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Diary dates for Spring/Summer 2012 at BTC 

February - new floodlights ready to use
5th-10th June 2012 Weiss v Bewdley Twinning

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NEW FLOODLIGHTS

A bright new future dawns for Bewdley Tennis Club, our contractors have now completed the installation of floodlights (picture of test lighting above) on the final three courts - we now have all seven courts floodlit. The existing floodlights have all had new bulbs  and are also now in tip top condition.
More information about this major improvement for our club will be posted shortly.

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BUT... It's early Feb and Winter has really arrived, the only play on our courts will be snow-balling !!

Then along comes Pete and "hey presto" we are back in action !!

 

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Geoff Barrie says......

HALF TERM CAMPS


This Tues 14th and Thurs 16th February
Click HERE to see flyer for details

Mini Tennis Camps and Touch Tennis Tournament

There will be mini tennis camps for the 5 to 11 year olds, 9.30am start.

Junior Touch Tennis Tournament for 11 to 18 year olds

There will be a Touch Tennis Tournament for 11 to 18 year olds
Starting at 9.00am details from Geoff.
Come and join in the fun at the Tennis Club.
Friday junior night as usual 5 - 8pm, and the next challenge of the 4 Counties Cup - 10am - 4pm

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Club Spring Newsletter 2012
plesae click HERE to read about all the latest Club news

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Subscription Time
Subscription time has arrived again.
Just click   HERE  for the 2012 subscription rates
& "how to pay" details.

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Junior Newsletter

All the junior section news,  A MUST read !!
just click HERE to view the newsletter,
to return to this page, just click your browser's back button.

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Come and enjoy an evening at the clubhouse on

Sat 11th February at 8.00 pm

There will be an Illustrated Talk by

Richard Perrin

A River Runs Through
An Illustrated History of Bewdley

Just click HERE for full details

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Bewdley Tennis Club
2012 Ladies Open Doubles Tournament

To be held at the club on Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Prompt start 9.15am.
Entry Fee: £11.00 per person including lunch & glass of wine
Morning tea & coffee available

Click HERE to see our poster

Click HERE for more details & entry information

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Want to see the first serve ever at Bewdley Tennis Club!

click HERE and you can view
Alderman Frost, the club's first President
doing just that back in 1924.

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Junior Presentation Evening

A good turnout had a great time
click HERE for full details

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Four Counties Inter Club Challenge

The first ever Four Counties Inter Club Challenge was held at the club recently.

The brainchild of Head Coach, Geoff Barrie, Bewdley (Worcs) welcomed players from Shifnal(Shropshire) Chipping Camden(Glos) and Halesowen(Staffs).

Each club fielded four U14 age group boys, none of whom play regular competition tennis. The round robin singles format gave all the players valuable match experience, and left them asking for more such events.

The home club was represented by George Carroll, Joe Fish, Pierce Sloan and Ryan Giles.

Bewdley head coach Geoff Barrie said “there were 24 matches played altogether, with sportsmanlike conduct displayed by all the boys. All in all a great day’s tennis.”

Shifnal were the victors with 11 wins, and returned home with the cup.

The next round will be on November 26 th when the clubs will bring 2 boys and 2 girls, again U14, and play a mixed doubles tournament.

There will be stiff competition to take home the cup!

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Good Luck Jack !!

Jack George-Burnell, 17, has been nominated by the club for the junior male sports person of the year category at the Herefordshire and Worcestershire County Sports Awards.

For the full story just click on our "Juniors" page

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our mini tennis winners
see Junior page for full results

The club is running a full junior programme of coaching throughout the Winter with Friday evenings also continuing under the floodlights,and Geoff, our professional coach,plans other competitive opportunities during the Autumn and Winter.

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Summer 2011 League Results
Hot off the press!
Men's A,B and C are promoted...
The A were runners up to Manor Park for the second year running,superb result!
The B won their division with Jim and Alfie Sylvester not losing a rubber all season,and final result awaited for E team to see if they too will go up.
In the Ladies' the A has bounced back into division 2 after an injury blighted 2009 saw them relegated,and the B will end either 2nd or 3rd.Sadly the C are going down.
The mixed A ended mid table and next year the C will join the B in division 4!

Overall this is a promotion rate of 40%, so congratulations to the club and team captains for their hard work as well as all the members who represented us.

Click on "results and teams" page for more results

Jenny

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What happened ?

Club DINNER and PRIZE GIVING

Held Sat. November 12th

Wharton Park Golf Club
click HERE to find out

 

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Ladies' Christmas Meal
At the Bailiff's House
Wednesday 14th December
7:30pm for 8:00pm
36 places available £27.50 a head.
Please sign up in the clubhouse by 7th Nov.
Deposit of £10 by 7th Nov & Balance by 7th Dec.

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STOP NEWS......
Well done Jack George-Burnell for winning the Hereford Worcester County Closed U 18 title for the 3rd year running! Jack beat Liam Hadfield 6-7,6-0,6-2 and also went on to win the U18 doubles with Ollie Simper and the mixed doubles with Lucy Simper. Both these titles he also held last year.

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Early Autumn and lots happening ...  just check us out


Click HERE for 2011 Club membership application form

Geoff Barrie, our professional tennis coach, offers a number of excellent courses
for all levels.....

Please click HERE for next Women's Term Term Time Tennis starting Monday 12th September
Click HERE for Adult Beginners Course (ABC)
Click HERE for Adult Coaching & Cardio Tennis
Click HERE for Junior Courses

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Club Open Day–Great Success

I have just finished putting the new members on a list, and because we are not having a committee meeting next month, we thought you would all like to know that on the Open Day we had 7 adult 14 Junior and 5 Social membership forms handed in. The nearest new member Steve and Lindsay, from a few doors away and we have a Country Member due to join later this week from New Zealand!! We also had lots of people sign up for courses, ABC, Cardio and the summer Junior coaching courses, 30 to 40 more membership form were taken home on the day and they could be returned in the next 2 weeks, so we hope the committee have already booked their places on any courses.

Thanks to everyone who helped, inside and outside the clubhouse, it was all rather frantic at times. The younger members, Jack, Mike, Jack, Ali, Alfie, Nancy, and the lads from Halesowen, who were all involved on court worked so hard helping, with coaching, games and keeping the ball machine full of balls, Also Geoff and Dave for the flyers and signage around the area. Thank you.

I think the car park attendants were working at a more relaxed pace, sun loungers and book reading under the shade of the trees at the high school - that was the report back to the frantic club-site crew.
A great effort by all,
Thanks ....Jackie

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Junior Social (aged 11 - 18)
every Friday

A chance to play for fun, competitvly, in box leagues and tournaments and play the coach.
All junior standards welcome.
Times are 6.30-8.00pm every week.
£1 each week.

For further information, call Geoff Barrie 07838 236691.

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Term Time Tennis
Exciting New Initiative For
Women to Play Tennis

We have just completed a second term's course with 28 players, half of whom returned after the Summer term.

At the tournament held during the last session we had Wyre Forest Press Dept present,and Jo Morris from County LTA also came along.He told me the following week that he was hugely impressed both by the numbers but also the standard.

Jan Adams, the mayor, dropped in for a cuppa and was most impressed, as did Dale Evans from WFDC who has given us support from the beginning, especially with generously printing our fliers.

We are delighted that as a result of these courses we have welcomed 23 new members to the club since they began.

Next course is for the group who started in September,and commences January 23rd 10-12.

Another will be run in April for new participants.Watch this space!

A huge thanks from Jenny,Dawn Jill and Jo to Geoff and
we would like to thank everyone for their support, incuding WFDC, Bewdley Town Council,the Tennis Club Endowment Trust,and County Sports Hagley.

The cost is only £3 per session pre-paid.
Interested? - contact Geoff Barrie on
mobile 07838 236691 email to GBTennis@googlemail.com

Click HERE for a printable application form for this course

For more photos of a recent course
Click HERE

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The club has been awarded Clubmark status by tennis's governing body the LTA.

Clubmark is a system across all sports and recognizes clubs which have achieved excellent standards in areas such as child protection,development programmes for players of all abilities,facilities and management.

Photo........Tim Merrison (left) presented with Clubmark Award by Joe Morris of the LTA

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Welcome to our WEBSITE, we hope you like it, any comments most welcome, just contact Tony, Phil or Tim

last update 11;00am 8-2-12 AJM

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