You’ve got to love this sport. Last month we had the Over 50 Australian Royal Tennis Team playing the Over 60 Australian Team in Ballarat. No it’s not superannuation class warfare or a junior croquet match … both teams were practising before...
Learn more Learn moreReports are that the Australian Sporting Anti-Doping Authority ASADA now has BTC in their sights. Irregularities in AFL and NRL are said to be nothing compared to the emerging scandal in Royal Tennis. We know there is a culture of performance...
Learn more Learn moreAfter 9 rounds the final Spring Doubles pennant ladder looked as follows: 1 Peter Dunn/John Faull 30 pts 2 Stuart Strange/Robert Lagerberg 26 pts 3 Steve Wright/Alastair Reed 25 pts 4 Terry McDonough/Rohan Bryan 24 pts 5 Jim Stephen/Graeme Fowler...
Learn more Learn moreThis is the most ambitious and one of the most prestigious competitions on the calendar. It runs across the whole year and every BTC member participates in it off handicap. The final this year was between Wendy Whitehead who had beaten Greg...
Learn more Learn moreBTC specialise in losing to Clubs that do not actually have a tennis court. We recently lost to Sydney where the nearest court is a thousand kilometres away and where the only way they practise was on an app on their i-phones. MCC members do not...
Learn more Learn moreAnother year and there is another bunch of names for the record boards. Jenni Murphy is named MVP for two wins and one runner-up. The Christmas Celebration and presentations put on by the Social Committee is a great success with the biggest...
Learn more Learn moreOh no … we are playing another Club so we are almost certainly in for a hiding. Wait a second this is a Club that doesn’t have a royal tennis court. They have to practice using some app on their i-phones. They’ll be jetlagged and culture shocked...
Learn more Learn moreAlison and Jon Dugdale have been popular stalwarts of BTC for the last six or so years. Reliable participants in every aspect of the Club … they specialised in anything that combined tennis, alcohol and fun, and not necessarily in that order...
Learn more Learn moreA small field of some of the best amateurs in Australia came up from RMTC to play in this event. Michael Happell is a legend and with the lowest handicap was the favourite and eventual winner. Great to see Michael Williams back in town and with a...
Learn more Learn moreSomething faintly ironic about a tournament held on a weekend so you can avoid the lawn mowing … being sponsored by SPS, a company that sells lawn seed. Maybe we should get Haymes as a sponsor so I can stop painting the house. Disappointingly...
Learn more Learn moreI’ve heard of the Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games … but what’s this all about? I hope they don’t try to kill each other like they do in the Hunger Games. Well John McClure had something to do with teaching … so he should know and so he...
Learn more Learn moreIn a tragedy that shook the nation Australia won only 7 gold medals at the London Olympics … putting us behind Hungary and equal to Kazakhstan. However if you look at silver medals it was another story. Our 16 medals put us in our rightful 6th...
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