{"id":487817,"date":"2026-02-18T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:36:29","slug":"dumbleyung-lawn-classic-2026-hits-record-player-numbers-with-160-stepping-on-to-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487817\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbleyung Lawn Classic 2026 hits record player numbers with 160 stepping on to the court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis lovers celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day in a special way with nearly 200 players from around the State competing in the 2026 Dumbleyung Lawn Classic at the weekend.<\/p>\n

The tournament\u2019s 26th year had 160 players take to the court over two days of intense men\u2019s, women\u2019s and mixed doubles competition.<\/p>\n

On Saturday the men\u2019s A-grade doubles had a thrilling tie-breaker finish between Angus Armstrong (Toolibin) and Michael McSpadden (Narrogin) and \u201cthe Jacks\u201d, Jack Pearce and Jack Faulkner.<\/p>\n

\"Men\u2019sCamera IconMen\u2019s doubles A-grade winner Jack Pearce, sponsor Ciaran Early from Prices Fabrication and Steel and teammate Jack Faulkner. Credit: Megan Henry<\/p>\n

Dumbleyung\u2019s Pearce and Kukerin\u2019s Faulkner just tipped the finishing set in their favour to secure the win after an even back and forth.<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s A-grade doubles Jodie Martens (Katanning) and tennis coach Megan Henry (Dumbleyung) sealed first place when facing Tenterden team Alex Riggall and Clare King.<\/p>\n

Narrogin\u2019s 12-year-old tennis protege Zander Wilkie triumphed beside club partner Jason Eastwood in men\u2019s B-grade against Dumbleyung team Lee Smith and Jon Ward.<\/p>\n

\"Men\u2019sCamera IconMen\u2019s doubles B-grade winners Jason Eastwood, sponsor Ciaran Early from Prices Fabrication and Steel and teammate and Zander Wilkie, 12. Credit: Megan Henry<\/p>\n

Isabelle Kilpatrick and Zoe Gibson proved to be a force defeating runners-up Sam Lee and Nicky Thompson who had made the drive from Albany in the women\u2019s B-grade.<\/p>\n

C-grade champion Dumbleyung-Toolibin pair Matthew Dare and Byron Blevin claimed a win against Mandurah\u2019s Lee Goodwin and Lintorn Bowen.<\/p>\n

Cowaramup Tennis Club C-grade women\u2019s duo Lisa Clark and Anita Revel were unshakable, pushing past Pascale Abbot and Tika Baxter (Margaret River).<\/p>\n

The 2025 Lawn Classic best dressed Wilma Bentley and Cherry Goodwin from South Mandurah Tennis Club were clear day-one winners for their second consecutive year, dressed in Valentine nurse attire to match an unspoken theme.<\/p>\n

The junior hit-the-target game winner was Clare Kowald and adult winner was Lynley Keley.<\/p>\n

The heated contest continued into Sunday as high-grade mixed doubles ended in even sets and countbacks were required to decide the winners.<\/p>\n

\"Men\u2019sCamera IconMen\u2019s doubles C-grade winners Matthew Dare, sponsor Ciaran Early from Prices Fabrication and Steel and teammate and Byron Blevin. Credit: Megan Henry<\/p>\n

Chad Davidson and Jodie Martens took out a closely contest grade one title, needing a countback to prevail over Henry and Armstrong.<\/p>\n

Wilkie took his second victory for the weekend with partner Eliza Murray in a close countback tie-breaker over runners-up Nicki Evans and Kendal Ballard in grade two.<\/p>\n

Power-pairing Dare and Gibson, who won in their respective doubles comp the day before, were victorious in grade three over Graeme Lewis and Laura McLean.<\/p>\n

\"MixedCamera IconMixed doubles grade one winners Chad Davidson, sponsor Ciaran Early from Prices Fabrication and Steel and teammate and Jodie Martens. Credit: Megan Henry<\/p>\n

Dumbleyung\u2019s Jon Ward and Candice Lloyd won grade four and Howie Ward with Margaret River partner Tika Baxter triumphed in grade five.<\/p>\n

Grade six winners Pascale Abbot and Dean Toovey proved too strong for runners-up and mother and son duo Suzie Perrin and Toby Perrin.<\/p>\n

Day two best dressed were Alex Roediger and Mitchell Ashworth donned in all hot pink with Zoe Mottershead and Sam Pullman named a close second wearing vintage Fila.<\/p>\n

\"Women\u2019sCamera IconWomen\u2019s doubles B-grade winners Isabelle Kilpatrick, sponsor Ciaran Early from Prices Fabrication and Steel and teammate and Zoe Gibson. Credit: Megan Henry\"DayCamera IconDay two best dressed winners Alex Roediger and Mitchell Ashworth. Credit: Megan Henry\"DayCamera IconDay one best dressed winners Wilma Bentley and Cherry Goodwin from South Mandurah Tennis Club. Credit: Megan Henry\"Women\u2019sCamera IconWomen\u2019s doubles C-grade winners Lisa Clark, sponsor Ciaran Early from Prices Fabrication and Steel and teammate and Anita Revel. Credit: Megan Henry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis lovers celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day in a special way with nearly 200 players from around the State competing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,156504,135984,246696,44,13262,588,85,747,63811],"class_list":["post-487817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-great-southern-herald","tag-great-southern-sport","tag-narrogin-observer","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wheatbelt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}