Eddie Mera

Mera is of Gulf and New Ireland parentage and started playing the game as a young boy while the family was residing only a block away from the Boroko tennis courts. He picked up his first tennis racket and never looked back.

With only one spot yet to be filled in the PNG Men’s tennis team for the June Pacific Mini Games in Northern Marianas, four players are currently challenging each other in a 3-day round robin qualifier tournament at the Port Moresby Tennis Courts in Boroko.

The PNG men finished 4th in the team’s event at the Pacific Games in Port Moresby in 2015, and will be looking to go one better at the Mini Games this December.

At the time of the Mini Games, most the elite female tennis players will be in Melbourne and China, trying to qualify for the Australian Open and the Australian Open Junior Championships.

All of these is part of PNG Tennis making headways on a global scale and the PNG female tennis players will not be joining the rest of Team PNG in Vanuatu.