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Olney Tennis Club
New Court opened by Mayor of Olney
Olney Tennis Club’s new floodlit court was officially opened by Michael Hughes, the Mayor of Olney on a day when the courts were packed from 9am to 5pm with players ageing from three years old through to adults. A big crowd (see photo) watched the opening ceremony.
The Mayor, who was accompanied by his wife susan, declared the court open by cutting the ribbon (see photo) and said “i am delighted to open this new court at an already very popular community club”. Club Chairman, simon barter, thanked the Mayor and the other important guests from the lTA, the lions and the Masonic Club, who with the national Hockey Foundation, had given Olney £47,000 out of the £50,000 project cost. simon said, “our club has grown a great deal in the last two years, and with this new court, we can continue to develop the club successfully so everyone can enjoy playing at Olney”.
The tennis started with the 3+ age group and continued through the ages until a Parent and Child Tournament was run with lots of entries. This was won by the Parker family (see photo). After the ceremony, the club ran its first 32 person American Tournament after a hit the tin with your serve competition won by Andrew barr. The Tournament was held in good spirits and Chris Wright and lynda baker ran out the winners against Phillipa blois-brooke and Daniel Cornwell. The prizes were handed out by Kim Durden, the owner of new Tournament sponsor, Davis Optometrists (see photo).
Come to our Open Day on Sat 14 May between 10am-12pm
you can meet the Coach and Committee members and have a knock so come along and see how you and children can enjoy tennis at Olney.
Winter Team successes for Olney
Olney put out a record 5 Mixed teams
over the winter and the A team, captained by Gavin Fowell, and The D team, captained by stuart Ayling, won their leagues after an unbeaten season and were promoted. The b team, captained by Chris Wright were third and just missed out in their league.
The Juniors continued their strong performances with the 12 b, u15A and u15b all winning their leagues. Well done to all the players who played for Olney.
Summer Teams
We are running a record number of adult teams this summer to give everyone a chance to play for the club. The same goes for the Juniors where besides the leagues, we will be running a record number of competitions.
Next American Tournament
This will be run on sunday 22 May at 2pm. enter in the club house or call 01234 241065.
Successful Quiz Night
We ran our annual Quiz night at the Football Club and 95 people took part in a very social affair. We raised money for the Junior Programme and Comic Relief.
Thanks to our local sponsors!
We are very grateful to Davis Optometrists who are sponsoring our Tournament programme for 2011/12 and Olney Private Hire who are sponsoring the 2011 summer Junior programme.
Check out Olney Online
Just go to our website: www.olneytennis.net for the latest news, photos and membership forms.
Join Olney Tennis Club
everyone is welcome at our club so come and try us out! Call 01234 701938 or go online.
PETER FABER A LOCAL
FOR YOUR HOME & GARDEN Tel: 01908 210826/07546 442 963
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