coaches clean up competition Jun 09

 Members of the Avenue Tennis Club gave up their Sunday morning in bed to give the club grounds a good spring-clean. Simon Prior allowed the members to use his gardening power tools to speed up the process and ensure that the workers were able to start their clean-up competition at 12:00pm.

Club chairman Gordon Hunter and Angela Marshfield narrowly won the competition by one point, beating Lenny Cameron and Gordon’s wife Pat. Head coach Vinny Duddy was really pleased to see Junior Academy players Josh Christison, Georgina Cameron and Vinny’s daughter Heather participate in the competition. He would like to thank all the people who turned up on the day and gave up their time to make the club spic-and-span, bearing in mind the upcoming Open Day and Centenary events to follow. The next major event at the Tennis Club will be the Annual Open Day on the 5th July, starting around 11:00 am. The day will be attended by Tony Pryce Sports, Prince Rackets Demonstration team and the Lucozade Sports Science Team. There will be free coaching and fun games for all the family, the bar will be open serving hot and cold drinks, food will be available together with Strawberries, Cream and Pimms which will be served during the Wimbledon Men’s Final which will be shown on large screen in the Tennis club.

The tennis club is also celebrating its Centenary Year and will be organizing a Centenary Open Day on Saturday 19th Sep and an Open Tournament on Sunday 20th Sep. The following weekend, 26th September, is the Centenary Ball; the black tie event will have dancing to a DJ and local band Riverbrew in a Marquee set up at the tennis club. Tickets are priced at £40 and will include a meal and a complimentary drink which can be obtained at the club.

The Avenue Tennis Club is a friendly, family oriented organisation whose members enjoy excellent facilities with 8 floodlit courts and a large clubhouse including bar facilities. Friday nights is family night where members and non members are encouraged to come down to either the adult coaching or club doubles match play. Junior members enjoy free organised fun tennis sessions for up to school year 3 from 6:30pm till 7:30pm, school year 4 and upwards from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. School year 7+ members have organised match-play from 8:00pm. If you want any details about membership or other coaching courses which run throughout the week then please contact Head Coach, Vinny Duddy on 01278 782758 – www.avenuetennis.co.uk.