Pat Pearce Carnival

2024 Pat Pearce Event for 13 & U and 15 & U hosted by NSJTA at Hume Tennis Centre on Friday 4, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 October.

Our Waverley team was -

Boys 15s - Alex Boeve, Thomas George, Darcy Stephenson,Jovan Celic

Girls 15s - Coco Philp, Samantha Morales, Diahna Srikanth, Teodora Delic

Team Manager for 15s - Carla Morales

Boys 13s - Bryn Baik, Noah Keltie, Arham Tariq, Jaden Zhou

Girls 13s - Anna Banson, Melissa Fitzgerald, Lulu Philp, Sezen Yildirim

Team Manager for 13s - Lisa D’Amelio

Best 13 & Under Girl Award - Lulu Philp

The Event was won by North Suburban with Waverley Tennis Runner-up.

Special thanks to Carla Morales and Lisa D’Amelio who acted as Team Managers for the Event.   

Thank you to the players and families who travelled to Hume for the 3 day Event.

Results can be found on the Tennis Australia Match Centre website.

Special thanks to Tyler Krumholz from Tennis Victoria for arranging for the results of this Event to be republished due to processing errors at the time of the Event.  These results should now show on each player’s individual UTR profile.

Lyn Gillen
0412 567 496

The 67th  Pat Pearce Memorial Shield was hosted by Eastern Region Tennis on Friday 29th September and Saturday 30 September 2023.   It used to be a 3 day event but this year the event clashed with the Tennis Victoria AJP on the Sunday 1 October and hence our event was reduced to 2 days having to dispense with the mixed doubles to fit everything into the remaining 2 days.  Venues for Friday were Ringwood Central for the 15s and Mooroolbark Heights for the 13s.  Saturday both age groups were at Ringwood Central.

Competing teams were from Eastern Region, North Suburban Juniors, North Eastern Juniors and Waverley Tennis in the 13 and under and 15 and under age groups.

13 Boys - Ben D’Costa, Jack Keown, Jovan Celic, Zac Waterston
13 Girls - Isabella Cameron, Victoria Shi, Diahna Srikanth, Gemma Pearson
Team Manager of 13s - Lyn Gillen

15 Boys - Christian Jelic (injured during event), Nathan Rato, Raymond Zhao,  Eric Xiao Chen, Arian Bagaric (replacement player)
15 Girls - Sophia Brooks-Gay, Coco Philp, Samantha Morales, Teodora Delic
Team Manager of 15s - Carla Morales

Overall Results -
1st - Eastern Region
2nd - Waverley Tennis
3rd - North Eastern
4th - North Suburban

Winner of the Wally Freeman Award for the Best Overall player went to Samantha Morales (Waverley)

Best 13 & under player -Jack Keown (Waverley Tennis)     

Lyn Gillen
0412 567 496

The 66th Pat Pearce Carnival was hosted by Waverley Tennis at Doveton from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October, 2022. Teams from ERT, NSJTA, NEJTA and Waverley competed. Weather was lovely.

On Tuesday 20 September Evan White from NEJTA rang me to advise that his association was unable to field a team due to lots of factors and they would be withdrawing. I said I would contact Craig James to see if Bayside could help them fill their gaps which they did. Prior to and during the event NEJTA had only 3/8 girls left in their team. Bayside helped again with 2 players, NSJTA with 2, ERT with one. In the boys 1 x 15 and under boy from Shepparton was injured on day one and was replaced with a Waverley boy. We had to dispense with the age criteria as we just needed bodies on court. One of their boys also came from Bayside. I called them the ALL STARS team. They all got on well and enjoyed the experience.

ERT had 2 change of orders in singles before the event.

NSJTA had a change of order in the 15 girls. Also injury in boys 15s which created changes of order even shifting from 13s to 15s plus a new player on Sunday to replace an injured boy in the 13s.

Waverley - there were no changes. They must have been scared of me and turned up each day with no replacements required - thank goodness

Results

1. Waverley won the Event winning all 3 matches, 59 rubbers, 108 sets, 848 games - lots of match tiebreaks and good results in the mixed to get over the line on Sunday against NEJTA.
2. North Suburban - 2 matches, 56 rubbers, 112 sets, 872 games
3. ERT - 1 match, 40 rubbers, 81 sets, 735 games
4. NEJTA - 0 matches, 37 rubbers, 83 sets, 745 games

Awards

13 & under girls - Vaishnavi Xiao (ERT)

13 & under boys - Alex Boeve (NEJTA - Bayside)

15 & under girls - Mia Kuribayashi (ERT)

15 & under boys - Aerone Wolfgang Tabotaba (NSJTA)

Best Player Award - Wally Freeman Perpetual Trophy - Goran Girski (Waverley)

Pat Semmens-Angelo Cianchi Perpetual Trophy - Maggie Fitcher (NSJTA)

Special Thank you to Mark, Del, Trevor, Peter, Janice & David, Jan Aitken & family (canteen helpers) plus Graeme doing Records & trying to keep up with all those changes of players!!!! We couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help.