NEWS ON MONDAY 8th APRIL 2024

🐣 JUNIOR CAMPS AT EASTER🐣

Tom the coach, as well as all our Juniors have managed to avoid a lot of the rain in the first week of the school holidays! There are still a spaces for this week. You can book for a day or the whole week. Check Tom’s coaching page on Clubspark to book your place. Don’t forget friends and family are welcome to play in the School Holidays even if they aren’t members, however would need to then join if they wish to take part in the term time coaching. Now fingers crossed this persistent spring rain stops and everyone can enjoy some Easter Tennis in the spring sunshine.

TW Tennis Coaching / Holiday camps (lta.org.uk)

QUIZ NIGHT – FRIDAY 19TH APRIL – 7PM ONWARDS

Save the date!  The club will be having another quiz night on Friday 19th April starting at 7pm. The bar will be open and our head coach Tom will be quiz master! Prizes for the winning team!  The cost of entry is £2 per person and there is a maximum of 6 in a team. All proceeds will be donated to Children with Cancer UK, Tom’s chosen charity that he is raising money for in the lead up to the London Marathon on 21st April 2024.  The sign-up sheet is now in the clubhouse just inside the door to the left. Look forward to seeing everyone there.

🐤 EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIP – IS NOW FINISHED

The ‘Early Bird‘ membership is finished. All categories’ are now full price!

Please be aware at this time of year, Caroline and Frances will be dealing with a vast number of membership forms and enquiries and will process them as quickly as possible. Please bear with us, they are working as quickly as they can. Any queries email secretary@shltc.info who will answer when she can. This will be the last week that last years email lists will be used, only those who have renewed their memberships for this coming year will receive emails from this week onwards.

HOW TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP

– Membership is renewed through OUR Website from the membership page, NOT the Clubspark or LTA website. Clubspark is only for lessons, court & social bookings!

-If already a member you will already have a username and password. You can reset the password yourself, however, if you have forgotten your user name please email secretary@shltc.info. You will be replied to ASAP but remember it can take a few days, with so many to process at this time. New members can join completing the form through the website.

-When completing the form please be aware that if you choose to NOT be on the emailing list you will not be kept updated with all that happens at the club, such as the links to Socials, Monthly American Tournaments or Kids/Adult Courses.  Therefore you will need to check the website regularly for the weekly news.  We only email about tennis club matters and your details would never be shared.

-Once you have completed the form (you must put something in every field) You will receive a confirmation email with BACS details. However the BACS details are in the RED BOX , top right hand corner of the form, so you can make a note of them at that point as well, before you submit the form. (Once you have submitted a form you will receive an email with payment details (check your junk)

-Once the form and payment is received, Adult Members & 13 and over Children will receive an email to access court booking which you need to follow if your wish to be able to book courts and book onto socials (please check your junk box). This may take a few days in busy periods. All members will receive This Years Coloured Tag and a Welcome Letter which explains what is available at the club. Everything you need to know about the club is here.

🪜MYSTERY OF THE MOVING LADDERS🪜

It seems some little fingers have taken to moving the information around on the Ladder Leagues Board, which is very frustrating for everyone involved in the League. If you do see little fingers playing with the board, could you please explain to them the importance of not moving the pieces! Everyone’s help is much appreciated, thank you.

🎾SUMMER TEAM NEWS & RESULTS🎾

Good Luck to all our teams playing in the Summer Leagues that have now started. It seems its not the Spring rain interrupting play last weekend, but the high winds making it difficult

Kent

Mixed 1 lost 3-1 to David Lloyd Kings Hill. The team playing were Maria Perfect, Mark Plonka, Diana Roberts & Francesco Donadio.

Men’s 3 lost against Knoll five on sets, in extremely windy conditions. The team playing were Sam Morgan, Jiggs Sahota, Perry Rich & Chibuike Ejiegu.

Men’s 2 lost 2-2 against Dartford, in a very close match. The team playing were Jack Andrews, Iain Goosey, Matt Snellin & Viktor Petkov.

Ladies 2 won a close match against Gravesham. The first match for this new team. The opposition had an injury in the final championship tie breaker and had to retire, The team playing were Alberta Bosco, Stacy Yeh, Tracy Davy and Caroline Maponda. Thanks for the photo ladies💕

The first round of the NK Cup starts this week with Francesco Donadio and Mark Plonka taking on a pair from Blackheath Tennis club in the Men’s Vets competition. The match takes place on Wednesday 10th April on Court 1 starting at 6.30pm. Please come along and support if you can.

 EASY FUND RAISING – YOUR WEEKLY SHOP CAN BE MAGIC

Your weekly food shop can help Shooters Hill Lawn Tennis Club to raise weekly free donations! Plus, shop with Tesco, Morrisons, ASDA, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Iceland, and Ocado this April, and you can win back the cost of your shop! Sign up to easyfundraising to support us for free, and don’t forget to shop with your favourite supermarket for a chance to win: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/shltennisclub/?utm_campaign=pmc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=thebigshop-fb1

KENT TENNIS

You can view all the latest news from Kent Tennis on the following link: https://www.kenttennis.org.uk/klt