Thursday Competition by Ken Sharp
Reports covering the period from
- 4 March to 6 May 2010 -
more - 20 August to 19 November 2009 -more - 21 May to 6 August 2009 -
more This report covers the period from 4 March to 6 May 2010 during which 5 tournaments were played. The highlight was the Tomato Tasting Tennis Tournament. This was played on 18 March and there was keen competition with two divisions playing.
Captain Ken Willis was responsible for rounding up the Dads Army of a dozen older players to attend. It was also Ken Willis and Daryl Warner who competed for the best joke/story of the day.
2009 Ken Sharp Cup
Congratulations to winner Ted Huynh.
The results for the tournaments were:
4 March Division 1 - Bruce Booth and Ralph Peters F22 A10 Division 2 - Lyn Small F23 A9, Chris NorwoodF18 A14
18 March Division 1 - Ralph Peters F24 A 8, Margaret Hulm F20 A12 Division 2 - Peter Brown and Jane Reynalds F14 A10
8 April Division 1 - Ralph Peters F21 A11, Ted Huynh F18 A14 Division 2 - David Venes F 29 A3, Don Trayner F24 A8
22 April Bruce Booth and Peter Brown F20 A12
6 May Jack Fahy and Bruce Booth F21 A11
This report covers the period from 3 December 2009 to 18 February 2010 during which 4 tournaments were played. There were no tournaments during January . The detailed results were:
3 December 2009 Bruce Booth F22 A10; Ralph Peters F20 A12
17 December 2009 Ralph Peters F24 A8; Don Trainer F21 A 11
We were pleased to see that we are back to two divisions for
4 February 2010 Division 1 - Jack Fahy F22 A10; Ralph Peters F21 A11 Division 2 - Jim Venis and Peter Scardoni both on F24 A7
18 February 2010 Division 1 – Ralph Peters F23 A9, Murray Norwood F18 A14 Division 2 – Peter Brown F22 A10, Harold Milham F20 A12
This report covers the period from 20 August to 19 November 2009 There were 6 tournaments played. There was one lost due to insufficient numbers – the first time in 30 years.
This prompted Chris Norwood to contact past and current players. A revised format saw the games reduced to 32 from 40 with play commencing from 9.30am every first and third Thursdays in the Summer months (October to March) and from 1.00pm in Winter months (April to September). We also have a social cup of tea or coffee after tennis in the clubhouse.
This got us back to two divisions , something we have not had for some time. Unfortunately it did not last.
We are pleased to welcome Margaret Hume and Lyn Small. Margaret has already won two bottles.
Details results for the period are as follows:
20 August 2009 Ted Huynh F 24 A8, Peter Scardini F19 A13
3 September 2009 Don Traynor F21 A11, Bruce Lilburn F20 A12
17 September 2009 Cancelled due to insufficient numbers
1 October 2009 Division 1 – Mary Gormly F21 A11, Murray Norwood F19 A13 Division 2 – Margaret Hume F26 A6, Jack Fahy F19 A13
15 October 2009 Only two rounds were played due to rain Division 1 – Jim Venis and Ted Huynh F11 A5 Division 2 – Chris Norwood F10 A6, Moira Kennedy F7 A4
5 November 2009 Margaret Hume F25 A7, Rob Kennedy F23 A9
19 November 2009 Division 1—Mary Gormly F20 A12, Bruce Lilburn F19 A13, Colin Mason F19 A13 Division 2 - Stan Mark F20 A12, Denis Appel F18 A14
This report covers the period from 21 May to 6 August 2009 during which only four tournaments were played due to the wet weather. Numbers were also down.
Brian Ward was a new player during this period. He did quite well winning the tournament on 18 June with Ted Huynh. Mary Gormly did exceptionally well winning on 16 July after arriving from the UK around midnight on the Tuesday prior to the Thursday – a good recommendation for the Qantas Airbus.
Detailed results for the period are as follows:
21 May 2009
4 June 2009
18 June 2009
2 July 2009
16 July 2009
6 August 2009 Division 1 – Bruce Lilburn F15 A12, Ted Huynh F14 A11
At the last tournament it was a lovely afternoon for tennis although the wind was a bit chilly. However there were only small numbers. With the cold wind sets were reduced to 6 games instead of 8 to limit the sit out time.
Let’s hope our numbers pick up during the Spring.
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After
the tennis, the fun began with the tomato tasting. We are
grateful to Jack and Florence Fahy for organising the event
and Gwen Norwood and others members who assisted with the
setting up the tables and display. We had a great number of
tasters present and a wonderful display of home grown tasty
tomatoes. There were unbiased judges for the winners of the
tastiest, smallest, best bunch, and the heaviest (this was
certainly the biggest and heaviest, but completely green and
inedible, weighing in at 535gms).
There
were 23 players eligible for the trophy. This is calculated
from the aggregate of their best 7 results for the year. We
were pleased to have Moira Sharp attending to present her
father’s trophy to Ted Huynh - picture to left. She also
presented the bottles to the day’s tennis winners and the
prizes for the Tomato contestants.
