2023 UQ Student & Staff Tennis Championships

Entries are now open for the 2023 UQ Student & Staff Tennis Championships.

The tournament will be played on Sunday 22 October, Saturday 28 October and Sunday 29 October.

Entries close on Sunday, 15 October.

Entrants will be competing for over $600 in prizemoney and trophies - Prizemoney & trophies for the Student events and trophies for the Staff events.

The main Draw of the UQ Student Men's Singles and UQ Student Ladies' Singles will be played using a Knock-Out format on 28 & 29 October with a Qualifying Round-Robin on 22 October.

The UQ Staff events will be played using Round-Robin formats on Sunday 22 October.

Entry forms are available from the UQ Tennis Club or can be downloaded from this Website here.

Entries can be lodged on-line via the Tennis Australia Tournaments Website here.  

Note: When players go to enter on-line, they are asked to log-in using their Tennis Australia Competitive Player Profile log-in.  Players can check if they have a Tennis ID & Competitive Player Profile or they can create a Competitive Player Profile & Tennis ID & UTR link by going to:

https://www.tennis.com.au/competitiveplay/create-your-cpp. 

Anybody who has a problem logging in, or entering events once logged in, should contact Tennis Australia via play@tennis.com.au or Ph 1800 752 983.   

The Student Singles Champions become the holders of the Reginald Roe Shield which is named in honour of ‘The Skipper’, Reginald Heber Roe, who was Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School for 30 years, one of the driving forces behind the establishment of The University of Queensland, the first Vice-Chancellor of The University of Queensland, the first President of UQ Sport and the founding father of Tennis in Queensland.

The Staff Singles Champions become the holders of the Mall Molesworth Shield which is named in honour of Brisbane’s Maud Margaret (Mall) Molesworth who won the inaugural Australian Open Ladies’ Singles Championships (in 1922), won the Queensland Open Ladies’ Singles Championships 8 times (in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931 & 1933), was the first Australian woman to be ranked in the World Top Ten and also coached the UQ Women’s Intervarsity Team when her husband was teaching at UQ.