SUMMER TOURNAMENT UPDATE

Well done to everyone who have played their tournament matches on time despite some bad weather at the start of the tournament. We are waiting for a few singles first round matches to complete so that we can do the draw for the Plate tournament. Good luck to everyone!

SUMMER HOLIDAY CAMPS

We are running a 7-week series of summer tennis camps starting on Monday July 15th and running right up to the 30 August. All sessions are available to book now in the Holiday Camps section of this website. Any queries or booking issues, just contact Dave on davewattstennis@hotmail.com

GRASS COURT BOOKING

Our grass courts are open and booking is available. To ensure that they last the entire summer, we only have 3 courts open at any one time and we rest and water one on an ad hoc basis.

To keep things simple, court 10 is marked as closed (even though it may not be) so if you book court 7 you should just use the first court with a net, court 8 (second court with a net) and court 9 (last court with a net). To be super clear, the first one "with a net" is the closest grass court to court 6 which has a net up.

Once the club championships have finished, we generally open all 4 courts if we can and this will be reflected on the court booking system.

We will use the Spencer LTC Court Booking WhatsApp Group to advise when an extra court is available as well as a way to notify members if the courts have been closed due to bad weather.

If you wish to join this group, please send your details to Chris Hanage at Chair@spencertennisclub.com or 07973267619 or, and this is technical stretch on our part that we're not sure will work, try clicking this link!

ADULT SOCIALS

We will continue to run our Wednesday evening socials as normal with people able to book for the early session via the usual email and link. Sunday social and the Monday and Friday off-peak sessions will continue as normal. All socials are on the clay courts but we can move pairs to a grass court if they wish and if a grass court is free. We are leaving the grass courts bookable for tournament matches only during the social sessions and request that members adhere to this please.
 

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.