BTC versus MCC May 2011
As you are probably aware the MCC isn’t only about cricket and footy. The world’s largest club also fields teams in other sports including real tennis. The Demons got smacked
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I thought I’d already played the 2010 doubles in February 2011 but now Brett tells me I had to play in another 2010 doubles event in May 2011. I
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Like many members of our club I didn’t get an invitation to The Royal Wedding. I had a prior engagement anyway but then we already have our own royalty …
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BTC’s Premier Series Pennant for 2011 is off and running – with some great matches having already been played. Results are listed below: March 17: M Hartnell def D Williams
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At the end of the 10 match summer season the ladder stood at: 1 Annie Strange & Alison Dugdale 31pts 2 Terry McDonough & Rohan Bryan 30 pts 3 Robert
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“The Cone’s gone pear-shaped!” … you could feel Brett’s anguish even as you admired the aptness of his geometrical metaphor. Oh dear … for the third year in a row
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Last year Consumer Affairs sprung Brett McFarlane organising shonky tournaments on spare weekends and calling them BTC sanctioned events. Our recalcitrant club professional laughed at suggestions that it was a
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WIDMER BRADFIELD 2011 REPORT: ‘More Truth than the Facts Would Allow’, By Mark Hartnell BACK ROOM DEALINGS: We the good folk of Ballarat Tennis Club have hosted the best that
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Brett was looking particularly smug as he sat in the chaos of the pro shop. He’d managed to get 2008 and 2009 doubles played in 2010 and now the 2010
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The “Gold Nuggets” team ventured to RMTC in January to play the RMTC based Boomerang Cup with a fierce determination to take out the cup, and if that wasn’t to
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BTC was represented in the World Doubles Championships played at RMTC from February 1 to February 6. The overwhelming favourites are World numbers 1 and 2 Rob Fahey and Steve
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