🟢 Registrations Now Open – DVTA Autumn 2026 Competition!

Mill Park Tennis Club is now accepting registrations for the DVTA Autumn 2026 Junior Competition.

📅 Registrations Close: Thursday, 20th November 2025 at 5.00pm

🎾 Before Registering

Please ensure you read the following important information before committing to play.

 

Player and Parent/Guardian Obligations

All players and parents/guardians must abide by:

Parents/guardians are also responsible for:

  • Ensuring children arrive on time for all home and away matches (as per team roster).

  • Notifying the team contact as soon as possible if a player is unavailable for a match.

By submitting a registration form, both players and parents/guardians agree to uphold these obligations. Penalties may apply from either MPTC or DVTA for non-compliance.

💰 Registration Fee

$40 per player

Payment Method

After teams are submitted to DVTA for grading, an invoice will be sent via Square, allowing you to pay the registration fee online.

 

🧾 Membership Requirement

To be eligible to play, all junior players must be financial members of Mill Park Tennis Club for the entire season.

You can meet this requirement by either:

  • Applying for a Junior Membership (per child), or

  • Applying for a Family Membership (covers 2 adults + 2 children; + $5  per extra child)

Note that if you opt for a Junior Membership, each child will require a separate membership.

For further information on memberships, including instruction on how to become a financial member of the club, please visit https://www.millparktennisclub.com.au/membership-ta/.

🙋‍♀️ Volunteer Roles

Junior competition relies on our amazing volunteers!

Our Junior Coordinator, Paul Vassallo, acts as the club’s liaison with DVTA.

Parent Volunteer Roles Include:

  • Home Court Supervisor

    • Open courts and clubhouse prior to play

    • Mediate on-court disputes and ensure Codes of Conduct are followed

  • Team Manager (one per team)

    • Communicate roster to parents

    • Escalate any player unavailability’s to other team managers and the Junior Coordinator to organise a fill-in player.

    • Ensure canteen duties is run when your team is rostered

    • Ensure game scores are entered in the team’s scoresheet

Best practice tips for Team Managers:

  • Set up a WhatsApp group with all team parents/guardians

  • Monitor the WhatsApp group created by the Junior Coordinator

All Team Managers will receive an induction and ongoing support from the Junior Coordinator.

🧮 Selection Process

  • Team selections are based on player’s performance statistics that each individual player gains from the last season of tennis, as reviewed during the MPTC Junior Match Committee meeting
  • New players registering,  may be asked to play a grading match against a current Mill Park player, to determine their appropriate playing standard
  • Once teams are graded by DVTA, the decision is FINAL and CANNOT be changed by clubs

 

Registration Form

Additional Players

Please complete a new registration form for each player