GIPPSLAND Sports Academy’s Tennis Victoria tennis players have come away from the Victorian Tennis Series with success.
The girls’ team, which was made up of Vicky Stuckey, Kate Marshall, Krystal Rawnson and former academy player Jessie Johnstone, won grade five and was undefeated for the series.
To top off the win Stuckey was also named player of the series in grade five.
The Gippsland players competed for Caulfield Rec Club.
The academy’s boys, Jay MilfordRobertson, David Waddell, Edward Hawke and Haydn Clancy, won the sectionnine pennant. The boys, who also played for Caulfield Rec Club, played off for the gradenine title but lost.
Chris Thomas, who played for MCC, took out the grade10 final. Other academy members who competed in the finals were David Donchi (grade four, Grace Park) and Jo Alexander Commerford (grade six, Springvale).
In the final of the Prince Masters Series held at the Bairnsdale Tennis Club last Sunday. Pakenham athlete Kate Marshall won a strong under16 girls’ singles final by defeating fellow academy member Krystal Rawnson. David Donchi of Bairnsdale won the under16 boys’ singles.
Stuckey, Donchi and Hawke have also made the cut to compete in the Australian Hard Court Championships in Melbourne, while the rest of the squad will compete in the Classic Clay National Points Championships in Bairnsdale.
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