SUMMER FINALS DAY - July 19th
A big thank you to our finalists who provided us with some excellent matches despite a late start due to the heavy rain and the matches being moved to the clay courts. Thanks also to the umpires and to Zak for the delicious food and the tireless efforts of Jenny and the bar staff.
Here are the results:
Men's Singles: Giampiero Bittarelli bt Joe Nicholson 6-1 7-6
Ladies Singles: Vladyslava Zukina bt Anna Sherring 4-6 6-4 6-0
Men's Doubles: Joe Nicholson/Ed Benjafield bt Seb Wray/Giampiero Bittarelli 4-6 6-1 7-6 (10-7)
Ladies Doubles: Vladyslava Zukina/Irina Dulbish bt Anna SHerring/Ali Strub 6-3 2-6 6-4
Mixed Doubles: Vladyslava Zukina/Evgeniy Zukin bt Anna Sherring/Joe Nicholson 2-6 6-2 6-4
Men's Singles Plate: Dan Morentin by Manvir Kalsi 6-2 6-1
Ladies Singles Plate: Sang Kim bt Zoe Carswell 6-4 6-2
Men's Doubles Plate: Manvir Kalsi/Matt Henry by Steve Peacock/Luke Jarvis 6-2 6-2
Mixed Doubles Plate: Katherine & Patrick Creamer bt Amelia & Matt Chambers 7-6 6-3
UPCOMING EVENTS/COURSES
SUMMER HOLIDAY CAMPS: We are running our popular Summer holiday camps for 5 weeks starting on July 21st. There are still spaces available for some of the dates in August. More information and sign-up available in the HOLIDAY CAMPS section of this website.
AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT: We will be running a mixed doubles tournament on August 25th and will be advertising this soon
JUNIOR AFTER-SCHOOL SQUADS: These will commence on the w/o September 8th and run for 14 weeks with a break for half term in October (where we will run a holiday camp for one week). The squads will be available in the COACHING section of this website by July 28th.
JUNIOR SOCIALS
The Friday after-school kids socials have finished for the summer holidays but will start up again on September 12th. The sessions are 4.30-6pm for Orange Ball 6-12 years and the social for the older children begins at 6pm and finishes at 7.30pm. As before, no booking is required and you pay £10 cash (non members) or £5 (members) on arrival for this popular, fun session.
SUMMER TERM AFTER-SCHOOL SQUADS
We are happy to announce that the summer term after-school squads are up on the website and available to book. We hope to welcome everyone back and thank those who attended our programmes in the cold and wet autumn/winter months. Here’s hoping for a drier few months! Our after school squads are open to members and non-members.
Due to the early Easter this year the summer term is a rather long 14 weeks with a break on the week of May 27th for half term. You are signing up for 13 sessions.
START DATE: Monday 15th April
LAST SQUAD: Thursday 18th July
Timings: We have kept to the timetable that we had for the Spring camps with only one exception. The Thursday Orange Ball session has been moved from 4.30pm and will now start at 4.45pm instead.
Pricing: We have left the pricing for most squads as they were but there have been increases of £1 per session for some squads where we have added another coach and for others where the small squad size meant that the session was not financially viable. We hope this is acceptable to you.
You can find the full list of our summer term squads in the COACHING section of our website under Junior Squads or you can use this link: Spencer Lawn Tennis Club / Junior Squads (lta.org.uk)
JUNIOR TENNIS
We have entered some junior teams for the Surrey Leagues this year and our coaches will be talking to kids and parents over the coming weeks to see if we can get some keen boys and girls to represent Spencer against other clubs. Feel free to contact any of the coaches if you're interested in your child taking part.
We are also hoping to organise some internal tournaments for juniors with a finals day taking place in May before the half term. Again, get in touch if you want your child to take part but it's likely that our squad coaches will be getting kids involved over the next week or so.
IN OTHER NEWS........
Huge congratulations to our club captain Viv Ngan who is now a Surrey Champion! Viv won a tough final of the Women's Over 35 Singles last weekend. These titles are very, very difficult to win so well done Viv on such a great achievement.
MEMBERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
The club is at full capacity and is no longer able to accomodate any new, off-peak or junior members. We are also closing our membership waiting list until a full review of the list has taken place.
Balls and Strings
Tennis balls are now available for sale behind the bar and cost £6 per tin. For those of you who don't know, Seb (coach) is our resident racquet stringer and provides an excellent service using top quality strings. If he's not around you can leave your racquet with any of the coaches who will make sure he gets it. If you need an overgrip or a replacement grip just ask Dave who can do it on the spot for you if he's not on court.
Also worth mentioning that we do have quite a few 2nd hand adult racquets, some new childrens shoes and some new junior racquets for sale. Proceeds from these will be sent to the Wandsworth Food Bank.