Australian Pickleball Championships

The Australian Pickleball Championships were held at the Queensland State Tennis Centre, Tennyson, Brisbane over 30 September through 3 October 2022.

This event was to date, the largest pickleball tournament held in the Southern Hemisphere with 433 players registered to play in around 80 different events!!!

The spirit in which this tournament and each of the individual matches were played was just fantastic and it proves why pickleball is such a growing sport. With much laughter and smiles on every court, no matter how serious (or not so serious) the matches being played.

The tournament saw some great weather days and then some "not so great" weather days. Friday started out with near perfect weather, only to see it slowly deteriorate as the weekend progressed. Rain on Saturday evening and through the most of Sunday resulted in a lot of "on the fly" re-organisation of draws and courts. Very tough conditions for the organisers, but they got there in the end!!!

A number of Redlands Pickleball Club members took part in the event. And as always, whether they ended up with a shiny bit of medal hanging around their neck or not, all had a great time and deserve a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS for having it a go and giving it your best.

From my count, we had 12 club members participate in 11 separate events and we brought home medals in a total of 9 of them!! What a FANTASTIC EFFORT!!

A quick summary of the achievements of our members is following:

Brian Krisanski