Club nights and afternoons

Our main club night is Tuesday from 6.30 onwards. Just turn up and join other players in doubles, adults of all abilities and all competent junior players welcome.  These sessions are floodlit in winter and there’s nothing quite like playing outdoors when the moon’s full and the frost’s beginning to bite. We love it. Floodlights are free on club nights.

We hold a Thursday club night too, 6.30 onwards, though in summer this may be only 2 courts or occassionally cancelled due to League matches.

Free in the afternoons? Retired? A day off work?  In the past we've had club afternoon sessions from 2.00 onwards on both Tuesdays and Fridays. These have been very quiet recently but the courts are guaranteed at this time for members, so feel free to gather and play socially. 

Coaching Club Nights

These are run by coach James Wright on the first and third Tuesday of the month at the moment, due to member demand. They’re a great way to meet other players, brush up on your tactics and technique. Open to all senior and competent junior members.  6.30 till 8.00. £5.00 to seniors, free to juniors and students. 

American Tournaments

We hold a few American tournaments each year including our Spring Clean Tennis day and our main summer social tournament with BBQ, cake, raffle, fastest serve machine and more, usually held in July.

How club nights work at Kendal Lawn Tennis Club

Club nights are a great way to get some tennis in a couple of times a week.  In order for them to run as smoothly as possible, it would be great if players can try and follow our club night guidelines.

If you are a relatively new player or member, please do read this, different clubs have different set-ups for club nights. This is how we run ours.

Safety on Court

• Please close the gates onto the court to ensure nobody runs into an open gate and injures themselves.
• When moving between courts before or after your game, please don’t walk behind another court that has a game in play. Wait until they have finished the point they’re playing and try not to disrupt their game.  
• Please use the gate closest to the court you'll be playing on so you don't walk behind a game in progress which can cause accidents.   

To help matches run smoothly:

• Please make sure you always have two balls before you serve.
• If you are serving, please keep track of the score; if it helps say it out loud just before you serve to avoid disagreements about it later in the game!
• If you’re returning serve and the serve is out, please don’t hit it back unless you have to, just hit it gently into the net so the game can proceed without too much delay.
• If you are at the net ready to volley and the serve hits the net and lands on your side, please just roll it gently into the net or put it in your pocket, don’t pass it back to the server, then the match can proceed without too much delay.
• Please make sure everyone hears line calls, some of us are a bit deaf!

Mixing in

• We play short sets of five games so that all players get a chance to mix in with others. If club night’s busy that means no one has to wait too long before getting back on court.
• Please be aware of new people arriving so no one’s off court for too long.
• Once your short set has finished check how matches on the other courts are progressing. If they still need some time to finish, play another game until they do, so that more courts get to mix in at the same time.
• It is up to the players around on the evening to decide how to mix in: options would include a womens or mens doubles, winners up/losers down and swapping partners. Or whatever those present agree on. It is no one person’s responsibility to sort this out. 
• If it’s a busy night and some players have to sit off for a game, it is the responsibility of those down on the night to ensure no one’s off for too long and that there’s still plenty of mixing in so the same people don’t end up playing each other every match.