Hills District Tennis Association was formed in 1933 but became an association in its own right in 1977 and was incorporated in 1990. We offer club membership including affiliation and membership with Tennis NSW/Tennis Australia. 

Our staff and club coaches manage two tennis centres at Castle Hill and Dural with over 1,000 tennis players using our facilities each week. Our two centres provide 17 well maintained synthetic grass courts with lighting. Our courts are available for hire night and day, seven days a week.

What we offer

• Junior Tennis
  • Saturday morning junior competition – 2 doubles & 1 singles each
  • Friday night green ball competition – 1 doubles & 1 singles each
  • Wednesday night representative squads – focus on fitness, footwork, and matchplay
  • Wednesday night development squads – focus on developing matchplay, fitness, and footwork fundamentals
  • Tennis NSW tournaments – range of junior tournaments accessed through www.tennis.com.au/nsw/
• Adult Tennis
  • Tuesday night doubles – 3 sets of doubles
  • Wednesday night doubles – 3 sets of doubles
  • Wednesday night elite representative team training – invitation only
  • Saturday afternoon singles – 2 sets of singles & super tie-break set if required
  • Friday Night doubles – 2 sets of doubles & super tie-break set if required
  • Thursday morning ladies – 3 sets of doubles (best of 8 games)
  • Organised social Thursday nights at Dural & Sunday afternoon at Castle Hill

Our History

• 1933 – on the 17th of March the Association was formed at Dural Memorial Hall
• 1933 on the 1st of April the association’s first tennis competition commenced with 10 teams competing to win the Hills District Cup
• 1953 – HDTA amalgamated with Hornsby-Killara Association
• 1941-1947 – no tennis was played due to World War II
• 1955 – In February, junior tennis first commenced under the guidance of Jeff Inch
• 1967 – the Dural courts were officially opened
• 1968 – Frank Niven was the first coach at Dural Courts.  Frank donated the Jeff Inch Memorial Trophy presented to the best junior each year
• 1974 – Jenny Evans started the Hills Ladies midweek competition
• 1976-1978 – Construction of 4 courts at Castle Hill completed (now known as courts 7-10)
• 1978 – Tuesday night mixed and Thursday night men’s competitions commenced 
• 1983 – around 900 ladies were participating in this competition
• 1990s – 6 additional courts were built at Castle Hill (now known as courts 1-6)
• 2003 – Coaches Neil Smith & Greg Winston introduced the first “open unisex singles” competition, a successful initiative for the shorter format competitions still on offer today
• 2008 – Wednesday night doubles was introduced and Tuesday night doubles followed not long after
• 2015 – MyChoice singles introduced using Tennis Maximizer™ developed by former President, John Allen with assistance from Linda Bestford