On most Saturdays throughout winter, the Nita McGrath complex is a hive of activity from early in the morning through to late in the afternoon as hundreds of players go through their paces in the various grades of the Rawson Homes Premiership.

And with the Diamonds staving off the New Zealand Silver Ferns in a thrilling final on Sunday, Williams said she anticipated interest in the sport would continue to flourish.

"We're lucky in netball because the Australian girls have always been very strong and always been contenders in these international events," Williams said.

"As a result they always get some good attention but I think with having the tournament here in Australia it gave plenty of people the chance to watch, and beating New Zealand in the final was a terrific result.

"I know I had people at work and friends, who aren't normally into netball, that were watching the tournament, and hopefully the flow-on is that a lot more kids were watching as well and they will either take up the sport, or if they already play they will become even keener.

"We're lucky in Dubbo because we have Susan Pettit coming to do some junior clinics soon, and we had Catherine Cox and Rebecca Bulley last year so to have players with national experience continually coming here to coach our kids is great. Not many sports would get that kind of thing happening."

Australia's three-goal win in the final was built on the back of a terrific start, a much different scenario to what panned out when the two sides met during the early rounds of the tournament.

And with the local netball competition approaching the semi-final stage, Williams conceded the event came at an ideal time.

"Here in Dubbo we've got finals starting in a couple of weeks, and our association had a general bye last weekend because of the final.

"A lot of players from here were going to be down in Sydney watching, and the flow on from that is they come back fresh from watching Australia win and the quality of our netball locally should hopefully be very good.

"Our A-grade competition this year is as good as it has been for a long time, and we've got strong representative teams from the opens down to the junior grades.

"It looks like State League is going to be played in March again next year so we will start looking to pick our rep squads in September and get stuck in to training pretty soon after that."