19 February 2022 | Tennis Victoria

Tennis Victoria Country Week 2022 has come to an end, and what a week it was. Swan Hill Lawn Tennis Club played host to a fantastic week of tennis, fun, friendships and community.

On the final day there could only be 23 winners.

Tandara took the A Grade Women’s title while the Lecontes (Shepparton) took the A Grade Men’s title.

Tandara also capped off a brilliant week by winning the Gilchrist Pearce Cup, an award for all 23 grades to aspire to for achieving the highest game winning percentage from all round matches.

The full list of Country Week Winners and Runners Up are:

 

Women’s Grade	Winner	Runner Up
A	Tandara	Traralgon TC
Special B1	Hit’n’Miss (Kooyong)	Shepparton Bluebirds
Special B2	Tandara We Wish	Gippsland Hall of Framers (East Gippsland)
B1	Gogo Girls (Kooyong)	Match Makers (Brisbane)
B2	Mud Island	Rochester Sweet
B3	Wellington Warriors	Y G S Ladies (Peninsula & Yarra Glen)
Special C1	Allsorts (Yarrawonga)	Loddon Valley
Special C2	Highpoint Shoppers (Melbourne Metro)	Swan Hill Go Girls
Special C3	Leongatha	Bilby Babes (Buninyong)
C1	Double Trouble (South Gippsland)	Macedon KMA
C2	GippyAds (Korumburra)	Faultless 2022 (Creswick)
C3	PMT Club (Merimbula)	Gippy Girls
C4	Swan Hill Treasures	Wodonga West
Men’s Grades	Winner	Runner Up
A	Lecontes (Shepparton)	Buln Buln
Special B1	Border Warriors (Albury)	Seagrubs (Geelong/Barwon)
Special B2	Leongatha Arm-Bars	Wangaratta Blue/Green
B1	Hitmen (Kooyong)	Deucebags (Pakenham)
B2	Here For The Beers (St Arnaud)	Weston Creek
B3	East Albury Wolfpack	Mud Island Gropers
C1	The Fentons (Jindera)	Bacchus Marsh Yes Men
C2	Castlemaine Pangolins 2	Mud Island One Job
C3	Leongatha	Ballarat Furphy’s
C4	Karra Bushchooks (Shepparton)	Swan Hill Lads

 

Gilchrist Pearce Cup:

Tandara

Country Week 2022 – By the numbers:

 1200 Players took part in Tennis Victoria Country Week 2022, aged between 15 and 83.

189 Teams competed – 107 female teams, 82 male teams.

There were 23 grades contested over the week.

2,304 Dunlop Australian Open tennis balls were used.

92 pristine grass courts were curated and prepared by Country Week Legend Dan Gardner. This included 47 permanent courts and 45 courts prepared on the soccer and croquet fields.

50 tennis nets were produced. The temporary court nets are then available for purchase by participating teams to take home to their clubs.

60 racquets were restrung by the team at Tennis Lab.

576 Salad Rolls were devoured at lunchtime throughout the week.

Over 1000 bottles of water kept players hydrated.

600 people attended Swan Hill Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club’s Welcome Night on Sunday.

17 local stalls sold their wares at the Farmer’s Market on Thursday.

 

6 participants were named Country Week Legends. Congratulations to Karyn Fraser (Mansfield), Heather Camm (Euroa), Kelvin Noonan (Maryborough), Tracey Beaston (Buninyong), Ange Willett (Enfield), Daniel Gardner (Swan Hill)

 

There was 1 heat delay across the week giving the players some welcome relief from the heat.

Over 200 hardworking volunteers from the Swan Hill Lawn Tennis Club, working together with Tennis Victoria, contributed to the wonderful event presentation that the club displayed.

 

Swan Hill teams had the shortest drive to get to Country Week. Others had a bigger trip with players travelling from as far as Alice Springs, Merimbula and Brisbane.

We hosted 3 community support organisations. Thank you to the EJ Whitten Foundation, Beyond Blue and FARA Australia for their support of Country Week.

Thank you also to Sunblessed Sunscreens and Tennis Lab for supporting Country Week.

The greatest community sporting event may have come to an end for another year but it will be back again in 2023 from Sunday 12 to Friday 17 February when it heads to Shepparton & Mooroopna.