UPCOMING EVENTS/COURSES
EASTER HOLIDAY CAMPS
Just a quick heads up about the half term holiday camps this coming Easter before they are advertised publicly on March 18th. We will be running them for Red, Orange and Yellow Ball groups for 2 weeks.
Week one runs for 5 days from Monday 7th to Friday 11th April and Week 2 is a four-day course starting on Monday 14th to Thursday 17th April. Both weeks are on the website and are available to book now.
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 begin on April 22nd) are on this website and are available to book now. A full listing can be found in the COACHING/JuniorSquads section. 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
BOX LEAGUES and ENTRIES for SPRING TOURNAMENTS
The Men’s and Ladies Box Leagues have been extended to March 28th to give players more time to complete matches. Hopefully the weather will be a lot better this month!
The Spring Tournaments are up and running. Good luck to everyone who have signed up to play.
JUNIOR SOCIALS
The Friday after-school kids socials started up again on Friday 10th January 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.