Tennis in Surrey Magazine 2016
Magazine published by Tennis Surrey showcasing 2016.
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places<br />
Performance Squads and <strong>2016</strong><br />
Junior Champions.<br />
The club and its committee have<br />
worked hard to ensure two brand<br />
new artificial clay courts were<br />
opened with a special exhibition<br />
match featur<strong>in</strong>g Wimbledon hero<br />
Marcus Willis.<br />
After play<strong>in</strong>g Touch<strong>Tennis</strong> and<br />
present<strong>in</strong>g awards Marcus said<br />
he was impressed by the set up<br />
at Redhill. “There’s a great vibe at<br />
the club with all members clearly<br />
enjoy<strong>in</strong>g the new courts, fresh ideas<br />
and bigger coach<strong>in</strong>g programme.<br />
The club members and sessions<br />
look great fun to play <strong>in</strong>.”<br />
The adult section was large but<br />
numbers hadn’t <strong>in</strong>creased for<br />
some time, so the club and I acted<br />
quickly by offer<strong>in</strong>g Wednesday<br />
even<strong>in</strong>g improver sessions,<br />
Saturday lunchtime club sessions,<br />
S<strong>in</strong>gles Ladder and Monday night<br />
drills sessions.<br />
Club Chairman Derek Avery<br />
said: “We knew we needed<br />
weekend sessions and had plenty<br />
of people want<strong>in</strong>g competitions<br />
through w<strong>in</strong>ter, so with five<br />
floodlit courts, why not get the<br />
lights on and have people hitt<strong>in</strong>g?<br />
We’re delighted see<strong>in</strong>g the courts<br />
busy.”<br />
We have big plans for our club<br />
and look to cont<strong>in</strong>ue to grow <strong>in</strong><br />
the community. Local schools<br />
are look<strong>in</strong>g at us<strong>in</strong>g the bespoke<br />
junior courts for matches, more<br />
open days, coach<strong>in</strong>g offers and<br />
membership <strong>in</strong>centives are also<br />
planned.<br />
I hope that by shar<strong>in</strong>g our story<br />
other clubs may f<strong>in</strong>d some ideas<br />
to help boost their numbers and<br />
<strong>in</strong>spire players of all ages.<br />
David Earl<br />
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