Junior Performance Programmes
On the performance side of our coaching programmes, we’ve had some notable results and achievements of late worthy of showcasing. We had 3 players selected to compete in the Tennis Australia Super 10’s competition – Addison Franklin (recently awarded Blue Gum’s 2021 rising star), Lachlan Harney and Johnathon Maroney, as well as numerous players competing in the Super B’s series including Ben Pooley, Princeton Cheung, Sunday Orioye and Gabriel Teague. Coach Charlotte was also team manager of Addison’s winning Super 10’s team and is now on a winning streak of 2 seasons in a row! Congratulations to all these young stars showing great commitment and dedication at the start of their exciting tennis journey. We have great numbers of players regularly competing in tournaments which is fantastic and it’s great to see the support and comradery at each event from our players. Recently Caleb Sewell was awarded the sportsmanship award at the Rafa Nadal tournament, which is a fantastic testament to his character and personality and rewards him the opportunity to travel to Melbourne later in the year to compete for a chance to go to the Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain. Gerard Hadianto (also recently awarded Blue Gum’s 2021 rising star) travelled to Canberra over Easter to compete in the 12U National Championships and came away finishing in 9thplace in the country having had an amazing experience playing on the clay. Brendan Jayaprakash has just returned from Darwin to compete in his first ITF Grade 4 and 5 tournaments which is a fantastic achievement to be playing at that level and pushing his tennis onto new heights towards achieving a world junior ranking. We are super proud of everyone’s efforts, achievements and ongoing dedication and development to their tennis. Last term to enjoy the last of the summer weather, we ran a beach fitness team building afternoon at Cottesloe beach for all players across our performance programmes which was great fun as always, with lots of activities and fun and games pushing everyone hard! There’s plenty more activities in the pipeline so keep a look out for what’s coming up in the near future!
