Preparations are well underway for the upcoming Night Pennants of Thursday Triples and Monday Women’s competitions, due to start the week of February 13.
Triples is now in its fourth full year and the number of teams continues to build. Last season saw 22 teams compete across four sections, and entries are now open for the new season.
Teams are enjoying the six- to eight-week seasons compared to the traditional 17-week Saturday competition, and the flexibility of being able to enter as a single player, a team or a club team, and how much easier the process is to join in.
The success of the Triples framework has now led into a new night competition option of Women’s Doubles, which was piloted at the end of 2022, with 11 teams testing out clubs, travel, format and length of season.
The pilot was hampered by the weather with a number of matches unable to go ahead due to the unusually high instances of heavy rain, but outside of that, the feedback from the pilot was encouraging, so the new season is open with a few small changes, which will help guide the finalised format going forward.
As Tennis Geelong president I am confident that the competition will be successful.
We have had great feedback from the Triples players about what worked and what didn’t when we introduced the Triples competition.
We waited until the competition was bedded in before setting out for our next play option, and I think that has helped us with the positive response we have had from the players.
We still have some adjustments to make, but we are looking forward to Monday Women’s becoming a staple of Tennis Geelong competition.
Details of the new seasons can be found on tennisgeelonginc.com.au along with a link to the emergency pool registration.
Club teams can be registered through your club, or players and independent teams can register themselves on matchcentre.tennis.com.au by searching
Tennis Geelong.
