Our spring Social Comps will be starting as soon as the current round of restrictions are lifted – please find the registration form attached, please consider the dates tentative only, the actual start date is still to be decided

Another Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend has come and gone, and this time we were incredibly lucky to be able to go ahead with our 100th MIA Open, proudly (and gratefully) supported by our Gold Sponsor, Sunrice.

Congratulations of course go to the Open Singles Events Winners, Sam Fletcher (NSW) and Alison Tinworth (ALBY), Open Doubles Mens Winners Tom Byrne (SYD) and Jade Culph (ALBY) (Open Womens Event was not played) –

But the event that had everyone on the edge of their seats, was the Centenary Doubles – won by Andrew and Matt Condon

A huge thankyou goes to everyone involved in the organisation and running of this milestone event, and also to our sponsors. It’s a massive amount of work and the committee, as well as the tennis community at large is incredibly grateful.

For the full gallery, please click here

A huge thankyou to everyone who came along to support the club at the MIA Open Centenary Dinner.

There was an incredible amount of history, not only compiled by Lorraine Maxwell (who did an incredible job, thankyou!) but also in the history of everyone’s association with the club in some way over the decades.

The full gallery can be viewed here

1940s

“It is understood that Longobardi has been called up for military service.” That is the result
of the 1940’s Men’s Open Doubles.

This is the second in a series of historical articles written by Lorraine Maxwell who has been tirelessly digging back through the MIA Open archives. Thankyou Lorraine!

In the 1930’s players from around the region participated in the tournament. Tennis was a sporting and social event with articles in the paper describing the dance, band and venue after the tournament had concluded.

In 1932 the courts moved further down the street, to where the old ambulance station is towards McDonalds. There were 6 courts plus other around the town.

Jack Shannon won the Men’s Singles in 1933 & 1934, his deadly accuracy and sound play meant that he was able to come back from a 4-0 deficit to finally win 9-7 in an early round, then win the final easily.

This is the first in a series of historical articles written by Lorraine Maxwell who has been tirelessly digging back through the MIA Open archives. Thankyou Lorraine!

The first MIA Championship was held in November 1920.

It was either in response to local players going to Country Week in Sydney and then organising the event OR needing to have a tournament to qualify for Country Week.¹

Whichever way it happened it was an association of local tennis court owners who met in a school near the old cheese factory in Bagtown and decided to run this championship.

2021 MIA Open Centenary (+1) Planning Meeting

6:00pm at the Club House

Everyone welcome – there will be history of the competition dating back decades, event planning and more – see you there!