Club Tournament

2024 Club Tournament

The club is running a club championship tournament again this year, along the lines of previous years, culminating in a finals weekend that is to take place on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September.

The tournament consists of a number of events in two broad categories:

Open events
Handicap events

Open events are played off a normal tennis scoring system, while handicap events involve a handicap being in place in order to even up the sides, so that stronger players/teams might start each game or each other game a point or two down (such as starting each service game at 0-15). Sets in handicap events are also played to 4 instead of 6, with a tie-break at 3-3. The handicap system is detailed in this document.

These are the events that we are putting on:

Men's open singles
Men's open doubles
Women's open doubles
Mixed open doubles
Men's veterans (over 55) open doubles
Men's handicap singles
Men's handicap doubles
Women's handicap doubles
Mixed handicap doubles

Apart from the men's open singles, each event begins with round robin groups, so that players are guaranteed at least two matches. The winners (or the winners and runners-up) of each group proceed to the final (or semi-final).

There is a £5 fee for each event entered, which we will put towards various development projects, such as the installation of LED floodlights.

Players are to provide their own balls for the preliminary rounds, but the club will provide new balls for the finals on finals weekend.

For the preliminary rounds, players need to arrange when they play matches amongst themselves. The tournament committee will be monitoring the progress, and will institute milestones as we go along, so that we don't have a mad rush of people cramming in several matches in the week leading up to finals weekend.

2024 Draws and Results

Men's Open Singles

Men's Open Doubles

Women's Open Doubles

Mixed Open Doubles

Men's Over-55s Open Doubles

Men's Handicap Singles

Men's Handicap Doubles

Women's Handicap Doubles

Mixed Handicap Doubles

2023 Club Tournament

The club tournament ran from July to Finals Weekend on 16th-17th September, and beyond (for matches not played during Finals Weekend for one reason or another).

Ten events were played for:

Men's open singles
Men's open doubles
Women's open singles
Women's open doubles
Mixed open doubles
Men's veterans (over 55) open doubles
Men's handicap singles
Men's handicap doubles
Women's handicap doubles
Mixed handicap doubles

The majority of events consisted of round robin matches, with the top two finishers going straight to the final on Finals Weekend (apart from Mixed Open Doubles, where semi-finals took place). Players arranged the preliminary matches amongst themselves, with milestones being set so that events progress steadily towards the final, without there being a mad rush to play games in September.

2022 Results

All ten finals have now been played. These are the results:

Men's Open Doubles - Trevor Herron & Charles Ross beat Gary McDonnell & Paul Ward 7-5, 6-1
Women's Handicap Doubles - Janet Robinson & Debby Kerr beat Jane Cockburn & Jane Park 4-3, 0-4, 10-7
Men's Open Over-55 Doubles - Graham Fewell & Richard Huck beat Trevor Herron & Alan Herron 1-6, 7-6, 12-10
Men's Open Singles - Alex Laude beat Trevor Herron 0-6, 6-3, 10-7
Mixed Open Doubles - Rachael Michie & Trevor Herron beat Janet Robinson & Charles Ross 7-5, 4-6, 10-8
Men's Handicap Doubles - Gordon Rutter & Bill Dunn beat Jarek Talarek & Paul Raven 3-4, 4-2, 10-6
Women's Open Doubles - Jill Taylor & Tracey Gaskill beat Gillian Gordon & Steph Cox 6-2, 6-3
Women's Open Singles - Jill Taylor beat Tracey Gaskill 6-3, 6-0
Men's Handicap Singles - Gavin Sked beat Alan Herron 6-4, 0-6, 10-4
Mixed Handicap Doubles - Susannah Garside & Steve Watkins beat Julie Wheatley & Rod Hall 4-0, 4-1