RLTA Thursday Evening Fixtures

These fixtures cater for a wide range of standards separated into two divisions. There is an optional promotion-relegation system operating at the end of each season to allow for the parity of standards to be maintained between the two divisions.

The fixtures are played on Thursday evenings between 7:00 pm and approximately 10:30 pm. The post-match atmosphere is very friendly, with team mates and opposition players conducting post-mortems of what might-have-been over a few liquid refreshments.

Teams consist of five players or more of which four play any given match. The players are ranked within teams to make the tennis as even as possible. Matches consist of 8 sets, each of which is 8 games (two serves each, short deuces) to ensure that matches finish at a predictable time. The teams are relatively self-sustaining in membership terms, but new players can be placed in teams with the help of the fixture coordinator (Betty McCoy). Two fixture seasons are held each year.

The Thursday Night Committee which currently helps run the competition is as follows:

Betty McCoy 3207 5589

David Wilson 0427 448 088

David Young 0405 064 922

Les Finney 3829 0776

Season 1 - 2012

The competition will begin on Thursday 2nd February, 2012. The teams and draws are now available by clicking on the links below.

Season 2 - 2011

The final of Division 1 was fought out by the two teams who finished 3rd and 4th respectively at the end of the regular season - Lorikeets and Budgies.

Unfortunately for the Lorikeets, they were without the leadership of their illustrious Captain Ian, who gave some flimsy excuse of having to attend the marriage of his only daughter Bonnie! Thankfully, David Young agreed to fill his shoes.

So, the night started in fine fettle for the Budgies Greg and Austin, with Austin serving unreturnable thunderbolts much to the dismay of the shell shocked David and Kym. This trend continued with Greg and Austin carrying on for a comfortable win.

The second set was reversed with Michael and Andrew playing cagey tennis to even the match up against Brad and Mark and so it was game on!.

The rest of the night very much resembled a tug of war contest between the two teams with many outstanding rallies befitting a hard fought final. However, at the end of the night, the Budgies were able to "smuggle" out a narrow two game victory.

 

Budgies: Brad, Greg, Austin & Mark

Lorikeets: Mike, Matt, Andrew & David