UQ Student Championships: Ashley Wilkinson (President) presenting the UQ Student Ladies’ Singles Championship trophy to Emma Armitage-Ho
Winners are Grinners: Peter Lawrence, Ethan Gunn and Gabby Torbey with some of their loot for the Grand Prix & Club Championships
Top Social Tennis Attendees in 2024: Ashley Wilkinson (President) presenting the prizes to Jarrad Courts, Greg Jones and David Kimber
Social Tennis 50-Club & 100-Club Milestone Awardees: Maxwell Loke, Alex Levchenko, Julian Leach, Rance Wu, Beryl Janz, James Potts, Simon Fung and Patrick Bailey
A highlight of the Christmas Party BBQ on Saturday night, 15 December, was the Trophy & Prize Presentations.
The players being honoured for their on-court achievements were:
ANNUAL CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
OMS - W Ethan Gunn, R/U Jake Fortey
BMS - W Ben Deverell, R/U Michael Hou
BLS - W Gabby Torbey, R/U Katie Walker
CMS - W Kishan Vyas, R/U Gregory Richards
CLS - W Chelsea Mailer, R/U Grace Vang
UQ STUDENT & STAFF CHAMPIONSHIPS
Student MS - W Billy Bougoure, R/U Anakin Lee
Student LS - W Emma Armitage-Ho, R/U Mia Christopher
Staff MS - W Andrew Ferguson, R/U Nicolas Soro
Staff LS - W Jane Van Kester, R/U Margaret Henderson
CLUB GRAND PRIX
Men - W Ethan Gunn, R/U Peter Lawrence
Women - W Gabby Torbey, R/U Chelsea Mailer
The Top 5 Attendees at Social Tennis in 2024 were also honoured:
1. Andrew Demasson (45 visits)
2. Greg Jones (43 visits)
3. Jarrad Courts (42 visits)
4. Bill Hayes (40 visits)
5. David Kimber & George Yap (38 visits)
There were also presentations for the latest inductees into the 50-Club and 100-Club, the Milestone Rewards Program to recognise the UQ Tennis Club’s most regular Social Tennis players. With 1 January 2020 as the starting point, players who attend Social Tennis 50 times receive a ’50 Club’ cap and those who attend 100 times receive a ‘100 Club’ cap. So far, 120 players have reached the ’50 Club’ milestone and 50 players have reached the ‘100 Club’ milestone
The players who qualified for the Milestone Rewards during 2024 are:
50-CLUB
Maurizio Piccardi, Art Ng, Lydie Tran, Teong Chuah, Elle Ditan, Richard Ng, Alan Loi, Daniel Sabeti, Jhn Ibarguen, Michael Forsyth, Karen Crawley, Kailan O’Dell, Nicolas Fertin, Rachel Gerber, Tim Clark, Kay Kim, Maxwell Loke Mary Tucker, Sam Ferrero, Ajay Sampath Kumar, Kyle McGanty, Liam Kerr, Peng Wang, Jacob Godbout & Steven So
100-CLUB
Julian Leach, Pablo Moya, Alex Levchenko, Beryl janz, David Alexander, Simon Fung, Ryan Jones, Patrick Bailey, David Drew, Richard Baldock, Rance Wu & James Potts
A list of the Top 150 Social Tennis Attendees can be found here.