They will be two of eight players in the Hunter team competing at the annual competition against some of the State’s best high school-aged tennis stars.

The three-day tournament starts today and it will be Wenta leading the way for Hunter.

The Weston 15-year-old is the Hunter’s number one

ranked player.

It means Wenta, a Year 10 student at Hunter Sports High School, will take on the number one players from the other school sports associations across the state, which include hosts North West, Sydney East and Riverina.

Wenta – ranked 295 in Australia – said he was looking forward to the challenge and was hoping Hunter would progress beyond the round robin stages.

The 10 sporting associations have been split into two pools of five teams each.

Each team will play four times, which encompasses eight singles matches and four doubles matches.

The winner of each pool will then vie for top spot.

This is where Wenta wants to finish and he expected that this year’s campaign may even exceed Hunter’s bronze medal effort at Illawarra in 2008.

“We may be a little better than last year,” he said.

Wenta said most of last year’s team had been retained, which increased the experience of the squad, but the inclusion of first-time players such as Parrey had boosted the line-up and its chances at the carnival.

“We are looking pretty good,” Wenta said.

“We have got a strong team and we should do pretty well.”

The team also includes Northumberland region under-14 Champion of Champions Jack Maddocks, Mitchell George and James Plowman.

It was the team atmosphere that Wenta said he was looking forward to this week – a world away from the competitive individual focus usually associated with the sport.

“It is more fun going away like that and hanging out with the team,” Wenta said.

Wenta, who will compete at the under-16 Australian Championships in Melbourne in December, will most likely team up with Plowman for the doubles.

The tournament wraps up on Thursday.