Cottesloe captain Will Hann has declared the Tennis West State League is as robust because it ever has been as he prepares to aim to guide his membership to back-to-back males’s titles.
The state league roars again to life this weekend, with Cottesloe seeking to retain the boys’s title and Peppermint Grove the reigning champions within the girls’s division.
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With the boys’s competitors dropping from eight to 6 groups within the low season, Hahn stated he was anticipating a cut-throat competitors and that the standard would solely enhance upon final season.
“What’s exciting being cut down from eight to six teams this season is there’s not a fixture that’s weak; everyone is super strong, and anyone can beat anyone,” he stated.
“There’s a lot of fly-ins this season, which makes it all the more exciting, but that much more competitive as well. It’ll just depend on on who turns up on the day and then who performs on the day.”
With final season’s MVP Max Weir, in addition to Matt Burton, Scott Webster and Sam English all now abroad, Hahn stated it was going to be powerful to repeat.
“Last season, we managed to bring four or five individuals together in the same environment and just really feed off each other’s energy and create a culture that I don’t think I’d seen in its state league teams prior,” he stated.
“(This year) we’re gelling and developing that culture and chemistry between four individuals, we’re basically starting from scratch.
“We’re all supper confident in our own abilities as individuals, but four individuals aren’t going to win at this season.”
Reining girls’s MVP Lauren Nikoloski stated her Dalkieth’s crew camaraderie had been constructing steadily all through the low season and she or he was excited by the Dolphins’ potential.
Nikoloski stated regardless of profitable the league’s prime particular person honour final season, she nonetheless had a lot to enhance upon.
I took away some issues that I most likely want to enhance on relating to method, however final season was truly a significant success,” she stated.
“Winning MVP was a complete honour to me again, I’m really grateful to win that award. I guess it just exemplifies how much discipline and hard work I put into the whole season.”
The males’s State League season started in a single day on Friday, with UWA and Cottesloe battling it out on the clay courts below lights, whereas Blue Gum took on Alexander Park and Mt Lawley/Sorrento clashed with Peppermint Grove.
In the ladies’s league, Hensman Park and Royal Kings Park additionally performed on Friday evening, whereas Peppermint Grove start their season at house to Applecross on Saturday, as do Alexander Park and Dalkieth.
The Tennis West State League shall be streamed dwell and free all through the season on Streamer.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
