MBTC News and Upcoming Events

Please read below for some important news about a new parent/child tournament, mixed doubles champs and some info about local tournaments.

Upcoming Events

Fri Oct 27th Junior Club night 6pm tomorrow night (every Friday T4)
Sat Oct 28th Community Hot Shots Play 9:30am this Saturday (every Sat T4)
Sun Oct 29th Senior Doubles Champs this Sunday (rain day 5th Nov)

Sun Nov 12th Senior Mixed Doubles Champs (rain day 19th Nov)

Sun Nov 26th Parent/Junior or Senior/Junior Tournament

Sun 3rd December 2023 Rose Bowl Tournament

Wed 6 December Xmas Club night

Keeping in touch - FB, Instagram, WhatsApp

If you haven't already, please follow us on FB and Instagram to keep in touch about what's going on at the club. This includes details about which Interclub teams are playing each Saturday at the club, event reminders, cancellations etc. To join click on the links below.

For those of you who don't dablle in social media we have recently set up a new MBTC WhatsApp Community Group. This is just for information about upcoming events, reminders, news and cancellations. This is not a chat group and people can't chat so you won't be inundated with messages, if you would like to join please let us know and we can add you to the group.

We send all important information by e-mail, if you are not receiving e-mails, please check your junk box for Clubspark e-mails.

Men's & Women's Doubles Champs

Men's and Womens games are starting on Sunday from 11am. Finals are due to start from 4pm. We will be posting regular updates on social media. Hopefully the sun will be out and the bar will defiantly be open so come down for some excellent tennis viewing.

It's not too late to enter the Mixed Doubles champs being held on 12th November. To enter click here and just enter the mixed doubles info.

Parent/Child Tournament 26th November

Friday Junior Club night in Term 4

Friday night Junior club night has now started. Running every Friday night from 6pm. Our head coach Jono is on court with the kids between 6-7pm.

Open to kids of all ages up to 18 years old. Kids of similar ages play together.

This is a fabulous opportunity for the kids to come and play some fun tennis and meet a bunch of other kids. It's also a great way to come and chill on a Friday night and meet other parents in a relaxed environment whilst enjoying a slice of pizza and a beverage of your choice on our sunny deck.

If your child is a preschooler or new to tennis you will need to be on court with them.

If your child is not a member but you would like to come and give it a go please e-mail us, we would love them to come and try it out.

Junior Interclub

We have kids of all ages that are wanting to join an interclub team in T1 2024, if your child is interested, please let us know now so we can work towards getting kids of similar ages and abilities into teams.

We are specifically looking for the following:

Girls Under 18yrs team
Boys Under 14yrs Beginners team
Girls Under 12yrs Team

Please get in contact if you think your child is interested info@missionbaytennis.co.nz

Thank you Doug & Sandy Hayr

From humble beginnings at the very start when Doug and Sandy Hayr secured our first set of Community Play / Hot shot equipment, they have worked tirelessly over many years giving their time on countless Saturday mornings, with the help of volunteers, to steadily grow the numbers of our young participants.

The first week of Community Play this term we had 32 budding young tennis players on court for the first session of the season!!!

After many years of dedicated volunteerism to build the junior base, they have decided to hang up their Hot Shots rackets and hand over the mantle to the next bunch of volunteers to continue driving this junior initiative.

Whilst I am sure we will still see them at the courts on the odd Saturday MBTC would like to extend a huge thanks to Doug and Sandy for their immense contribution who have poured their hearts and souls into this programme.

Hotshots 2023

Hotshots 2017

Hotshots 2023

Hotshots 2017

We need two volunteers each week to keep this program running. If you would like to follow in their amazing footsteps and lend a hand with hotshots on the odd Saturday morning - even if its one Sat morning for an hour a term, please let us know! We encourage our Juniors to get involved.

Important Club Reminders

Please help us to keep the clubhouse clean and tidy by doing your dishes at the end of the day.
If you have access to the bar and regularly use it, you are more than welcome to top it up if you have a few moments.
If you are playing with a guest, please make sure you include them in your club spark booking for $10/hr.
A list of jobs that need doing around the clubhouse are posted on the noticeboard. We would welcome and encourage any help completing these.
Please make sure if you cannot make your booking for any reason - including weather - you cancel your booking. We have Neighbours who message Jan and Vaughan any time the courts are empty, and the lights are left on. Please save them a grumpy evening text.