jordan Batis   Aditya Ajit  Liam Louzado    James Bruce-Smith  
Absent: Isabelle Papazyan  

Overall Excellence Award for the Event:  Liam Louzado
Waverley Best Player:  Madeline Kowalski

Isabelle (retired after Day 1 [centre]) with Jovana (l) and Jennifer (r)

Back:  Lyn Gillen (Mgr)   Darrin D'Roza   Pleurat Qitaku   Eddie Bota   Patrick Bota 
           Cassidy Denny   Melanie Kempson   Akanksha Puli   Daphne Fancutt
Front:  Alen Lay   Max Flaherty   Lucia Placidi   Madeline Kowalski    

Waverley Best Player: Akanksha Puli

Waverley Best Player: Klemens Haberberger

Players are pictured being presented with the shield by Daphne Fancutt
From left to right: Jaide Collins, Priscilla Dawson, Joshua Hocking, Gabriela Sprague, Lachlan Bridgland, Nicholas Gourgoulis, Nathan Ponton, Melanie Woodward, Ryan Draffin and Sophia Storch.

Overall Excellence Award for the Event:  Nathan Ponton

Waverley Tennis Best Player:  Jaide Collins

Back:  Omar Fields  Stuart Draffin (Team Mgr)  Long Nguyen  Ryan Draffin   Nathan Ponton   Stacey Ponton
Centre:  Melanie Woodward   Jayde Viccars   Jaide Collins
Front:   Kelly Martin   Ben Jones
              
Overall Excellence Award for the Event:  Ben Jones
Waverley Tennis Best Player:  Omar Fields 

Melanie, Jaide, Kelly and Stacey

Jaide Collins

Back:   Ben Jones   Christopher Wickenton   Ryan Draffin   Lyn Gillen (Mgr)   Madeline Skaras   Nathan Ponton
Front:   Taylor Petrucci   Jayde Viccars   Daphne Fancutt   Lucy Hopman   Stacey Ponton   
Absent:   Jaide Collins   Audrey Teo 
              
Overall Excellence Award for the Event:  Ryan Draffin
Waverley Tennis Best Player:  Ben Jones 

Ryan Draffin

Back:  Joshua Tran   Natalia Dragojevic    Robert Hilbig    William Ma    Amelia Mills   Aaron Tran
Front:  Long Nguyen   Noelleda  Ah San    Jayde Viccars    Elizabeth Kalyvas
              
Overall Excellence Award for the Event:  Robert Hilbig
Waverley Tennis Best Player:  William Ma 

Back:  Stephanie Skaras   Alana Parnaby  Judy Nguyen  Jordan Cowling  Joshua Tran  William Ma  Lyn Gillen (Mgr)
Front: Laura Rabinovich   Elizabeth Kalyvas  Aaron Tran  Renee Tsongas  Aaron Addison
              
Overall Excellence Award for the Event: Renee Tsongas
Waverley Tennis Best Player: Laura Rabinovich 

Back:     Kate Marshall   Michael Ilett   Trent Cobb   Jason Szeto   Stephanie Skaras 
Front:     Alex Hogan   Laura Rabinovich   Renee Tsongas   Madeline Skaras   Joshua Tran
Absent Retired Injured:  Jasmina Behlic

Overall Excellence Award for the Event:   Stephanie Skaras
Waverley Best Player:  Trent Cobb

Back:   Stephanie Skaras   Renee Tsongas    Danijela Vukasinovic   Rhiannon Watt   Monique Stojanovic
            Aaron Tran   Sam Dowler   Trent Cobb  
Front:  Matthew Nickels    Jason Szeto

Best Waverley Player:    Jason Szeto

Stephanie Foster   Rebecca Vas   Jessica Cossari   Montana Grenfell   Wensi Cai
Kapi Sivakumar   Nic Kalisperis  Jamie Wagstaff    Stephen McKenzie   Rodney Eres

Waverley Best Player  - Stephanie Foster