Lucy Hall and Poppy Fisher were super encouraging when they played Poppys good friends Ashley and Hannah Terry.

Ash and Hannah are playing in their first comp and they will continue to improve every week.

Serving is always the key so practise up girls and you’ll match it with all the other pairings.

Patrick Simpson was also heard calling words of encouragement and praise for his opponent Zavier Jones who is also a first time comp participant and still learning the court positioning.

Pat won their match 3/1 while Victoria Simpson and Kalvin Dargin played a three all draw.

Patrick and Victoria then combined well to take the doubles 4/1.

Tom Rix and Jacques van Wyk scored a 17/6 win over Thomas Simpson and Sam Riley last week. Sam scored all six games for his team with a 6/2 win over Jacques.

Jack Greenland and Mitch Wirth are combining well and were a little too consistent for Tarlei Glastonbury and Kelsey Mann last week 17/4.

In a close match Ruby Wilson and Anabelle vanWyk just scraped past Henry Rice and Nate Harrison ten games to six.

PJ McPherson and Mitch Boggs had three close matches with Declan Quade and Sam Westcott winning 11/7 while Elena Glastonbury and Anna Davis enjoyed a 9/2 win against Jordan Mann and Adi Terry.

The Red groups always provide plenty of entertainment on the front courts for families and spectators alike.

It was Rory Fisher last week who stole the prize for entertainment when he could hardly contain his excitement after winning all six games in his match with Lachie Orr. Lachie didn’t have his radar on last week and way too much power for the red court.

Daisy Rice and Charlie Rix had a rippa match with Daisy scoring a 4/3 win while Daisy and Rory combined to take the doubles 3/1.

Jono Wilkinson is showing he is more than ready for competition tennis and enjoying the challenge each week.

Jono had a 6/0 win against Adam Smede and then combined with Anna Orr to score a 3/2 win over Adam and Cooper Jones.

Yellow division groups are getting on with their business each week and settling in to playing a set of singles and a full set of doubles.

It is hoped that everyone is giving best efforts and showing positive behaviours each week.

Xander Macgregor had a 6/2 win over Nick McPherson while Will Rix turned the tables with a marathon 6/5 over Sam Rivett in a great match boys.

Xander and Sam then scored a 6/3 win in the doubles to take the victory two sets to one.

Tia Dunn and Faith Clarke scored a two sets to one win over Ella McColl and Jess Towns while Ethan Hunt and Lachie Unger hardly got a sweat up against Harry Simpson and Coen Glastonbury who both looked a little weary last week.

Nia Boggs worked hard to defeat Mitch Unger 6/4 while Hayden Arndell had to have all his concentration skills on full alert in his match against the chatterbox Marcus Moss 6/3.

Mitch and Marcus almost got the doubles set going down in a tiebreaker.

Tomorrow will see all the courts in action with the Western Primary Schools trials. Forty four girls and boys from as far afield as Lithgow, Dubbo, Bathurst, Blayney, Orange and including Lachlan reps will all battle out for five places in the team.

Parkes will be represented by Faith Clarke, Tia Dunn and Ella McColl from Parkes Public and Grace Dunford from Parkes East in the girls while Will Rix, Henry Kross from Parkes East along with Tyson Lennox and Flynn Thompson from Parkes Public who will be giving their best efforts in the boys division.

Today will see Jake Magill and Ben Evans playing their first round matches in the NSW combined High Schools individual championships. Jake and Ben have been putting in some good court time over the past month and primed for a big week.

Jake goes into the event seeded 11th but should perform well above his seeding due to being out injured for the past four months and losing a lot of ranking points. Jake has a BYE first round and will open his encounter at 11.30am this morning.

Ben doesn’t play all the tournament circuit like many of these boys in the 128 player draw so doesn’t carry ranking points into the event.

Neve the less Ben is striking the ball fairly well and will take on a Metro player at 8.30am this morning and if successful will play seventh seed Ben Butler from North West region in the second round at 11.30am.

Both boys are competing for a top 16 finish to qualify them for the next stage of NSW Pizzey Cup selection at the end of March.

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