North Canterbury News: October 21, 2021
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Historic day for Kaiapoi tennis<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
The Kaiapoi Tennis Club has<br />
made ahistoric start to the<br />
new season.<br />
Its Kaiapoi Ladies Premier<br />
team is competing in the top<br />
premier grade in the<br />
Christchurch senior<br />
competition.<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Tennis<br />
Association secretary Lois<br />
Daniell says it is the first time<br />
a<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> club<br />
team has competed in the<br />
competition at that level.<br />
Last Saturday its opening<br />
match was against the Te<br />
Kura Hagley Park Tennis<br />
Club premier grade players<br />
at its Sewell Street courts in<br />
Kaiapoi.<br />
‘‘They are ayoung team<br />
who were near the top of last<br />
season's Christchurch<br />
Division One Ladies grade<br />
and were invited to join the<br />
Premier Ladies as a<br />
challenge to grow their game<br />
and the game in <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>.<br />
‘‘Playing against better<br />
players improves<br />
performance, learning<br />
experience and provides a<br />
good challenge,’’ she said.<br />
Although the Kaiapoi<br />
players lost all of their six<br />
games during the day they<br />
acquitted themselves well.<br />
They learnt alot from their<br />
first experience competing at<br />
the premier grade level, and<br />
are looking forward to the<br />
challenge of competing<br />
regularly in the competition<br />
both at home and away.<br />
Match preparation ... Charli Watts, aged 17,<br />
prepares for adoubles match against Te Kura<br />
Hagley Park Tennis Club premier ladies at the<br />
Kaiapoi Tennis Clubs courts in Sewell Street.<br />
Danielle Scheepers ... The 13yearold warms<br />
up before adoubles match against Te Kura<br />
Hagley Park Tennis Club premier ladies on the<br />
first day of the season.<br />
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