It is essential that everyone continues to follow the social distancing guidelines, so:

• Doubles play is now permitted with people from outside of your household, as long as you remain 2 metres apart as far as possible – meaning that four people from different households can now play doubles
• Stay at least two metres away from other players (including during play, when taking breaks and before and after play)Take particular care when changing ends.
• Do not make physical contact with other players (such as shaking hands or high five)
• Avoid chasing the ball down to another court if other players are using it
• For doubles, consider agreeing in advance which player will take the shot if a ball travels to the centre of the court
• Players do not now need to use their own clearly marked tennis balls – however, if you choose to use shared balls then extra care must be taken to ensure you do not touch your face during play, and you should clean your hands before play and immediately after finishing (use alcohol gel if required)
• Players should still avoid using their hands to pick up tennis balls from other courts where possible - use your racquet/foot to return them
• Please do not play for more than one hour, if all courts are occupied
• Please limit general socialising on the courts and in the club grounds. While we can now socialise in groups of up to six we don't really have the space for multiple groups to do this at a 2m distance.
• We will continue to monitor how busy the club is and depending on this we may introduce some booking system and/or agreed court allocations. However, for the time being all courts are unallocated.

The full LTA guidance for players may be read here https://www.lta.org.uk/globalassets/news/2020/lta-guidance-for-tennis-players---covid-19.pdf