Two U14 Tahitian tennis players, Hiva Kelley and Mia Chang have been selected for the U!4 GSPDP/ITF International Team to Florida in December 2022. This is on the back of their outstanding results in the recently completed POJC. They will…

The Australian Government and Tennis Australia are working together to provide more opportunities for women and girls in the Pacific region to learn and grow through tennis. PacificAus Sports, the Australian Government’s elite sports pathways program, is supporting the Tennis…

Colin Sinclair has won his 3rd Doubles Title in 2022 at the Men’s ITF 25 Futures Event in Darwin. Partnering with Kyle Seelig (USA), they beat the Australian pairing of Tai Sach/ Zaharije-Zak Talic 6-4,6-4. Colin Sinclair had earlier this…

Barbara Stubbings, the President of the Papua New Guinea Tennis Federation writes that “A new partnership between Tennis Australia and the Oceania tennis Federation (OTF) with the support of the Australian Government was launched at the closing ceremony of the…

The Referee for the POJC, Pat O’Rourke, writes “that after being cancelled for the past two years the Pacific Oceania Junior Championships were finally held in Lautoka in September, delayed a month from their normal timeslot due to the slow…

Following the tsunami that devastated Tonga on the 18th January 2022, the OTF reached out to Tennis New Zealand to see how we could collectively assist Tennis Tonga with equipment to help them rebuild their tennis programmes. Ali Telford (Tennis…

The 2022 ITF North Pacific Regional Qualifying Championships were held at the Guam National Tennis Centre from the 25th-29th July. 44 Players from Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia competed in the Championships. The final…

From August 1st to 12th Sereima Lalavanus Debelavu (Lala) from Fiji took part in a Coaching Beginner and Intermediate Course (CBI) in Cambodia alongside coaches from Cambodia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Timor Leste.Tutors on the course were: Amir Borghei (ITF), Gary…

Pat O’Rourke writes: “After being cancelled for the past three years the 19th edition of the Oceania Closed Junior Championships was held in Australia at the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre in its normal August week. All previous events had…

The Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team of Colin Sinclair (NMI), Clement Mainguy (VAN), Matthew Stubbings (PNG), Brett Baudinet (CI), Gillian Osmont (TAH) and Aymeric Mara (VAN-captain) have not only been promoted to the Group II Play-Offs in 2023 but have…