The inaugural Yarrawonga All Stars Silver Classic Tennis Tournament was completed over the weekend. Entries were received from as far away as Adelaide and Hobart with nearly 200 players enjoying playing tennis on grass courts that were the envy of all of the visitors.
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The tournament was an Australian Money Tournament and carried a Silver classification ensuring the quality of the players was extremely high.
Likewise the Junior Tournament carried the same Silver level which meant there were some amazing kids on court.
In the AMT Mens event Traralgon’s number one seed Jack Clement overcome Melbourne’s Aidan Vaughan in a tight 6-4, 6-2 battle.
In the AMT Ladies event number one seed Adelaide’s Jasmine Adams defeated Traralgon’s Kristen Antonopoulos 6-1, 6-2.
The junior events were equally as hotly contested with some very tight matches throughout the weekend.
Events carrying ranking points consisted of 12/U, 14/U and 16/U events for both singles and doubles.
A range of players were successful in winning or coming runners up in these events.
It was very pleasing to see a large number of local juniors participate in the tournament with many players managing to win quite a few matches.
The local players that performed the best were Jess Linehan and Lucy Bassett who won the 12/U doubles event by the narrowest of margins.
In a round robin a super tie break loss to local pairing of Morgan McRae and Mia Kennedy meant that three pairings finished on two wins meaning a countback was required to split the teams.
Jess and Lucy won on percentage of games won.
Tess Bassett and her Melbourne team mate Annie Simmonds were runners up in the 10/U events after their round robin competition.
It was great to see so many youngsters taking the court.
Besides the points events there were also a range of social events aimed at ensuring parents and other competitors could participate in matches.
There were some very competitive matches as well as a lot of fun especially in the parent/child event.
The Yarrawonga Tennis Club would like to acknowledge the Yarrawonga Lions who catered for the event. Their efforts helped to assist the tournament to run smoothly and the players were appreciative of their efforts.
This event would not have been possible without the amazing local sponsors who were extremely supportive.
Many of these sponsors were acknowledged on t-shirts created for the event which will be worn at tennis courts throughout Australia over the next few months.
Plans are already underway to ensure that event will return in 2020.
