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Queensland, Australia, 20 August 2024 | Nadia Dimattina

Rebecca Warner has been the Vice President of the University of Queensland (UQ) tennis club for six years.

As an avid tennis player herself, starting out in the UK during the 80s with plastic bats and foam balls, tennis has always held a special place in Warner’s heart.

She’s now focused on a new project – to increase female participation at her club – by introducing women’s social tennis sessions.

“We have historically low female representation across our programs, and I really wanted to look at an initiative that could actually improve those numbers and so I came up with the idea of ladies social tennis to run once a month on a Sunday morning,” Warner explained.

“We call it ‘match and mix’ because we provide refreshments afterwards and invite people to actually stay after tennis, to be able to socialize, to network, to meet other people.”

And the results …