After completing her A Levels, this Autumn Kira will join Texas Tech to further her tennis career. Everyone at the club congratulates her on a huge step forward and wishes her the best of luck as she aims to conquer the world!
Full story can be found here
Minutes from the meeting can be found Here
A wonderful mornings tennis (and a few glasses of fizz) culminated in Babs and Mandy walking away with the trophy.
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This year’s Trophy was won by Helen with a small amount of help from her son Harrison. Congratulations to them both.
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After a tough afternoons tennis in the hot summer sun (helped by quite a bit of liquid!), the final was contested between Fraser & Tony and Brendan & Howie. Both teams fought hard but after a close set, and huge support from the sidelines, Brendan & Howie came out on top.
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Only four enthusiastic players turned out for this years tournament. Despite this, and against the wishes of some of the participants to play best of five sets (!), one full set of tennis was played to decide this years winners.
A good set of competitive tennis was played, with the lead going backwards and forwards throughout. Finally Bridget and Bruce came out on top.
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Unfortunately there are no pictures from this great afternoon. This is predominantly due to the fact that as well as the tennis that some people were playing everyone was thoroughly enjoying the strawberries and wonderful home made cakes that were brought along.
A great tournament was played in some wonderful (if hot) weather.
After some hard fought matches Mel finally came out on top.
A great tournament was held in some wonderful weather.
A random draw for partners created a very strong pair in Mel and Patrick. Despite some valiant efforts to defeat them, they held off all comers to take the trophy.
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Another successful Open Day was held at the club today. Many people turned out to have fun in the sun.
The vast majority were existing members but that didnt dampen enthusiasm. We encourage new members to join us but certainly dont stop existing members turning up and having fun together.
The draw for Wimbledon tickets has taken place. This year we have the following pairs of tickets:
The following registered and opted in members were drawn at random in the following order. They will be given the choice of tickets in this order:
Junior coaching started today with plenty of children turning out.
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A good number of members turned out this morning to spruce up the club ready for the season.
Remember, the more turn out the more we can get done to ensure we continue to have a club that it is the envy of many of our visitors.
After the washout of the first date for the Stella Tournament in May, the event was held on 2nd September.
As with previous years it was a very sociable event with a healthy amount of Stella (lager and cidre) being imbibed.
After a random draw for partners a very close tournament ensued. And, after a nail biting finish to the last couple of matches, Tony Barabas and Bradley Young came out victorious. For those that narrowly lost out (Shep!) some additional practice is required in the ensuing year.
A very nice day on court unfortunately saw a smaller than usual turnout for this years mens doubles tournament. However, a very determined set of four gentlemen contested a well fought final with two new tournament winners taking home the spoils.
Congratulations to Alex Ensor and Paul Smith.
Shown below (and soon to be posted on the outside of the clubhouse) is the court usage for this year.
The courts will be closed on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 March while our contractors carry out annual maintenance tasks.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
We have now received our allocation of tickets for Wimbledon this year.
We have 9 pairs, up from 7 pairs last year. So thank you to everyone that opted in.
This year, you no longer need to add your name on to a list in the clubhouse. Instead, everyone who was a registered LTA British Tennis Member on 17th February, was linked to our club, who had opted in to the ballot and is a member of the club when the draw is made (subs paid) will automatically be entered in to our club draw on the 23rd April (you do not need to be present but please come and join in the friendly start of season tournament) for one of these pairs of tickets:
Monday 3rd July - Court number 1
Monday 3rd July - Court number 2
Wed 5th July - Court number 1
Fri 7th July - Centre Court
Tues 11th July - Centre Court (Ladies Quarter Finals)
Tues 11th July - Court number 1 (Ladies Quarter Finals)
Wed 12th July - Court number 2 (Mens Quarter Finals)
Fri 14th July - Court number 1 (Mens Semi Finals)
Sat 15th - Centre Court (Ladies Final)
The fixtures have been published for this seasons matches:
