Hobart Real Tennis Club

The Clothier Cup is a biennial match between junior teams from Australia and the USA.  The junior teams are composed of Under 26 players from both nations with teams usually comprising of 4 members. Historically the HRTC has contributed an abundance of junior players to the Clothier with the majority of the current crop of [...]

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The Ladies World Championship will be held in Melbourne from Sunday 8 to Saturday 14 May 2011. RMTC & ARTA have advised that while the World Championship itself is designed for the best players, events have been included during that week  to suit all standards of women players, with B and C Grade Singles & [...]

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A fortnight ago the Hobart team of PETE BOYLES, HILTON BOOTH, PAT DUNNE and GRAEME BRADFIELD tarried forth to the RAT district of Ballarat for the annual match against the best of Ballarat under the team slogan (and appropriately designed t-shirts) WHACKARAT. The Ballarat team consisted of DAN WILLIAMS, DAVID PARKER, WAYNE SPRING, MICHAEL WILLIAMS [...]

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At the President’s Cup dinner on Saturday night, Alistair Curley generously donated a framed colour photograph of the world championship that was held in Melbourne in May of this year. Taken on the Melbourne court, in the front row are the World Champion Rob Fahey and his Challenger Steve Virgona, the members of the successful [...]

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There was a “presidential suite” at the 2010 President’s Cup dinner in Hobart, with the two incumbent presidents in the company of 8 former Melbourne and Hobart Presidents. Not wanting to waste the collective experience of the assembled Presidents, they were invited to share the worst or most embarrassing event of their Presidency. Over the [...]

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In December last year, the Hobart members awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Club to Andrew Kemp. This event was celebrated at the President’s Cup dinner on Saturday 21 August. Owen Guest, the President of the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, paid tribute to Andrew Kemp’s contribution to tennis. John Ramsay HRTC President read the citation [...]

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The 2010 President’s Cup dinner was a memorable evening for many reasons. The company was of course outstanding with 45 Hobart members and partners joining the party of 15 from Melbourne who had travelled to Hobart for the President’s Cup weekend. The occasion also marked the Hobart celebration of the awarding of Honorary Life Membership [...]

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A strong RMTC team visited Hobart for the annual President’s Cup handicap singles and doubles tournament between the two Clubs. While Hobart put a large number of players on court, strength in numbers was no match for the experience of the Melbourne team. The Melbourne playing contingent was Iain Buchanan, Annabelle Guest, Owen Guest, Evelyn [...]

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While it was bitterly cold outside, new members, Don Armstrong, Patrick Bradfield, Bob Brewer, Martyn Hagan, Will Joscelyne, David Parham, Andrew Scobie, Asher Scobie and Kevin Starke enjoyed a warm Club welcome drink in the Butler Room last Friday night. They were joined by members of the Committee, some visiting Melbourne players and their hosts [...]

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