The ITF 2007 Australian Teams and Individual championships are to be played in the beautiful City of Perth in Western Australia,  in January on what is regarded as the best grass courts in Australia.

The interstate team events start on Sunday 7th January 2007 and the individual age championships ending on the 19^th January.

Events for each age group starting from age 35’s then a new group every additional 5 years up to the 80’s for the super senior men.

Men and Women will compete in singles, doubles, mixed and combined ages that could result in some 57 events.

Teams and individual players will come from all over Australia, New Zealand and from overseas. (NZ is only across the ditch) TSWA is expecting about 700 players to compete in annual events.

There’s more, the entertainment. The Opening ceremony and night B-B-Qs, and the Official Dinner Dance and Prize Night plus the excitement of greeting old friends (sorry there are no old people in Senior Tennis).

Perfect weather is expected, as this is the January summer season with the expected "Freemantle Doctor" the afternoon breeze cooling the afternoon matches (we hope).

Robertson Park Tennis Centre is the head quarters for the event, and is owned by the host’s Tennis Seniors WA. The centre was extensively up graded for the 2005 ITF World Seniors Championships and was highly praised by the internationals as ‘One of the Best’.

TSWA were magnificent hosts and provided excellent transport to the other courts.  Robertson Park is an easy walk from the centre of the City, it took me about 20 minutes.

NSW won the team championship trophy in 2006 but I expect that WA will be the danger in 2007 after witnessing that the world championships interest in Senior Tennis is booming.

In fact the Baby Boomers are hitting the courts in huge numbers, everywhere, as having off loaded the kids and with more time on their hands they are ready to play. ‘Have racquet will Travel’.

There is a report that states there are 4,858,839 people in Australia aged between 45 and 64. ‘Yes’ Baby Boomers who have witnessed the glory years of Australia’s Tennis.

What are we doing to promote Tennis to this group???

Perth is referred to as the "friendly city" and Astronaut John Glenn on his historic fly- over called Perth the ‘City of  Lights' .

Located on the Swan River Perth it is a modern City yet still has pockets of historic buildings that show it’s dating back to it’s original British settlement in 1828.

Perth was originally discovered by Dutch navigator Dirk Hartog in 1616.  Perth’s population is now close to 1,500,000 happy people.

Tourists and our ITF friends can enjoy the spectacular view of Perth form Kings Park, the view extends over the city and across to the east .

Take a ferry ride or train to Fremantle and explore this historic yet trendy City on the coast.

Make sure you extend your holiday and visit the Margaret River, taste the wines and enjoy the beautiful foods of WA. It’s a beautiful country side, Go see it.

City travel is free in the trains and buses within the Free Transit Zone.

There is also a free bus service in the Central Area Transit (CAT)

They are air-conditioned and are red, yellow and blue and run every 5 to 10 minutes.

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