SPRING FINALS DAY
A big thank you to our finalists who provided some excellent tennis on Saturday 26th April. All 3 matches were incredibly close and very well contested. In the Men's Over 45s Will Isemann beat Will Latimer-Sayer 11-9 in the deciding Champions Tie-break. In the Men's Singles Final Joe Nicholson defeated Evgeniy Zukin 6-4, 7-6 and the Mixed Doubles Final was won by Evgeniy and Vlada Zukin who managed to prevail against Joe Nicholson and Anna Sherring. Once again this went to the wire and was decided by 11-9 in the Champions Tie-break. A big thank you to Zak and Jenny for providing us with some excellent BBQ goodies and for all those who turned up to support the players.
UPCOMING EVENTS/COURSES
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS: Entries are open for the 2025 Club Championships which will be run again through the MatchSpace App. This year there will be a Plate competition for all 5 Singles and Doubles events with all finals taking place on July 19th. Good luck!
MAY 5th Bank Holiday Tournament: We are hoping to run a Mixed Doubles fun tournament for this bank holiday. An email will be sent out but you can book now in the Coaching Section of this website.
Wooden Racquets Tournament: This annual event to celebrate the opening of our grass courts will take place on Saturday May 17th. It's free to enter and is organised by Viktor. You can register in the Coaching section of this website
MAY HALF-TERM HOLIDAY CAMP: Just a quick heads up about the half term holiday camp this coming May. We will be running them for Red, Orange and Yellow Ball groups for 4 days only (Tue-Fri) from May 27th to Friday 30th. The courses are available to book now and can be found in the Holiday Camps section of this site.
Cost per day is £30 and you can book for single days or the entire week. Due to the number of courts we have at our disposal, we limit the number of players for each age group to 12. Any queries: contact Dave Watts on headcoach@spencertennis.com
SUMMER SQUADS NOW AVAILABLE
The after-school squads for the Summer 2025 term (which began on April 22nd) are on this website and are available to book now. A full listing can be found in the COACHING/JuniorSquads section and you can join up anytime even if you missed the first session or two. There are still places available for most of the squads but if you're unsure of which squad might be suitable don't hesitate to contact Dave (Head Coach) who will be able to advise you. You can contact Dave at headcoach@spencertennis.com
JUNIOR SOCIALS
The Friday after-school kids socials started up again on Friday 25th April and will run every Friday during term time up to July 18th. The sessions are 4.30-6pm for Orange Ball 6-10 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.