The Bay of Plenty Under-12 tennis team won the Intra Regional Tennis Tournament. Photo / Supplied
A group of young local tennis players have shown their potential by beating their under-12 rivals.
Every year Waikato, Western Bay, Bay of Plenty (Rotorua and Whakatāne) and Tennis Eastern (Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay) contest the Intra Regional Competition. It is played in age groups 10 and under, 12
and under, 14 and under, 16 and under and 18 and under.
The 12s play for the Master Carvers Cup and it had been 11 years since Bay of Plenty last won it, but this year the boys and girls from Rotorua and Whakatāne claimed first place, on their home courts at the Rotorua Tennis Club.
The team was made up of Scarlett Dowland, Sophie Webber, Zeeah Waerea-Tamai, Sophie Twist, Tom Weston, Hayden Martin, Tom Yetsenga and Daniel Duyvesteyn.
Tennis Bay of Plenty junior co-ordinator Debra Dowland said the girls won all of their games, led by Scarlett and Sophie who had both played for the Waikato Bays regional team that competed in the National Teams event held in Christchurch in January.
