Seniors Tennis to come back to Shepparton

Posted on 13 Aug 2017

Please note: this is an old article

It was published in August 2017, so the information may be out-of-date.

Greater Shepparton was recently announced for the second time as host of the Tennis Seniors Australia, Australian Teams Carnival and Australian Individual Championships to be held from 6 -18 January, 2019.

The Tennis Seniors Australia Championships are held annually and are hosted by the State organisations. The championships are held over two weeks, with the Australian Teams Carnival team being event held in the first week across over 50 courts which will be hosted between the permanent Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club courts with temporary grass courts to be built on the ovals at Mooroopna Recreation Reserve. The Australian Individual Championships will be held in the second week at Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club.

Greater Shepparton Mayor Dinny Adem said “this event continues our tradition of hosting major tennis events. We’ve recently hosted the 2014 Country Week Tennis, 2015 Asia Oceania Junior Davis Cup and Federation Cup Qualifying Ties and 2016 Tennis Seniors Australia events. The Shepparton Lawn Tennis scene will be buzzing again in January 2019”.

The Championships will see over 1000 visitors from around Australia and overseas spend time and money in our region.

For more information see the attached media release.