There was much excitement at the Geelong Lawn Tennis Club last Saturday as players started arriving in their Wimbledon whites to celebrate the opening of the grass courts’ season.
Play started at 12.30pm with a friendly in-house competition between teams of a maximum of eight players with all grass courts being used to the max.
The slightly later start to the grass season than normal was due to the wet weather but also because of a full renovation of the courts – the thatch build up needed to be removed which has resulted in a slightly inconsistent bounce of the ball but this should soon settle.
However, this was not the only reason members had come to the club that day.
The Geelong Lawn Tennis Club celebrated a new award called the Graeme Kinross-Smith Perpetual Award for the best club person of the year.
The award is in recognition of the late Graeme, who was a valued member and an avid writer, known primarily through his writing of ‘The Sweet Spot’ capturing the first 100 year history of the club.
The inaugural winner was David St Quintin, who is known for his dedication and hard work at maintaining the clay courts all year.
In the meantime, on show courts one and two, the senior competition was played by section 1 Geelong Lawn Green against Highton.
Geelong Lawn proved too strong winning 4-30 against 2-26.
