After somewhat heretical talk of the tournament’s demise last year, the 21st Bill Standing tournament was held on Sunday 10 September. Lowering clouds and an adverse weather report did make play seem doubtful for a while, but not long after the schedule starting time 16 enthusiastic participants were assembled, and divided up into largely gender […]
Winter team matches will start around the end of September, and home matches will take place on courts 1 & 2 on Wednesday evenings. We have 6 winter Middlesex league teams this year, if you are interested in playing team tennis then please speak to the relevant team captain: Men’s 1 – Jack Luscombe (jackmluscombe@gmail.com) Men’s 2 […]
This year’s winter leagues will start on Monday 2nd October, Tuesday 3rd October & Thursday 5th October, replacing Tuesday and Thursday evening social tennis. Winter leagues are an internal doubles competition, and each evening is aimed at a different playing level. The definitions below are not set in stone, but are broadly: Monday nights Men up […]
ABOUT THE ROLE Highgate Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club is a thriving, member-run club in Crouch End, North London. The club has grown in recent years and due to the expanding workload requires a part-time and administrator and accounts assistant to support the administration of the club. We are currently seeking a highly organised person […]
BILL STANDING was chair of HC<C for over a decade before he died of a heart attack in the early hours of New Year’s morning 1996. He was in his mid-fifties. He was also the club coach and, along with his partner, Eamonn, built up the junior section from scratch. Bill spent nearly all of […]
Despite the weather resembling October more than August, we had a great two tournament weeks culminating in a fantastic finals day and summer party. A big thank you to everyone who helped out, and congratulations to all our winners! Final results can be found here.
The current ladder session will end at midnight 3rd September. (I’m allowing games to be played the first weekend in September). If anyone would like to be added to the new ladder session (September to December), or if you are currently in but want to drop out of the next session, then please send an […]
Highgate Tennis Club Summer Party this Saturday 5th August. It is a chance to dress up, drink up and celebrate Highgate Tennis Tournament Finals which start at 1pm and continue until approx 7pm. That is followed by the trophy presentations. Then the party begins with disco music, live music and Chanya’s famous Hog Roast which […]
Club Tournament – Draws Published The draws for the 2017 club tournament have now been published – full details can be found by following the link below: http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draws.aspx?id=EE3F67EB-5087-4B09-95B3-F49E5EA9B7B5 The dates indicated in the draws are ‘play by’ dates for each round, and it is up to players to contact their opponents and arrange matches. […]
This year’s Winston Edwards Tournament will be on Sunday 16 July at 1pm. Winston was a great supporter of our junior players, and so we will be having a mini tennis tournament open to all ages, where adult members can get to know some of our younger junior stars. Come down and join us for what […]