CHRISTMAS PARTY FUN TOURNAMENT DECEMBER 13th at 1.30pm
As part of the Christmas Party celebrations, we will be holding a fun tournament at 1.30-5.00pm on Saturday December 13th. The event will be a team competition between a UK team and a Rest of the World team. Opponents will be matched up for a series of doubles and singles matches and the matches themselves will be either full sets, short sets or tie-breaks depending on the number of players we have and the time we have to ensure everyone gets as many games as possible. Each match win will be awarded one point towards the overall team total and the winning team will be the one with the highest total of wins.
The event will be organised by Dave (Head Coach) who will select team captains from the list of entrants.
COST: Free to enter. Spectators are most welcome too so feel free to pop down and shout encouragement to the players. Sledging permitted! Mulled Wine available for all.
To register as a TEAM UK player please click on the following link: Clubspark / Spencer Lawn Tennis Club / Coaching / Class
To register as a Rest of the World player please use this link: Clubspark / Spencer Lawn Tennis Club / Coaching / Class
We look forward to seeing you on the 13th. Please note that a separate email with details of the Christmas Party will be sent out shortly.
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WEDNESDAY ADULT SOCIAL SESSION
A reminder to all members that the Wednesday adult social is now one single session which runs from 6.45pm to 10pm. You no longer need to book for this session and you can drop in anytime from 6.45pm and play for as long as you like. There is always a coach on duty to organise players into fours and we do our best to ensure that everyone is included and that the sets are well balanced.
UPCOMING EVENTS/COURSES
JUNIOR AFTER-SCHOOL SQUADS: The winter term will finish on the w/o December 15th and the new Spring set of courses will be available to book soon. The squads will be available in the COACHING section of this website in early December. Parents with children attending the current winter squads will be notified by email when the new courses are available before they are advertised externally.
JUNIOR SOCIALS
The Friday after-school kids socials will run until December 19th and then we take a break for the holiday period until early January. 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.