It was a great pre-Christmas season for the Thorndon tennis teams. I play on the Premier 2 team, where we surpassed our expectations and made the final. The match reports for those games are below.
The Premier 1 men's team also made their final, where they were narrowly beaten by Wellington in an outstanding final that showcased the best of Auckland's tennis stars! Their achievement was all the more impressive as they had to cope without their captain Nick White and call up one of our Premier 2 players on occasion. Fortunately they proved to have sufficient cover.
Our men's Interclub 1 team stormed through their league to collect their third league win in three campaigns. After starting in Interclub 2 a year ago they will now be playing in the Premier 3 promotion league after Christmas, and are all very excited to be playing at 1pm instead of 8:30am. Congratulations in particular to Chris Schilling, Steve Goodman, Darren Keall and John O'Donnell who've been the regulars in this team's meteoric ascent.
The men's teams in the 4th, 5th and 6th interclub grades all achieved good mid-table finishes. It's terrific that the club can support six teams that are doing so well.
On the women's side, our Premier 1 team finished top of the league but lost a tight semi-final to Khandallah. Hannah Seemann, daughter of Thorndon Premier 1 mainstay Phil Seemann, led Khandallah to victory with a fine win in the top singles against Makere Bradnam.
Our women's Interclub 1 team achieved an excellent third place finish, thanks to some high quality new imports. Sadly they will be losing at least one player back to the UK at Christmas but are already working hard on finding new faces. The women's teams in Interclub 2 and 3 also had good campaigns.
Well done to everyone involved. There has been some great tennis this year and a lot of support shown between the teams. The only thing that could have been better was the weather, so hopefully that'll improve in time for February.
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