Elliswick LTC Newsletter – April 2025

Welcome to our April Newsletter.

LTA VISIT

On the sunny Sunday morning of 27th April 2025, the new Herts LTA President Bridie Amos and the LTA President Sandi Procter visited our club.  They were welcomed by some of the Committee members and enjoyed a chat with refreshments in the clubhouse.  The committee also showed them around the club’s grounds. We felt honoured by their visit and enjoyed an exchange of ideas.

 VE DAY CELEBRATION – FAMILY FUN DAY – MONDAY 5TH MAY 2025                                 

This event is now oversubscribed.  If you wish to be added on the waiting list, please email Andree Haxton at [email protected]

 COURT ETIQUETTE

With the new summer season upon us, we would like to share the current ‘etiquette’ guidelines for Elliswick LTC. The club always gets extremely busy at this time of year, with multiple matches taking place and increasing social play as the weather improves. Please ensure that you are playing on the court that is allocated to you or booked for your games.

Everyone at Elliswick, both adult and junior members, should know the particular guidelines for ‘etiquette’ whilst on court. There will always be the odd occasion when the courts are extremely busy, balls will be flying across different courts and members will have to cross courts that are in use. When these situations do happen, let’s all continue to be patient and respectful of each other, so we all have a great summer of happy tennis.

We would like to wish every success to all teams for the upcoming season and let’s have a great summer of enjoyable and competitive tennis!

Please see the current ‘etiquette’ policies below

https://www.elliswickltc.co.uk/etiquette-around-tennis-courts/

https://www.elliswickltc.co.uk/book-a-court-2/

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Andree Haxton at [email protected]

 

ANNUAL TOURNAMENT- FINALS DAY 21st JUNE 2025

The tournament is well under way and thank you to those who already completed their first-round tournament match. Congratulations to all those players remaining in the tournament.  All the second-round tournament matches must be played by 17th May.  Ladies Singles & Doubles must be played by 31st May. Please can you ensure that you complete your match by the deadline dates and the winners put their names down on the result list.  Failure to complete your match tournament by the deadline will result in one or both players/pairs being withdrawn from the tournament. 

If you need a court for your tournament match during the club nights or social mix-ins, please contact Andree Haxton at [email protected], who will try to allocate a court for your match.  If you have any issues, please contact Louise Behan at [email protected] as soon as possible.

Finals Day is Saturday 21st June 2025. Matches will be played both in the morning and in the afternoon. In case of inclement weather, finals day will be moved to Sunday 22nd June 2025. Players wishing to play in the finals must ensure they are available to play on both days.

Line Judges

We are looking for members who can help with the linesmen/women rota for the 5 matches. Please contact Andree Haxton at [email protected] if you are able to volunteer.

MEMBERSHIP

Please can everybody check, and update (if necessary), your address and telephone number in Clubspark. It is your responsibility to ensure everything in your profile is complete and up to date.

This information is a basic club requirement.

To do this, help is available at the Clubspark website as per the link below:

https://sportlabs.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000358286-GDPR-Editing-Your-Profile-And-Details

If however you need to change your name, email or date of birth, these have to be changed on the LTA website at:

https://www.lta.org.uk/account-details/personal

If you have other queries about using Clubspark, you can visit their support page, submit a request to the helpdesk or chat with them during office hours. The link for this is:

https://sportlabs.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

TEAM TENNIS

The Winter matches have nearly come to an end with a few matches left to play. Please see results below.

All summer matches (Hot Rackets, Herts League, Datchworth, Mid-Herts Mixed and Herts National League (Mens)), fixtures have been arranged, teams agreed and squads allocated. Some of the initial matches have been played.

LADIES CAPTAIN – KC

2024 Winter vets:

TEAMS CAPTAINS DIVISIONS POSITIONS
40A G SMITH 3A 3RD
50A R HODDINOTT 1 5th
50B V AITCHISON 3A 3RD
60A G THORNTON 2B 1st
60B J SHERIDAN 3B 3rd

 

MENS CAPTAIN – JCG

2024 Winter Vets

TEAMS CAPTAINS DIVISIONS POSITIONS
65A D KENDALL 1 5TH
65B S SEGALL 2 4TH
55A S LOWE CHAMPIONSHIPS 4TH
55B T WARD 2B 3RD
55C K MITCHIE 3B 3RD
45A M BEHAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 3RD
45B P JACOBS 2A 2ND
45C J BISSEKER 3A 4TH

 

WINTER MIXED CAPTAIN – AM

2024 East Herts Winter Mixed

TEAMS CAPTAINS DIVISION PLAYED WON LOST DRAW
1 K CURSON 1 6 0 6
2 R GARDINER 2A 6 5 1
3 V AITCHISON 3A 5 2 1 2
4 S HALL 3B 5 1 4
5 D KENDALL 4B 6 4 1 1
6 C SHEPHERD 5B 6 0 4 2

 

Mid-Herts Mixed

5 matches have been organised and squads have been allocated.  The first two matches have been played with good results.

SOCIALS

Our first supper night of the year was expertly cooked by Jenny Stevenson with help from Gaby.  30 members enjoyed feasting in the clubhouse.  The first Bank Holiday Tournament on Monday 21st was a great success.  All seven courts were in play for the whole morning and a delicious lunch was organised by George Wright.

Next Social events:

MAY 2025

5th – VE DAY CELEBRATION – FULL

10th – New Members Day with reserve date 11th May. Any new members who wish to come along please sign up here: https://forms.gle/imzvSbyBdRuKv4LdA

13th – Mens Night Curry at the Club.  Please sign up here:   https://forms.gle/QLKauVecicn286sEA or email [email protected]

NEW DATE 22nd– Mexican Supper Night.  Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/qk9BzDat7zzpZHew5

26th – Spring Bank Holiday Tournament.  Please sign up here:https://forms.gle/UJnMJdgLsEvnmQLq6

 

JUNE 2025

4th – LADIES FIZZ NIGHT

12th – SUPPER NIGHT – We need a volunteer to cook

21st/22nd – FINALS DAY

29th – JUNIOR TOURNAMENT

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES COMING UP!

Sally Radcliffe is organising a trip to see Tina Turner Musical showing at The Aldwych theatre in London on Monday 2 June.

A trip to the Eric Morecambe centre to see commentator and Strictly contestant Annabel Croft on Saturday 15 November ‘From Tennis Balls to Glitter Balls’ is being organised. We have been given a 25% discount on ticket prices because we are an LTA tennis club! A sign-up sheet for this event is here: https://forms.gle/2Y4DP9zEPwqiWZox7

Supper Nights

We are still looking for some members to cook at our most popular Thursday night suppers on the following dates: June 12th and September 11th.

If you have any queries regarding our social events, please contact our Social Secretary at [email protected].

JUNIORS

The first Junior night of the year started on 25th April with a very good turnout.  Thank you to Katie Wake who ran the tuck shop for the juniors to enjoy. We are still looking for volunteers to help with the bar rota during our Junior Nights on Fridays.  Please contact Andree Haxton at [email protected] if you are able to help.

2025 JUNIOR TOURNAMENT – SUNDAY 29TH JUNE WITH RESERVE DATE SUNDAY 6TH JULY 2025

Entries are open on Thursday 1st May 2025.  Closing date for entries is Sunday 18th May 2025.

The Junior members can sign up to the Tournament where sign-up sheets are posted on the Junior board inside the clubhouse. The Tournament is open to all Juniors ages 8 and under up to 16 years old members of Elliswick LTC.

Matches will be played both in the morning and in the afternoon. All players must therefore be available to play their matches in both the morning and the afternoon, otherwise they may default the title.

Players wishing to play in the tournament must ensure they are available to play on both days (29th June and/or 6th July 2025).

Volunteers – The day can only run smoothly with the help of volunteers.  We are looking for willing volunteers to help with catering and scoring as there are so many games played throughout the day.

CLUB’S MEMORABILIA FOR SALE

As part as our Club’s Centenary last year, the Club is procuring some memorabilia for itself and for members, all displaying the ELTC Centenary logo. We have the following items for members to purchase:

  • Books – Some very smart books commemorating the ELTC Centenary for sale for £10 each.
  • Mugs – Members can buy a Centenary mug for £10 each.

If you wish to purchase a Centenary book or mug, please speak to Andree Haxton in person or email [email protected]. Payment will be arranged to be made either in cash or by card.

 LOST PROPERTY BOX

Please look through the lost property box (clothing, racquets, water bottles) in the clubhouse as the box will be emptied at the end of next week and the contents given to a local charity.

EASTER EGG RAFFLE

Thank you from Harpenden Lions Club and the charity SERV Herts and Beds (Blood Runners), to all who took part in the Easter Egg Raffle. Gross receipts were £70 and the Easter Egg was won by the Bisseker family (no. 156).

HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025 – ENTRIES OPEN – OPEN AND SENIOR EVENTS

This Adult and Senior event will take place over the next few months with the finals taking place on 30th August at Rickmansworth LTC. It is only open to players born or who live in Herts. You arrange your own matches up to the final, I will inform who is home and away. Draws with less than 9 pairs will be round robin groups.

Junior events will still take place in August.

We have also attached info on the Padel County Championships which is organised on the exact same basis with the finals day on 31st August at Broxbourne. For more information, please contact Jamie Broomfield at [email protected]

Kind Regards

Elliswick LTC Committee

 

PS, Don’t forget to keep up to date with events at our website http://www.elliswickltc.co.uk and follow our Facebook page as well.