3 time Sale Tennis Club Women’s Club Champion Jess Board has been selected in the Victorian Pizzey Cup team.  The Pizzey Cup is a prestigious national schools tennis championships open to students from Year 7 through to Year 12 inclusive.

The Jack Pizzey Cup was inaugurated in 1963 with the then Queensland Minister for Education, the Rt. Hon. Jack Pizzey donating the trophy.  Jack Pizzey was a secondary school teacher and became Premier of Queensland in January 1968 until his sudden and untimely death in July of that year. 

Tennis Victoria and Tennis Australia support School Sport Victoria in the delivery of the National Secondary School Teams event – the Pizzey Cup – with teams competing from every State and Territory. The event provides Victorian secondary school students the opportunity to represent Victoria at the School Sport Australia Championships with the winners awarded the Pizzey Cup and players also receive important Australian Ranking points.  The Victorian team is made up of 8 female and 8 male Victorian secondary students aged 18 and under. 

Jess is in Year 11 at Gippsland Grammar and is the only player from Gippsland to make the team.  Jess is currently 3150 in the ITF junior world rankings and over the past month she has played Junior International Tennis Federation events in Indonesia, Vietnam and has just returned from an event in Fiji.

The 2022 Pizzey Cup will be held in Perth from August 27 to September 3. 

Written by Robin Lowe

Photo: Jess in action in a Junior ITF event in Vietnam