News

Club closed tournament 2010

This is a tournament only for members of the club. Karen and Matt, the ladies and mens captains respectively, are very, very keen that lots of people enter. As with the lottery, you have to be in it to win it - or to make sure that whoever eventually does win it, has to play lots of matches to do so.   As it says, in the attachment, there will be a plate competition - so even if you are not called Roger or Serena there should be something for you.

Club Closed Entry Form - page 1, page 2 (2 downloads - both PDF documents)

Have your name on the cup - every year!

Warsash Tennis Club are pleased to be able to offer a unique opportunity for club members, local people and businesses to
sponsor our new Club Championship Trophies. Your name will be stylishly engraved on a beautiful silver plated cup and will appear along with the club name and championship category.

Find out more here >>( PDF document)

Sport Relief 2010 - thank you!

Thank you so much for sponsoring us in our attempt to play a 12-hour non stop tennis match.
We started at 9am on Sunday morning and Team Federer immediately went into the lead.
After trailing by quite a margin throughout the first part of the day, Team Nadal then gradually made a steady comeback to beat Team Federer by 121 games to 104 in an exciting climax at 9pm. We completed our target of 12 hours continual matchplay and everyone had a lot of fun.
Over all we have collected for Sport Relief about £800.00 in total from on-line donations and on the sponsorship forms so that is fantastic! Well done everybody!

See the pictures here >>

Warsash Tennis Club does Sport Relief! >>

Amendments to the coaching programme from October 1st:

Thursday Night Team Practice session:
For the winter season this is now open to all team players every week.
Can all captains please encourage their squads to come along and train on these evenings.

Wednesday Mixed Morning:
This is starting a quarter of an hour earlier at 9.15 am going through to 10.45am.

Thursday night Cardio Session :
This has been cancelled due to lack of numbers. (If you have any feedback please talk to Rob)

Friday afternoon Junior Session 4.30pm
This has been cancelled due to lack of numbers but will restart when the demand arises.

If you have any questions please talk to Rob on 07825 641870.

New online court booking system

The club have signed up with BookIt - to provide online tennis court booking.

Club Members can log into BookIt with their registered username and password, and from there courts can be reserved or cancelled quickly and easily. Each time a reservation is made, members profiles are updated with those upcoming dates, as well as displaying past bookings. Club administrators have advanced access to BookIt and are able to manage all user accounts and book larger periods of time for training sessions or special events such as tournaments or closures.

Every page on the site has a button on the left hand side.

How to sign up

Take this link and to register, take the "Not Registered?" link and follow the prompts.
You will then be able to book a court, for up to 2 hours, up to 7 days in advance.
If you have any queries, please speak to Pauline. 01489 557930 email: chairman.

Non-members who wish to book a pay and play court must contact our coach Rob Norris or a committee member so that they can make a booking on your behalf and ensure someone is around to unlock the gate for you if necessary and also collect the money - £2.50 for each player, per court, per hour. Rob Norris (Coach) can be contacted on 07825 641870.

Summer Ball

The 2009 Ball was a great success - see the pictures here >

See pictures of the Summer Balls in 2007 and 2008 here.

Become an LTA member and help Warsash Tennis Club

Please can those of you who have not yet become members of British Tennis seriously consider doing so?
One good reason is that the LTA kindly lent us money for the 4th court.

A more significant, and selfish, reason for doing it is that our Wimbledon ticket allocation for next year will be based on our number of British Tennis Members. For info, last year it was based on our Membership, using the 'formula' of 1 adult = 1 mbr, 3 juniors = 1 member, meaning we had 90 'members'. Our allocation was then based on what proportion our 90 was to the total membership across Hampshire, which this year resulted in us getting 7 pairs of tickets.

Currently, we only have 45 of our 125 members who have joined British Tennis, which I think would reduce our allocation significantly.

Joining is very easy all you need to do is go to the LTA website and fill in a few details. The website will also describe the other advantages of being a Member. Membership is free until at least the end of 2012.

The Wimbledon allocation is done based on the number of Members of British tennis that we have by November - but don't delay - do it today!

Final thing - Junior Members who are 10 or over will now count as one whole person now, and will be eligible to enter the draw.