Tennis

Robbie King Mina Zhang

Muhan Cui & Mina Zhang

SPORTS

Tennis

The 2022 Tennis season got off to a great start in Term 1, with Tūrama setting the scene for some exciting Premier Tennis matches.

Our Premier Boys, led by Captain Finn Burridge, played in the Auckland Premier division. The level of Tennis was outstanding with competitive games throughout the season, including wins against Macleans College, Saint Kentigern 2 and a draw with Botany Downs College. Our Premier Girls team, made up of predominantly Middle School students, played in the Auckland A2 division, finishing the season with two wins.

The Senior B Girls and Boys teams played in the A3 Auckland division on Saturday mornings, both finishing their season with wins at home, placing 3rd in their grades.

In the North Harbour competition, our three boys and girls teams played on a Monday afternoon, having a lot of fun throughout the season, with our girls finishing 2nd in the A grade!

This year our Tennis Beginners Programme ran on Tuesday afternoons in two groups, with the number of participants doubling from the previous year.

In Term 1, for the first time, we have introduced the year-round Kristin “Lavie Tennis Academy” in Tūrama. These lessons are aimed at a small group of our competitive Tennis players, with each training session targeting specific tactical, mental and physical aspects of the game. We look forward to seeing this programme develop over the course of 2022.

The Auckland Secondary School Tennis Champion of Champions Tournament was played over four days from 7 March. Eight Kristin students competed in eight singles and three doubles events. Both boys and girls had some great wins in the first and second rounds with Finn Burridge, our Sports Prefect and Captain of the Premier Boys team (Senior Singles), Muhan Cui and Mina Zhang (Intermediate Girls Doubles), Jamie King and Joey Li (Intermediate Boys Doubles) and Finn and Robbie King (Senior Boys Doubles) making it through to the semi-finals. Congratulations to Muhan and Mina, who then went on to win the Intermediate Girls Doubles title with a thrilling triumph against Macleans College in the final. The scores were tied one set all but our girls came through in the tie-breaker to win 10 points to 6! Finn and Robbie made it to the finals after a nail-biting semi-final against King’s College. Playing Saint Kents in a brilliant final that was close all the way, the Kristin boys went down 7/6, 4/6, 10/8. This match was played in fine spirit and was an absorbing contest highlighted by some amazing rallies.

We look forward to seeing more Tennis action in Term 4.