An Otumoetai Tennis Club junior tournament has seen locals perform well against high performing players from around the country.

The tier three junior masters tournament is the largest the club has held so far with 123 players competing in 227 matches over the weekend.

Competitors came from all over the Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Christchurch and Taranaki. The age groups ran from under 10 to under 18 for both boys and girls.

Junior convener Matthew King says the club set up the flagship tournament to attract high quality players from outside the region and to give locals exposure.

The points from the tournament count towards the Tennis New Zealand Junior Masters Points Race.

'It does bring more players in from other regions, so you get a really high quality level of tennis at the top end.”

He says local players performed really well and a tournament standout is Macy Donaghy; the 15-year-old beat a player two grades higher than her and took out second place in the 16 to 18 girls.

Top player Carrigan Hartley had a tough tournament having to default his last match because of blisters on his hands. Matthew says the 16-year-old's blisters were pretty shocking and Carrigan decided to save himself for an upcoming tournament this weekend.

Players who didn't make it through to the main draw were still able to play challenging matches against people with similar abilities, he says.

The club also ran a hotshots tournament for seven to 11-year-olds which gets the youngsters used to playing matches.

For the first year they also had a Have a Go tournament for players 11 years and older who are reasonably new to tennis.

Matthew says there was really good sportsmanship and great tennis was played by all the players.