What an extraordinary Easter school holiday period it has been for our LifeTime Tennis community!
Across five major tournaments — the Toowoomba Easter Gold Cup, Coops JDS, Ashley Cooper Open, Mooloolaba, and the prestigious Claycourt Nationals — our players showed incredible heart, commitment and skill. We are incredibly proud of every single player who stepped out on the court and competed.
To everyone who competed these holidays — thank you. Tournaments take courage, preparation and resilience, and every one of you brought that and more. Whether you won your first round or went all the way to a final, the experience you’ve gained this break will be invaluable.
Now let’s celebrate some of our standout results! 🏆
🏆 Toowoomba Easter Gold Cup
A strong contingent of LifeTime players travelled to Toowoomba with Marc and Tess for our annual tournament tour, and they delivered:
- Tess Caldicott — Open Women’s Doubles Winner 🥇 and Mixed Doubles Finalist
- Yihan Liu — Open Men’s Singles Finalist
- Jacob Cropper — Open Men’s Semifinalist
- Carrigan Hartley — Open Men’s Semifinalist & Mixed Doubles Finalist
- Arkin Patel — Open Men’s Quarterfinalist
- Aru Takahashi — Open Men’s Semifinalist
- Jonathon Hatzioannou — Matchplay Semifinalist
- Michael Huang — Matchplay Semifinalist
- Emily Reed — Open Women’s Quarterfinalist
🏆 Coops JDS
Some brilliant junior results at the JDS Club Coops event:
- Archie Li — 13 Boys Singles Winner 🥇
- Caitlan Gorgan — 13 Girls Singles Winner 🥇
- Alisa Ma — 11 Girls Singles Winner 🥇
- Xavier Arnold — 13 Boys Singles Finalist
- Jessica Jeong — 13 Girls Singles 3rd Place
- Emmi Li — 13 Girls Singles 5th Place
🏆 Ashley Cooper Open
A standout week of tennis at the Ashley Cooper events:
- Ethan Connelly — Open Men’s Singles Winner 🥇
- Jake Karathra — Open Men’s Singles Finalist
- Grace Cadwallader — Open Women’s Semifinalist
- Emilia Scott — Open Women’s Consolation Winner 🥇
- Alisa Ma — 10’s Greenball 2nd Place — remarkable result competing up!
- Tess Caldicott — Open Women’s Doubles Semifinalist
- Ella Idzikowski — Open Women’s Doubles Semifinalist
Ashley Cooper Age Events
- Xavier Arnold — 12 Boys Singles Winner 🥇
- Bentley Kang — 16 Boys Singles Finalist & Doubles Winner 🥇
- Dylan Bennett — 14 Boys 3rd Place & Doubles Winner 🥇
- Daniel Choi — 14 Boys Quarterfinalist & Doubles Winner 🥇
- Daniel Sun — 12 Boys Semifinalist
- Jonathon Hatzioannou— 14 Boys Quarterfinalist
- Daniel Alcazaren— 14 Boys Doubles Finalist
- Amy Garnes — Doubles Finalist
- Amelia Jarp — 10’s Girls Quarterfinalist & Doubles Finalist
🏆 Mooloolaba
Another tournament, another incredible showing from our players:
- Daniel Alcarazen — 14 Boys Singles Winner 🥇 & Doubles Winner 🥇 (also won at Elite Tennis International!)
- Jonathan Zhang — 16 Boys Singles Winner 🥇 & Doubles Winner 🥇
- Dylan Bennett — 14 Boys Semifinalist
- Tom Deighton — 16 Boys 3rd Place
- Dane Boxall & Murray Nangle — 10 Boys Doubles Winners 🥇
- Amy Garnes — 12 Girls Semifinalist & Doubles Finalist
- Mila Markova-Tsiomik — 12 Girls Semifinalist
- Kaden Boxall — 12 Boys Semifinalist
- Hugo Riedel — 12 Boys Quarterfinalist
🏆 Claycourt Nationals & Canberra J500
Finally, some truly elite results to cap off an amazing break:
- Thoma Bogatyrev — 12 Boys National Winner 🥇🏆 & Doubles National Winner
- Rafe Croll — 12 Boys Doubles National Winner 🥇🏆
- Samantha Sun — 14 Girls Canberra J500 Winner 🥇, Claycourt Nationals Quarterfinalist & Doubles Semi-finalist
Thoma and Rafe winning at the Claycourt Nationals is an exceptional achievement — this is one of the most prestigious junior events on the Australian calendar. Congratulations to them and their families!
What a holiday break. We are so proud of the effort, sportsmanship and results shown by our entire LifeTime community. These results don’t happen without the hard work players put in week after week — and it’s incredibly rewarding to see it pay off on the court.
Term 2 is now underway, and we can’t wait to build on this momentum together.
