Month: October 2024

Congratulations to our Mens Essex team! Having dropped to Division 2 of the Essex Open Doubles League after last summer, the team is straight back up to Division 1 for 2025! The team have taken top spot in their division having been unbeaten this summer, in fact losing only one rubber in the process! Vey well done to all the players involved – Dan Sanderson (captain), Greg Huggett, Arron Chandler, Jonathan Oates, Stefan Protic, Tom Reader, Dan Thrale and Oli Mason.

A great afternoon’s tennis in the sunshine! Thanks Steve for organising the End of Season American Tournament. And there were two new winners of the trophies! The Beresford Marshall Memorial Trophy went to the winning man, David Joseph, whilst the Deb Saund Memorial Trophy for the winning lady went to Suzy Bassett. Congratulations to both!

An excellent evening at the club for the presentation of trophies to this year’s club tournament winners and to officially switch on our new floodlights on courts 1&2. Club President Bob Guthrie presented the trophies and, in addition, all winners were given a mug with the photograph taken on finals day of competitors in their event. Club Captain Steve chose to award the Player of the Year trophy to Gill Sanderson. After the presentation, our Head Coach Oli Mason was given the task of cutting the ribbon to mark the successful completion of the installation of the new floodlights which will significantly help with the continued expansion of the club’s coaching programme. Thanks were expressed to Mark Taylor for all his hard work managing the installation project. And finally, many thanks to everyone who came along to support the event.

Great to see a good number of WLTC members competing on finals day of the Leigh & Westcliff Summer Tournaments.  There was an all Westcliff Lawn affair in the Senior Mixed Doubles event when Duncan and Sarah Ball took on Adam and Sarah Jolley, with Duncan and Sarah coming out on top.  Success also for Chrissie and Sarah Jolley with a straight sets win in the final of the Senior Ladies Doubles event. Adam and Tom were victorious in the Mens Doubles Plate event, whilst Darren and Duncan faced tough opposition in the final of the Senior Mens Doubles and had to settle for the runners up spot. Bad luck also to Sue Sergeant who lost in the Ladies Singles event. Finally, commiserations to Alison and Suzy who sadly didn’t get on court. They were due to play against each other in the Senior Ladies Singles Plate final and together in the Senior Ladies Doubles Plate final, but due to injury, Suzy was unfortunately unable to play either match. Well done to all our players!

A lovely evening for tennis and the return of the midweek mixed doubles tournament thanks to Tom offering to organise. Twenty people joined in, playing six rounds of 10 point tiebreaks, each one with a different partner. Suzy kindly recorded the scores so that Tom could step in at the last minute to make up numbers on court. Well done to the top point scorers, Jane from the ladies and Peter & Mark jointly from the men. And finally thanks to Angela for opening the bar afterwards. A very enjoyable evening!