Hi Everyone.

Please remember all relevant Junior Tennis documentation can be found including previous newsletters on the Club Pitchero Website in the Junior Document section

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/reigatelawntennisclub/d/documents.html? group_id=5751.

Just ctrI+click to follow the link and download from there.

FRIDAY EVENING JUNIOR TENNIS SESSIONS 1ST SEPTEMBER

Just to let you know that the Kidszone courts are out of action tonight as they have just been resprayed. All play will take place on our main courts.

WINTER JUNIOR TEAM TROPHY

In past years, Surrey Tennis has run a Little League Team event during the Winter Season for U10/U11 players. This Winter they have replaced this event with the Junior Team Trophy which is based on the Junior AEGON Team Tennis model. A team will consist of 2/3 players and will play singles/doubles rubbers. Each team will be put into a Box League of 3. Box league winners will move into a knockout draw.

There will be Boys and Girls Teams for the 11U, 13U 15U and 17U age groups. For each age group, players must be that age or younger before or on 31st March 2018. The Box League Match Dates are:

11U – 21st Oct, 18th Nov, 13U – 28th Oct, 25th Nov, 15U – 4th Nov, 2nd Dec, 17U - 11th Nov, 9th Dec.

Teams must be entered by 17th September. To help with team selection please can you let me know if you don’t want your child to be considered for the teams a.s.a.p.

SUCCESS FOR JOSH WILSON AT THE NATIONAL 18U CHAMPIONSHIPS

Josh Wilson recently travelled to Nottingham to play in the 18U National Championships. He had a very successful week in reaching both the Singles and Doubles Finals but unfortunately lost in both Finals. Congratulations to Josh on a good week as he continues to climb in the rankings on both the National and International front.

JUNIOR TRAINING CAMP IN ALICANTA

Our coaches James and Adam recently took a party of fifteen juniors to Spain for a week of training camp and competition. They were joined by Javier who had recently left our Coaching Staff to return to his native Spain. They spent most of day at the Club de Campo Alicante where there was a weeklong competition and used the facilities there for their training camp base. This was a Country Club Style facility which not only provided excellent tennis facilities but also included a full size Olympic swimming pool. The players all worked hard during the week and played some competitive matches during the tournament. Congratulations on a successful week.

JUNIOR PLAYER RATINGS

Ratings will automatically change for some of our Mini Tennis players on the 1st September so listed below and congratulations to the following players who have improved their ratings over the last few weeks up to 31st August:

MORRISONS SOLICITORS REIGATE OPEN TOURNAMENT

The club recently completed its annual Open Grade 4 County Tour Tournament. Our coaches James and Adam once again performed Refereeing duties for the Tournament whilst I handled all the administration roles. Deborah Hamlin our Chairman coordinated the event.

After a slow start with our entry numbers we finally had 182 entries from 151 players covering 18 events and played over 240 matches over the seven days.

The results are shown below with our club players shown in bold:

There were a lot of good performances from our Junior Players as can been seen from the results. Congratulations to Anna and Jack for winning their Singles events. Special mention to Anya, even though losing in the U12 Girls Final, putting up a fierce resistance to her opponent which kept both the crowd and BBQ queue totally engrossed for over two hours.

Congratulations to Charlotte and Sofia for winning both the U18 Girls and Open Women Doubles event and to Charlotte and Dad Jason for winning the QUORN Family Tennis Cup event.

The Tournament once again generated a surplus in the region of £2,400 for the club.

Richard Skalsky

Junior Chair