‘RAMP’, guidance for a good warm-up Highgate’s own strength and conditioning coach, Piotr Narecki explains the importance of warming up before you play, especially when it’s cold! With this cold and humid weather, a good warm-up routine is absolutely essential. Not only will it enhance your performance but it will also significantly reduce the risk […]
New adult coaching sessions starts Monday 5th January – 15th February for 6 weeks – sign up at the club house or book a course by emailing coaching@highgate-tennis.co.uk Highlights of programme as follows: Beginners – there are three beginners courses – Monday (morning and evening) and Saturday mornings Improvers, intermediate and advanced are all catered […]
Help needed for Sound Ball Tennis For Partially Sighted and Blind Players The game is played with larger balls that make a noise when moving so that the players can hear. Once the ball stops moving the players can’t hear the noise to guide them so need sighted players to help pick them up, help […]
22 people turned up for the festive session, 23 December which turned out to be eventful: Mark Ross received a red card and 3 week ban for cheating when he recorded an incorrect score Phil tried to upgrade his image with a festive Santa hat. I think the jury is still out as to whether […]
Merry Christmas, festive holidays and a happy New Year to all our members. A big and heart-felt ‘thank-you’ to everyone who has worked so hard to make 2014 such a successful year for the club. We look forward to seeing everyone back in 2015, fit and ready to start the new season. Best wishes Highgate […]
The bar will be closed Christmas day and News Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The bar will be open Boxing Day from 10am-2pm. Normal operating hours on all other days. Happy Christmas and New Year from Chanya and Amy.
Just one week to go in the current ladder session. If anyone would like to be added to the new ladder session (Jan to end of April), or if you are currently in but want to drop out of the next session, then please send me an e-mail (richard.rogers@dsl.pipex.com) Thanks Richard
We had another successful mixed doubles tournament last weekend, with 6 pairs competing in a round robin draw. The competition was very close, but after some hard fought matches Galileo West & Nicky Wellfair were the champions with 4 out of 5 wins. Paul Coldwell & Rich Tusting (who was an honorary woman for the […]
The doubles ladder is now welcoming new pairs to get stuck in on January 1st, to build on the success of the last two months in which: 16 matches were played 4 more challenges outstanding Only 4 out of 27 pairs have not yet been active Overall good activity without taking up too much court […]
We are holding a mixed doubles tournament at 1pm on Sunday 14th December as an alternative to social tennis for the afternoon. All the details are here. Sign up in the clubhouse or email Nicky Wellfair nwellfair@hotmail.com. If you would like to play but don’t have a partner then arrive early and we’ll pair you up […]