Schools Roadshow - a massive success

The Club held a successful week of introducing tennis to many local children.

Tennis sessions were held in local schools followed by an Open Weekend at the Club.

During the Open Event, local primary school children (and parents) enjoyed a fun tennis session, with tennis games, inflatables and activities, in our indoor centre.

Many thanks to Phil, a British Tennis Coach, who visited local schools and organised the sessions at the club. Many of our tennis leaders helped on both days too and were all amaxing. Also, a big thank you goes to all the club volunteers who helped throughout the weekend.

Excellent result by the U14 boys team

The 14 and under team travelled to Swanmore on Sunday to play their second
Aegon League match this Summer.

With Mark Mackie injured, Jack Murn joined the team for his first league match and performed really well. Andover Boys beat Swanmore by 5 matches to 1. An excellent result. Well done boys.

Basingstoke Winter League success

Great success from our teams during the Winter Season in the Basingstoke League:

The Mens 'A' team won Division 1

The Mens 'B' team came second in Division 2 and promoted to Division 1 for the forthcoming Winter season.  

Thank you to all the team players for representing the Club.

Plus a big thank you to the Captains for their hard work in organising the teams.

Tennis Juniors start with a win...

Congratulations to the Club’s U14 boys team who recently beat Lee-on-Solent in their first match in the Aegon Hampshire Team Tennis U14 League. Well done Kyrill, Mark, Myles, and Jacob on a great performance.

Please click to read a full report.

A snowy day at the Club...

touchtennis event a great success...

Andover Tennis Club held their first Touchtennis event at their indoor Centre last Saturday. Touchtennis is a fast-growing adaption of the game of tennis, played with sponge balls over a small court. Players are allowed only one serve, there are no lets and a sudden death deuce is played. This makes the games move swiftly onwards. The sponge balls make the game exciting for all ages and abilities and mean that adults can compete with young players on an equal footing. The event was organised by Josh Gook and Ed Percival, new coaches at the club, who are both excellent competitors in this game and great supporters of it. 24 club members, ranging in age from 7 years to over 70 years took part in a great morning of fun and enjoyment. The competitors played doubles and were divided into 3 sections for a round robin challenge, followed by semi-finals and a final.

Please click to view full report and pictures.

Floodlights now available on the outdoor courts...

The floodlights are now in place for use on the outdoor courts.

• The fee for the outdoor floodlight hire will be £4 per hour per court and can be booked in the normal way via the Clubspark on-line court booking system. 
• When using floodlights for the outdoor courts, the booking must be a minimum of one hour. Please ensure you select this in the timing ‘pull-down’ option when booking your court on Clubspark.
• As with any booking, the access gate is programmed to open 15 minutes prior to your booking. When using the outdoor floodlights, they will also automatically turn on at this time.
• The lights will automatically turn off when the booking ends.
• A 'safety light' (the floodlight by the court 3 access gate) will be lit throughout the booking and will turn off 5 minutes after the booking ends to ensure players can leave the courts safely.

The Committee would like to thank all the members for their co-operation during the installation and hope you enjoy the added facility to the outdoor courts.

Introducing Josh, our new Head Coach

Andover Tennis Club is delighted to welcome Josh Gook as our new head Coach for ALTC from January 2018.

His company, JGTennis, will be the coaching provider and Josh and Ed will be working with Martyn, George and Bash to provide all the coaching at ALTC for our adults, juniors, minis and schools.

Josh is a Level 3 Coach and is taking his Level 4 award in 2018. He is an excellent player and is a young man with great enthusiasm, drive, ideas and experience. 

Please click to view

- Josh's full intro

- how to book your place on a coaching programme

 

Waitrose Community Matters - Club awarded £300

Following the support from shoppers at Waitrose Andover during September, the Waitrose Community Matters initiative has awarded the Club £300...

The money awarded will go towards essential equipment to complement the amazing facility.

Thank you to Waitrose Community Matters and everyone who has supported this Scheme.

Smashing Charity Tennis Day with Davis Cup Pros...

Bright Ideas for Tennis in association with The Tennis Circus recently bought Davis Cup tennis to our club.

Club members of all ages joined Davis Cup pros for a selection of masterclasses from minis to adults drills.

The Club was very grateful for this opportunity and enjoyed a wonderfully instructive and entertaining day. Refreshments were served by the Club's social team. 

A profit of nearly £300 was made, which (at the Davis Cup Pro's request) will be used to take tennis into Andover Schools next summer.

Please read the full report of the day.