Mid Week Ladies Competition

Pool Emergency Availability List
How to print your Fixture page
Fast Facts about our Ladies Competition (including season dates)
Ladies Committee Contact Details
By-Laws / Rules (printable pdf version)
Tennis Court Addresses (printable pdf version)
How to enter your scores online

Season 1-2020 

Click here to view the Grading List for Next Season.   Season commences 30th January.  New fixtures will be available in the next week or so via the FIXTURE link in above banner.

As there are only 2 available BYEs (Section 2 & 5) any new teams wishing to place a late entry, please contact Noela Steinfort on 0409 423 825 to discuss suitability.  

Grand Finals Season 2-2019

To the sections that played their Grand Finals on 5/12, WELL DONE to the Premiers, East Malvern (Sect4), Tally Ho (Sect5), Hallam (Sect6), & particularly Vermont Sth. who won Sect7 as well as the Lorraine Clark Memorial Perpetual Trophy. 

And CONGRATULATIONS to the Premiers of Sections 1 (Donvale), Section 2 (Nth Ringwood) & Section 3 (Nth Ringwood).  Due to a weather delay these sections played on 12/12.

A BIG thank you to our hosting clubs - Nth Ringwood, Vermont Sth, Legend Park & MCC-GIV.

Pool Emergency Players

Season 1-2020 Pool Emergency List is now being compiled.  Any new players wishing to join this list please text or ring Joy Kaias 0413 399 038.

Season 2-2019 pool players - please text Joy to confirm you wish to continue as a Pool Emergency & advice your availability.  Thank you.

Special Notice re Heat-outs

As the phone number to check the temperature is no longer in use, please note the correct procedure on days of extreme heat is as follows:-

Check the temperature at the courts with a thermometer in the shade (prefered method), or check online using your mobile to access the BOM website for your local area.

Gill Quillinan Memorial Charity Event 2019

What a beautiful sunny day we had for our annual Charity Event on Thursday 5th September.

Thank you to all the ladies who came along to make the day such a success.   Thank you also to Flick and Vermont South Tennis Club for their amazing support and donations each year.  Judy & Kym as well as all the committee doing a fantastic job as always.

In addition we wish to thank *MARINE ARTIST LANCE ROSS, *TENNIS ONLY-HAWTHORN, *KOOYONG LAWN TENNIS CLUB, *McCARTHY WINE SERVICES, *TENNIS VICTORIA, *HEATHMONT FLOWERS, *TENSION24 & *PRICELINE PHARMACIES  for their generous donations of our raffle prizes. 

We are proud to announce the grand total of $892.45 profit was made on the day which will be donated to OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION.     

Our tournament winners for the day were:  Caroline, Deirdre & Ann.   Congratulations ladies!   Hope you all had fun!

Premiers for Season 1/2019

Well done to our season Premiers in Section order:-  Donvale, Eildon Park, Lum Reserve, Willison Park, Legend Park, MCC Glen Iris & Eildon Park.

Thank you to hosting clubs for this season:  Vermont Sth TC, Legend Park TC & Donvale TC.  

List of prior Season Premiers:  CLICK HERE

Midweek Ladies ByLaws

Please click here to download a printable version of the WDTA Midweek ladies ByLaws (current - July 2019)

Entering and confirming scores online

Click here for step by step instructions on how to enter your scores.  If you are having trouble please contact Record Secretary via email address listed below.    Scores MUST be in by Friday 8pm.  Thank you.

How to print your Fixture page

Fixtures are now available online - no longer available as a Handbook.  You can print your own fixtures via this website as follows:

* Click on FIXTURES link (in the blue banner above)   * Select a Competition (Thursday AM from the drop down box)   * Select a Section  * Select a Team     Then click on the "download PDF" link (just underneath the Select a Section box).     Then simply PRINT or SAVE.

Note that all Team Captains and their Contact phone numbers are now included under the details for each team  (any errors please let us know). 

Welcome to Waverley Tennis Midweek Ladies Comp

Waverley Tennis Mid Week Ladies Tennis competition provides competition tennis in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne for ladies wishing to play during the daytime. We are always looking for new clubs to join our competition or even new players. We can assist in suggesting a club for you to join or we also have an Association Emergency List that assists existing teams and gives variety and options to a player. If you or your Club are interested in knowing more, please read on, or contact our Executive Committee  (phone numbers below).

Important Dates:-

Season 2 - 2019 commencement date 18 July 2019

• 5 September:  Annual Gill Quillinan Memorial Charity Event
• 21 November:  Semi Final  (or final round if 6 team draw)
• 28 November:  Prelim Final  (or semi-final if 6 team draw)
• 5 December:   Grand Final (& 12 December if required due to weather conditions)

Season 1 - 2020  commencement date 30 January 2020

•  No tennis 2/4 & 9/4 (school holidays)
• 21 May:  Semi Finals
•  28 May:  Prelim Finals
•  4 June:  Grand Final (& 11 June if required due to weather conditions)
•  11 June:  AGM

Season 2 - 2020  commencement date 16 July 2020

• No tennis on 24/9, 1/10 & 5/11 (school holidays & Oaks Day)
• 3 September:  Annual Gill Quillinan Memorial Charity Event
• 19 November:  Semi Finals
• 26 November:  Preliminary Finals
• 3 December:  Grand Final (& 10 December if required due to weather conditions)

Competition Features:

Waverley Mid Week Ladies Tennis currently offers:-

Home and Away daytime Thursday Competition
2 Seasons per Calendar Year (Feb to June  /  July to Dec)
Starting time 9.30 am (can vary)
2 Courts per match   
4 ladies per team - change partners each set
6 double sets per match - no rubbers
Sets are first to 8 - tiebreak at 7 all
Emergency Pool Players available  (see note below)
Semi-Finals, Preliminary-Finals & Grand Finals - no umpires required in any finals games
Home venues for Semi & Preliminary Finals - with Grand Finals at courts designated by Committee.
Online scoring system
A mid-year tournament - all levels most welcome - The Annual Gill Quillinan Memorial Charity Event. Proceeds from this tournament are donated to Ovarian Cancer Research .

Clubs & Court Locations 

Please click here to download a printable version of the WDTA Midweek ladies Participating Clubs & Court Locations - current as at Season 1-2015.

Mid-Week Ladies Emergency Pool Players:

Our Competition permits the use of Emergency Pool Players.  This saves the need for teams to forfeit (with the associated fine).

Emergency Pool Players:-

• must belong to a club affiliated with Tennis Victoria.
• are permitted to play for any club as many times as necessary in their personal grade or above at the discretion of the Executive Committee.
• may still play for their own club as an emergency.
• must be recorded on the Emergency Pool List by contacting the Record Secretary prior to playing at wdtaladies@gmail.com

Special Pool Emergency Rules applicable for Finals:-

All Pool Emergencies (with the exception of Section 7) are not permitted to play in their personal grade during Finals (irrespective of how many matches they have played in that grade).  They are only permitted to play above their personal grade in Finals.  A request MUST be made to Record Secretary prior to using ANY Pool Emergencies in Finals.

The current Pool Emergency List is now available on this website page including phone numbers and availabillity (see above).

Any players wishing to be placed in the Emergency Pool, we would love to hear from you.  All Grades are welcome!  Please contact Joy Kaias - 0413 399 038

WDTA Midweek Ladies Committee 2019/20:

President: Nola Williams - 9803.5315 - president.wdtaladies@gmail.com

Vice President: Margaret Clark - 0418.580.337

Secretary:Judy Searl 0408.568.345  - sec.wdtaladies@gmail.com

Treasurer: Jenny Lomdahl - 0404.831.544  - jenny.lomdahl@gmail.com

Record Secretary: Noela Steinfort  0409.423.825   wdtaladies@gmail.com

Pool Emergencies & Website: Joy Kaias  -    0413.399.038 

History of the Lorraine Clark Memorial Perpetual Trophy:

The Lorraine Clark Memorial Perpetual Trophy is awarded to the winner of the lowest section in the WDTA Mid-week Ladies competition each season.  It is an encouragement award, commenced in her honour in 2001.

Lorraine Clark was on the founding committee for the Mid-week Ladies Competition and became the inaugural President.  WDTA Ladies commenced with 14 participating Clubs and she served as President for 6 years and remained on the general committee until 1991 when she was awarded Life Membership.  It is pleasing to note that our Mid-week ladies competition has expanded over the years, and currently has 37  Clubs participating. Lorraine attended the Gill Quillan tournament in July 2014 but sadly passed away in December 2014.

Questions and Answers

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