Sunday Funday – September 7th

Competition, Squash, Tennis, Tournaments

To celebrate the start of the squash season and the completion of the tennis season, we are having a squash & tennis Fun Day at the Dean Club. Join the club for an afternoon of squash, tennis and BBQ from 2pm!

Squash: We will be running a handicap squash tournament and racquetball taster sessions.

Tennis: We will be running a tennis tournament where you play with different partners every 15 minutes to try and win the most number of games: we will have prizes! This tournament is fun for all levels of tennis, and because you keep swapping partners you will play a wide range of people and abilities. So whether you are a complete beginner or play regularly, come play the mini tournament!

We would be grateful if you could sign up to the event so we know roughly how much BBQ food to provide, and how many will take part in the day’s events! Please send any questions to Sarah at sarah@lowmanio.co.uk.

Sign up here:
http://doodle.com/bqg5btv6ctpsn6wy

Great British Tennis Open Day at Dean

Tennis

If you want to play tennis come and have a hit at Dean’s beautiful courts in the West End during the weekend of 21st-22nd June. It’s a free event, open to all. Club members will be on hand to show you around and to play tennis with. You can see what the club has to offer – including our newly refurbished squash courts. We look forward to seeing you. Book a session for Saturday or Sunday – or just turn up.

Tennis Social Starts This Weekend

Tennis

Following the recent survey of member interest in re-establishing a regular and defined social tennis session, it has been decided to run this on Sunday afternoons, from 2-4pm. Members will be encouraged to stay for tea afterwards. This Sunday the 19th will be our first session – come play and then have some cake!

The LTA is running an initiative called the Great British Tennis Weekend that will see tennis parks, clubs and venues across Britain open their courts to members of the public over the summer. Dean Tennis Club have registered to take part over the weekend of 21st-22nd June, where we will open the courts to the public. We hope that members will be on hand to show people around and to play tennis with. More details, including posters around the club, will follow shortly.

Racquetball Championships Starting

Squash, Tournaments

Hi All

I am about to put the 2014 Racketball Championship on Notice Board, it will be the same arrangement as last year, all play each other in one league, best of 5 game, American Scoring, the winner is whoever got the most points. this will start from May to August, this give you all plenty of times to play in about 4 month than last year!

If you do want your name to be add to this, please let me know ASAP.

Yours in sports

David Thompson

2014 Tennis League Starts 14th April

Leagues, Tennis, The Club

The singles tennis leagues are restarting on Monday 14th April. To join up please send Patrick Jones your contact details (ideally mobile & landline) & preferred starting division assuming 4 divisions with 1 being the strongest.

To keep matches to about an hour or so, the first player to win 9 games wins the match. To encourage people to play, points are awarded as follows: 2 points for playing a match, 1 point for each game won and 3 points for winning the match i.e. a maximum of 14 points per match. Typically the two players with the most points will be promoted and the two with the fewest will be demoted. See the clubhouse board for the detailed rules!

Good luck and have fun!

“Born to Win” Tennis League

Competition, Tennis

A tennis league is being organised in Edinburgh by an organisation called Born to Win.  It aims to run competitive singles leagues all over the UK for club to county standard players. The leagues run over two months with 5 people in each league and provides the opportunity for competitive match play and a chance to improve you LTA rating. If you are interested in getting involved in the league, details of the current round is here:

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/event.aspx?id=BA751D49-1F78-4EAB-B9AB-8E96311C1555&event=1

To enter the next round, details are here:

http://www.lta.org.uk/Competitions/Competition/?ctn=1-ZQHPYO

Squash Club Night Launch

Squash, The Club

We’ve discussed the results of the survey for the relaunch of club night and decided the following…

Club night will be from 7.40-9.00pm on a Monday night. The initial format for club night is going to be flexible until we find out how many people turn up. We will start by sticking to traditional scoring, unless there are large numbers and the matches will be best of 2 games. The format for launch night on Monday the 24th of March 2014 will be (roughly):

6.20pm Warm up hosted by Amanda
7.00pm Club night will start
8.20pm Pizza and nibbles
8.45pm Wine tasting hosted by Richard Maspero (subject to interest)

Hopefully this will give people the flexibility to come along some time between 6.20 and 7 then play squash for an hour before having a nice social get together upstairs in the function room.

We’ll have to request a small fee for the relaunch night if people intend to stay for food and drinks but there will be no charge for the squash. If people could email Sarah and Richard to let them know if they intend to stay on for pizza and wine so we can get numbers, that would be great. Any questions, please contact Matthew.