Trowbridge Westbourne Tennis Club is a relaxed and progressive club. We have a code of conduct to make things easier for eveyone to enjoy their time at the club. We are dedicated to providing and maintaining quality tennis-oriented facilities for the members and the community that we serve.
Players are expected, both on and off the court, to conduct themselves in a way which reflects favourably on the game and their fellow players.
The club’s goals are:
- To promote the growth, prosperity, and development of the Trowbridge Westbourne Tennis Club in order to achieve the maximum potential of both the facility and the tennis community
- To create an environment where tennis players of all ages, abilities, and skill levels can meet other players and make new social friendships as well as finding players of a similar standard
- To place greater importance on the social and community aspects of tennis rather than being purely competition and results-driven
- To provide a range of activities such as coaching, training, social tennis, league tennis, tournaments, and social activities so people can learn and improve on their tennis skills as well as participating in social events at the Tennis Club
- To manage the Trowbridge Westbourne Tennis Club finances on a non-profit basis, in such a way that all revenues received will be for the benefit of the Trowbridge Westbourne Tennis Club
- To promote and support community-oriented activities; to manage and operate Trowbridge Westbourne Tennis Club by keeping membership fees to a minimum
- Members must be courteous on court and respect those playing around them.
Trowbridge Westbourne Tennis Club is a social, friendly, and inclusive club.
When on Court
Make sure that you wear tennis shoes to safeguard against any accidents or injuries on court.
Some common sense guidelines for you:
- Wait until an appropriate pause in play before entering the courts, such as the end of a game or change of ends
- Try not to disturb play on neighbouring courts when you're playing
- Pass balls which stray onto your court, back to the server on the next court at an appropriate time
- When you're serving, call the score after every point and the game score at the end of each game
- Do not hit, kick or throw a racket, ball or other object in anger
- Wait for the first ball to be cleared, and the receiver to be ready, before playing a second serve
- Be scrupulously fair in all line decisions. Players are responsible for calls on their side of the net and should not make decisions or volunteer opinion on calls from the other side of the net
- If you are suprised by a call made by an opponent, simply ask once, "Are you sure?" If the answer is yes, play on
- If you are unsure about making a line call, you can either give the point away or suggest that the point is replayed
- Players play at their own risk.
Above all - Enjoy your tennis!