Players (L to R)
Codey Gunn, Akanksha Puli, Christopher Cox, Ruby Clayton

Wayne Arthurs Cup 2009

Ruby Clayton (NW North), Akanksha Puli (Fountain Gate), Codey Gunn (Fountain Gate) and Christopher Cox (Narre Warren) represented the BDTA in the Wayne Arthurs Cup at Kooyong on December 12-13, 2009. This competition is run by Tennis Victoria for players who are 10 & Under.

Despite a difficult draw, where we had to play last year’s winners (Waverley) in the round-robin stage, our team played fantastic tennis to win their round-robin group comfortably on the Saturday. They went through to play off for the top four places on Sunday.

L to R:
Codey Gunn, Christopher Cox, Wayne Arthurs,
Akanksha Puli, Ruby Clayton

In the semi-final, we lost in a close match to the eventual winners, and finished up coming 4th out of 17 regional teams. This is a fantastic effort by our youngest representative team – congratulations to these 4 young people for playing so well, and representing our association with great spirit and on-court behaviour. You did us proud!

Wayne Arthurs was present on Sunday afternoon to present certificates to all of the players.

Player Profile - Audrey Teo

Audrey Teo plays out of Berwick Tennis Club. She is currently in Grade 6 at Berwick Primary School and is 11 years of age. She was born on 28/09/1998 and started playing tennis when she was only 5 years old.
Her interests are tennis, golf and playing the piano. She is in her school band and also their rock band. Her aspiration if she can’t make it in tennis is to be a chef.
Her sporting achievements include the following recent ones:

Won the 10A Victorian Junior Pennant 2008 for Berwick District

Placed 6th in 2008 in the Frank Sedgeman Cup

Placed 3rd in 2008 in the Wayne Arthur’s Cup

Played in the Alicia Molik Cup in 2009 at Kooyong

Is a present team member of Section 3 for Berwick Tennis Club

Member of the Victorian Junior Pennant 2009 14/U Berwick District team

Part of the Serious Tennis Academy at Doveton

Audrey has an intensive training schedule. Audrey has a private coach, Justin Yeo and is part of tThe new Serious Tennis Academy in Doveton. There is lots of dedication and commitment from Audrey.

She says that she plays tennis so much because she likes it. Her best shot is her backhand, “it is snappy with lots of top spin”. Audrey also has an aggressive base line style of play.

Look out for this rising star!