Hobart Out Tennis Club

We run weekly social play every Tuesday at the Domain Tennis Centre from 17:30 to 19:30. Go to our Social Tennis page for more details. The Domain Tennis Centre is located at 2 Davies Ave, Queens Domain, Hobart. We also hold three annual events, with information provided on the Tournaments page.

We are affiliated with Tennis Tasmania, abide by Tennis Australia national policies, and assist with advice on important documents within this sport, such as the recently released Transgender Inclusion Guidelines for Community Tennis. See link for more information: https://www.tennis.com.au/play/inclusion-and-diversity/lgbti

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at hobartouttennis@gmail.com. You can also follow us on Facebook or Instagram to get all our latest updates (icons below).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

nipaluna is the name of the country in which the city of Hobart sits.

Hobart Out Tennis acknowledges the palawa people as the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of lutruwita, Tasmania.

We pay our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and to their Elders past, present and emerging.

CLUB NEWS

One of our founding members Brendon Oliver-Ewen has won the Volunteer Achievement Award at Tennis Australia's Newcombe Awards night 2023! 

This is great recognition for Brendon, who has contributed immeasurably to the Club. His long list of contributions include helping set up our Constitution, all round GLTA and Compass tournament organisation and help, secretarial duties, raising awareness of the club and LGBTQIA+ community through media engagement, raising much-needed funds, organising merchandise, goody bag and raffle prizes, getting community organisations involved, getting a sport minister to open our compass competition, just to name a few. However, his biggest contribution is his connection to each and every member of our club and others. He has an innate ability to almost instantly create rapport with people, bringing the best out of them.

And his speech  was simply inspirational and you can watch it on our Facebook page or via Youtube link here! In front of titans of the Australian tennis world and other business and community leaders, Brendon spoke not only of his proudest moments with the club, but also shared some hard hitting truths and difficulties faced by our LGBTQIA+ community and how diversity and inclusion is so vital to us. Many people came up to him to congratulate him and commend him on such a moving speech! Even the big man himself John Newcombe stopped to shake his hand and praised him on a hard but important speech.

The HOTTIEs, the Tasmanian tennis community and wider LGBTQIA+ community is a much better space with Brendon in it!

Congratulations again!