Gunnedah Tennis Club has had near-record entries for the first Junior Development Series.
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The event was the first of 10 JDS tournament that had been scheduled for the North West this year.
The first JDS tournament was supposed to be held in Armidale this month, but was washed out.
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The series culminates with the best eight players in each age group playing their North Coast counterparts at Inverell in August.
From there, northern New South Wales' best juniors will compete at the state JDS finals, pitted against the state's best from other regions.
Dale Martin, director of the Gunnedah tournament on Sunday, said 140 players entered the event and a "great day was had by all".
"We probably haven't had numbers like this for seven or eight years," he said.
"So it was very encouraging for not only tennis in Gunnedah but across our whole region."
Martin attributed the high number of entries to the Armidale event being washed out, and world No 1 Ash Barty playing at the Australian Open in January.
"A lot of the local juniors obviously get a lot keener with the TV exposure the Australian Open produces, but are very much inspired by someone like Ash's attitude and demeanour," he said.
It was a big weekend for a lot of the North West tennis juniors, with the Northern Inland Technology NIAS tennis squad having their first training day on Saturday as a lead up to Sunday's tournament.
Martin said coaches Jarrod Campbell, Justin Sherriff and Craig Louis always did a "terrific job" at the training day, and were impressed with the players' attitudes.
The results from Sunday's tournament:
8 girls winner, Evanna Louis; runner up, Josie Knapman.
8 boys winner, Zac Parkinson; runner up, Edward Pengelly.
10 girls winner, Ezarlia Cant; runner up, Emily Maher.
10 boys winner, Max Judd; runner up, Kurtis Parkinson.
12 girls winner, Sophie Bailey; runner up, Charo Brown.
12 boys winner, Will Penberthy; runner up, Jai McInnes.
14 girls winner, Lauren Appleby; runner up, Kendra Fitzpatrick.
14 boys winner, Connor Guest; runner up, Mason Louis.
16 girls winner, Isabelle Moore; runner up, Lucy Gainsford.
16 boys winner, Ryan Simpfendorfer; runner up, Sabastian Lobban.
Open men's winner, Zac Adams; runner up, Aaron Osmond.
Open women's winner, Chloe Flegerbein.
