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Tennis champs decided for 2024

April 9, 2024

The Ōtaki senior tennis club champs finals were held on Sunday (07/04/24) in perfect weather and with awesome tennis played all afternoon. A great write-up in Ōtaki Today here. Check out our winners here: https://otakisportsclub.co.nz/tennis-club-champs-honours-board/ Lots of action photos here from the day: https://www.facebook.com/otakisports/posts/888904603037847 The progress of the champs in the main draws is here: […]

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Tennis club champs 2024 draws

February 29, 2024

Here are the draws for the tennis club champs 2024. Good luck and happy hitting! All prelim matches first to 9 (or best of 3 sets, if agreed by players). Finals weekend is 6/7 April. All the doubles finals (inc Plate finals) on the Sunday. Singles finals day likely Saturday but tbc depending on singles

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Three times tennis title winners

December 10, 2023

Three-peat!! Ōtaki 1, the club’s most successful tennis team of the past few years, has just won the Wellington Mixed A Grade for the third time in a row. The team first came together for the 2022 spring pre-Christmas round, which it won undefeated; it then won the 2023 summer post-Christmas round; and this week

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New programme for junior tennis coaching

September 3, 2023

For the 2023.24 season , we have an awesome new junior tennis coaching opportunity for the community. This season we are introducing Hot Shots tennis coaching., a Tennis-NZ accredited programme that enables kids of all ages and abilities to learn and progress at a pace that suits them. As a small club, our resources have

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Finalist in tennis club of the year 2023

August 10, 2023

Congrats to our tennis whānau whose hard work over the last year has seen Ōtaki Sports Club shortlisted for Club of the Year in Tennis Central’s 2023 awards. This is the second year in a row that Ōtaki Sports Club has been up for the club of the year award. It comes on the back

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Ōtaki Kāeaea hit the heights of Div 1

July 14, 2023

Ōtaki’s women’s football team, Ōtaki Kāeaea, have been promoted to Division 1 of the Wellington Women’s Capital league … what an awesome story of hard work and success! Here’s a good write-up from Ōtaki Today (July 2023) of how the team got there.

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Te reo Māori served up in tennis

July 13, 2023

Our tennis whānau had a big push in the summer of 2022/2023 getting te reo Māori normalised, and more widely used, in the sport and we hope to do the same again this coming summer season. Congrats to Heitia, Emma and Jota for their awesome story-telling in the latest Ōtaki Today to highlight what the

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Senior tennis club champs winners

May 29, 2023

We had a fantastic display of tennis in the finals of the 2023 senior club champs on the weekend.Congrats to all the players for their skill and efforts under pressure, and their great sportmanship (sportspersonship?!) Congrats, too, to Emma Whiterod for her clean sweep in all three women’s finals: singles, doubles and mixed doubles!! Results

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Junior tennis club champs an historic first

April 17, 2023

The club’s first junior tennis champs this century were held last month. Here’s a good write-up about the event from Ōtaki Today.

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Senior tennis club champs underway

March 22, 2023

The draws for the 2023 senior tennis club champs are out. You can find them here: https://otakisportsclub.co.nz/tennis-club-champs-2023/ Good luck to all the players!

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Last goal wins 🤣 Thanks for the great write-up Manakau and yep fair play a pearler of a final goal from your team. The 7 we scored beforehand not too shabby either 😁 ... See MoreSee Less

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The football season is underway, and Ōtaki Purutaitama began its 2024 Division 1 season with a 6-1 win over Kāpiti Coast United Sopranos at Haruātai Park on Saturday.Te Hau Cook scored three goals and Travis Robertson also scored three goals.In Division 2, the Ōtaki Puru Master Blasters also kicked off in style with a 4-2 win on Saturday, also at home, against Waikanae Hawks. ... See MoreSee Less

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What an epic Sunday! A beautiful day and beautiful Ōtaki Sports Club people 🤩 celebrating tennis at the senior club champs finals afternoon.First up yesterday, Jackie Gould and Hannah Grimmett took out the women's doubles title against Leonie Campbell and Jodie Lawson in a fantastic display of quality tennis from both teams.Next up the men's doubles, and the winners from the past two years Callan Nikora and Pātaka Moore took out the title to make it three in a row in a tight three-setter against Tom Caines and Craig Eves.Jackie and Hannah were on court again for the women's singles final with Jackie taking the title -- after a tight first set Jackie pulled away in the second to become a double champion, following her earlier doubles win.In the last main draw final of the afternoon, Callan Nikora and Emma Whiterod took home the Whiterod Whānau trophy for mixed doubles with a straight sets win over Craig Eves and Leonie Campbell.Congrats also to Terri Grimmett beating Jessica Wilkinson in the women's singles plate final; and to Isaac Cant and Travis Robertson beating Andrew Martin and Anthony Bazalo in the men's doubles plate final.Meredith Evans and Mike Lean won the mixed doubles plate by default. Terri Grimmett and Jo Nikora won the women's doubles plate by default. There was no result in the men's singles plate.Yesterday was simply the best advertisement for Ōtaki tennis -- both on-court and upstairs in the 'grandstand'. Roll on tennis 2025!🎾😃😍🎾 ... See MoreSee Less

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The first of our senior tennis club champs finals was held today with Callan Nikora and Tom Caines battling it out for the 2024 men's singles title.Callan took the match 6-4, 6-0 with some big serving and ground strokes from both players, and an exciting match for the spectators.Tomorrow starting at 12.15pm, we have women's doubles, followed by men's doubles, then women's singles and finally mixed doubles.The plate women's singles and plate men's doubles will also be played.Come on down tomorrow and enjoy an exciting afternoon of tennis. 😀🎾😀🎾 ... See MoreSee Less

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Here's the timetable for this weekend's tennis finals 😃🎾If you're playing, best wishes; and if you're not playing, do keep some time free to come along and watch some exciting matches.SATURDAY1pm:--- Ct 2 -- Men's singles -- Callan vs Tom C--- --- --- ---SUNDAY12.15pm:--- Ct 2 — women’s doubles – Hannah / Jackie vs tbc1.30pm:--- Ct 2 — men’s doubles – Tom / Craig vs Callan / Pataka2.45pm:--- Ct 2 — women’s singles -- Hannah vs Jackie--- Ct 3 — women’s plate singles -- Terri vs Jess4pm:--- Ct 2 — mixed doubles – Callan / Emma vs Craig / Leonie--- Ct 3 — men’s plate doubles – Isaac / Travis vs Andrew / Anthony ... See MoreSee Less

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