STC – Newsletter January 2017
Sharing the latest Shinfield Tennis Club information and news with you:
Balls! We’re changing the tennis ball system, with the aim of providing better ball quality for club night. Harder wearing Babalat balls will be available for general play (match play will continue with the Slazenger balls). Club balls will be available in the new ‘tube rack’ in designated Club Ball tubes. When finished using balls, replace good balls in the tube rack or leave them individually on top if they require drying, and put any dead balls in the green bucket. Please DO NOT remove balls from the club or keep your own ‘store’. We will regularly monitor and replace balls to provide good quality balls for your games.
Box Leagues. Current boxes will end in January. New boxes will be compiled in February and run to Easter. After Easter we will have regular tournaments for Adults (3rd Sunday of the month) and the Singles Tournament that runs through the summer. If there is a demand for Singles and Mixed Box Leagues in the summer, Tony is happy to run them, please provide feedback to Tony directly: coaches@shinfieldtennisclub.co.uk
AGM & Quiz 24th March: Join us for the Tennis Club AGM and a family quiz in aid of comic relief. When we ran a similar event last year we heard “that is the best AGM I have ever attended”. We will also use the event to recognise our winners and achievers and we’ll provide some snacks and drinks.
Action: Wimbledon Opt in: To maximum the number of tickets Shinfield get allocated for the Wimbledon ballot, we need all our members to ‘Opt in’ Log into the LTA Members site and LOG IN TO OPT IN. If you are not yet a LTA member please register and choose Shinfield as your club. The more LTA members we have the more Wimbledon tickets we get, so whether you intend to go to Wimbledon or not, please do register and get you BTM number – it is free, plus there is a lot of information on the site to help you improve your game.
Tracey Gale, Chairman