Greater Brisbane Junior Tennis Association Inc.

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Season 2, 2024 Entries Now Closed

Entries for Season 2, 2024 are now closed. An email with team Draws and the seasons information will be emailed out to Players and Parents on Monday 29 July.  Fixtures for Season 2 will commence on Saturday 3 August at UQ and QTC. 

Season 2, 2024 GBJT Grading Day

Season 2, 2024 GBJT Grading Day for new players will be held at the Queensland Tennis Centre (QTC) on Sunday 21 July 2024 between 3pm to 5pm. 

GBJT Season 2 2024 - Entries Now Open

Entries for Season 2, 2024 are now open for New and Returning Players. Please complete the enrolments on-line. 

GBJT raffle results

Our GBJT Finals’ Day Raffle, with prizes including a framed shirt signed by the 2024 Australian Billie Jean King Cup team, a Head tennis racquet, vouchers for QTC Pro-shop and the hire of Pat Rafter Arena and a variety of Head products was drawn after the Presentation of Trophies. Congratulations to our winners 

First Prize - Owen Ho

Second Prize - Luke Sartor

Third Prize - Haru Lee

Fourth Prize - FinnnAdendorff

Season 1 Award Winners

Congratulations to our Sportsmanship and Most Improved Award winners!

GBJT Award Winners
  Sportsmanship  Most Improved Player 
Pennant D1 Lachlan Butler  Zachary Dimmick
Pennant D2 Bobby Xu Elaine Wang
Pennant D3 Blue Thomas Holder Alexander Raymond
Pennant D3 Green Veronica Barros Seve Ahlholm
Level 1/2 Alison Cao Lucie Yan
Level 3 Blue Eden Crockford Charlotte Evans
Level 3 Red Cheha Rhee Imogen Wells
Level 4 Alex Chen Tse Henry Telford

 

Finals Day - Season 1, 2024

A beautiful winters day for our finals competition for GBJT Season 1 junior fixtures. Well done to all our players for the season and well done to our winning teams - results in table below. 
 

GBJT Finals Day - Results
  Winner Runner-Up Best of the Rest
Pennant D1 Stars Coments Meteors 
Pennant D2 Eagles Condors Hawkes
Pennant D3 Blue Tornadoes  Cyclones  Hurricanes
Pennant D3 Green Opals Diamonds Rubies
Level 1/2 Panthers Lions Tigers
Level 3 Blue Koalas Emus Wallabies 
Level 3 Red Porsches Mercedes Lexus
Level 4 Labradors Terriers Beagles

 

Season 1 - Finals Day Raffle

The GBJT Finals’ Day Raffle will be drawn after the Presentation of trophies and awards.  The prizes include tickets to the a framed GBJT shirt signed by the Australian Billie Jean King Cup team, a Head Tennis Racquet, Head products, and vouchers for hire of Pat Rafter Arena and the QTC Pro-shop.  Tickets can be bought on Saturday afternoon or via email this week. 

Season 1 Family BBQ and Presentation of Trophies and Awards

The Presentation of Awards and Trophies will start about 4:30 pm.  The list of the award winners for the Sportsmanship and Most Improved Player Awards, will be sent out later in the week.  Players on bye from the teams in the Finals are invited to attend the presentation to collect their trophies.

GBJT will hold a free BBQ for players and their families, starting about 2:00 pm.  Players not playing on Finals’ Day are invited along to watch the matches and share the BBQ. 

GBJT parents have volunteered to cook and serve the sausage sizzle and if you can help with these tasks on Saturday, please see Peter on the day.

GBJT Season 1, 2024 Finals Day

GBJT Season 1 Finals Day will be held this Saturday 8 June, 2024.  A reminder that all teams will be playing at the Queensland Tennis Centre (QTC) at Tennyson and most teams will start at the earlier time of 1:00 pm.

We wish all our players and parents an enjoyable days tennis.

Season 1 2024 Semi-Finals

The GBJT Semi-Finals will be played this Saturday 1 June at the normal locations of UQ and QTC.  We wish all our teams the best of luck.  

GBJT 2024 Annual Club Doubles Tournament

The 2024 Annual Club Doubles Tournament was held this morning on a beautiful autumn day. Our 46 players had a great mornings of round robin tennis and some very close scores to determine our winners and runners-up on the day. Thanks to all the parents for supporting our players. 
 

2024 Annual Club Doubles Tournament
Level Winners Runners-Up
Pennant Red

Zac Dimmick and Fynn Henderson

Sebastien Goldsworthy and Fenton Skinner
Pennant Blue

Lachlan Kua and Cohen Parbhakar-Fox

Brandon Kua and Michael Piao

Level 1/2 Samuel Lurje and Vishaal Maharaj

Oliver Freeman and Archie Parbhakar-Fox

Level 3

Owen Ho and Sherwin Mooten

Jonas Motuzas and Rubin Rhee

Level 4 Charlie Paschkewitz and Timothy Wu

Martin Lopez Naranjo and Austin Wells

 

2024 GBJT Annual General Meeting (AGM)

The GBJT Auual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday 23 March 2024. The meeting starts at 12.30pm and is held at Saint Lucy Cafe at the UQ Tennis Centre - all members welcome to attend. 

We are seeking the services of a volunteer Treasurer to take on this role. Please see Peter or Peta if you can help with this?

Season 1, 2024

Season 1, 2024 is well underway and trust everyone is enjoying their tennis!  The GBJT Club shirts were distributed to our players last Saturday with remaining shirts to be given out this Saturday.  If you have not received yours please let us know.  

GBJT Season 1, 2024

GBJT Season 1, 2024 tennis fixtures will commence on Saturday 24 February 2024 at UQ (2pm-5pm) and QTC (230pm-530pm).  Emails have been sent out too all our players and captains on Sunday - if you have not received yours please let us know. We wish everyone an enjoyable season of junior tennis fixtures with GBJT. 

Season 1, 2024 - Entries Closed

GBJT Season 1, 2024 entries are now closed. Team draws and information for the new season of GBJT junior tennis fixtures will be emailed out on Monday 19 February 2024 with our first round matches to commence at QTC and UQ on Saturday 24 February 2024. 

GBJT Family BBQ and Raffle

Special thanks to our supporters and volunteers who helped with our family BBQ on finals day. 
 

We appreciate the support we receive from Head Sporting Products, Tennis Queensland and The QTC for our prizes and awards. 

Our raffle winners were:

1st Prize - Henry McGuire

2nd Prize - Yuta Hosaka

3rd Prize - Scott Whitton 

4th Prize - Lauren Mitchell 

 

GBJT Season 2, 2023 Finals Day

GBJT celebrated our finals day for season 2, 2023 at the QTC on Saturday 11 November. With over 160 juniors playing this season, we all enjoyed watching the finals and well done to everyone. The team results including our sportsmanship and most improved awards are set out below. 
 

GBJT Season 2, 2023 Team Results
Level Winner Runner-Up Best of the Rest Sportsmanship  Most Improved 
Pennant Div 1 Comets Meteors Stars Fynn Henderson  Bayden Farren-Price
Pennant Div 2 Kestrels Condors Kites Olivia Dry Alec Say
Pennant Div 3 Blue Typhoons Tornados Cyclones Chloe Miller Emily Low
Pennant Div 3 Green Topaz Emeralds Sapphires Alexa Sheehy Lachlan Tan
Level 1/2 Panthers Tigers Leopards Masela Malagui  Aaron Zhang
Level 3 Blue Mercedes Lexus Peugeots Sophie Huynh  Jacob Spencer
Level 3 Red Wombats Koalas Kangaroos  Joseph Klopper Eden Crockford
Level 4 Wolfhounds Labradors Kelpies Miheli Perera  Caolan Moran

 

GBJT Finals Day - Season 2, 2023

Dear Players and Parents,

The GBJT Finals will be played  this Saturday, 11th  November, with all GBJT teams playing at the  Queensland Tennis Centre  at Tennyson.  Play will start at the earlier time of  1:00 pm.

The Presentation of Awards and Trophies will start about 4:30 pm.  The list of the award winners for the Sportsmanship and Most Improved Player Awards, will be sent out later in the week.  Players on bye from the teams in the Finals are invited to attend the presentation to collect their trophies.

GBJT will hold a free BBQ for players and their families, starting about 2:00 pm.  Players not playing on Finals’ Day are invited along to watch the matches and share the BBQ. 

GBJT parents have volunteered to cook and serve the sausage sizzle and if you can help with these tasks on Saturday, please see Peter on the day.

The GBJT Finals’ Day Raffle will be drawn after the Presentation of trophies and awards.  The prizes include tickets to the Brisbane International Tournament, a Head Tennis Racquet, Head products, and vouchers for hire of Pat Rafter Arena and the QTC Pro-shop.  Tickets can be bought on Saturday afternoon or via email this week.

We wish all teams the very best of luck for the Finals!

Kind regards, Peter, Peta and Eira.

GBJT Club Annual Singles Tournament

A sunny and hot day for our 60 players in the annual GBJT club singles tournament at UQ today. Some great matches and most importantly good sportsmanship on the day from everyone. Congratulations to all who played and well done to our winners and runners-up as set out below. 
 

2023 GBJT Club Singles Tournament
Level Winner Runner-Up
Pennant Red Craig Welch Luke Williams
Pennant Blue Fenton Skinner Thomas Gower
Level 1 Boys Augustus Sepulcri Cohen Parbhakar-Fox
Level 1 Girls Masala Malaga Charlotte Sparks
Level 3 Boys John Paul Barros Archie Parbhakar-Fox
Level 3 Girls Cheha Rhee Sara Webb
Level 4 Boys Sicheng Yan Bow Yu
Level 4 Girls Amelia Webb Charlotte Evans 

 

Season 2 - Week 2!

Dear Players and Parents,

We trust all teams are organised and ready to play for Week 2 of GBJT tomorrow and welcome all the players who were on bye last Saturday.  Please contact your team captain if you are unsure if you are playing.

Enjoy your day and any questions or concerns please let Peter, Peta or Eira know. 

Calendar

01 Jul
Enrolments Open for Season 2, 2024 - New and Returning Players
21 Jul
Grading Day for Season 2, 2024 - New Players - QTC 3pm-5pm
21 Jul
Season 2, 2024 Enrolments for New and Returning Players - Closed
03 Aug
Season 2, 2024 - Fixtures Commence at QTC and UQ
20 Oct
GBJT Annual Members Singles Tournament - UQ
02 Nov
Season 2, 2024 - Semi-Finals Day
09 Nov
Season 2, 2024 - Finals Day, Family BBQ, Presentation of Trophies, Awards and Raffle