Autumn 2019 Newsletter
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00
We have had a much more active year this year with some fresh enthusiasm and input, this has sparked more interest in the club.
We have engaged with the Primary School offering free membership to the Primary School children and were delighted that in the two weeks prior to the launch Ali from Tennis Scotland visited the school and did group sessions on the court.
In May we held an open/relaunch day in conjunction with the LTA Big British Tennis, which despite the poor weather was well attended. We got a good number of junior members on the court at one time getting coaching from Neil Clunie and helpers, including Stuart Brown from Tennis Scotland.
We ran a block of six week tennis lessons for juniors and adults starting from 25th May. This was run by Neil assisted by his son Adam. While there was a disappointing take up in Junior lessons, this allowed capacity to run adult blocks too. Our Autumn lessons will start on the 8th September.
Provision of a second Court has progressed with the appointment of Advantage Sports Consultancy, the first stage is to submit a planning application which is due to be submitted imminently.
In 2019 we received an allocation of Wimbledon tickets again and there was a draw for these for club and LTA members who applied to take part. This year we got 3 days of pair tickets. These included a pair for the 13th July which was Woman’s Final day and the Men’s doubles final, the Men’s Doubles Final was an epic match.
We look forward to building on the progress we have made in the last year, our aim is to fundamentally see more people playing tennis.