Happy New Year to everyone - hope you had a great time over the Christmas holidays. Hilda Moore certainly has with her British Empire Medal in the New Years Honours!

We will starting the New Year with a bang so check out the ‘hot news’ inside this edition of our new style club newsletter.

We have several new events coming up this year including:

• an indoor tennis day (bookings needed this month to confirm so please sign up asap)
• a ‘Season Opener’
• a new Veterans Club Championship category to expand participation
• a local Derby vs Hungerford (dates reserved, in planning)
• a grass court experience weekend at the prestigious Devonshire Park site, Eastbourne (dates booked, in planning)

There’s more in the January events you can book onto. Additional highlights are under the ‘New 2026 Events’ column in the newsletter.  An initial full 2026 calendar is available online so get those diaries out!