Social Tennis
Dear Members,
We’re excited to let you know that the next Saturday Social Tennis session will be a trial of a new format, incorporating a mini-tournament-style event.
The aim is to make the session as enjoyable, social and inclusive as possible, while giving everyone the opportunity to play with a variety of members and get plenty of tennis.
For this trial, we’ll be making a few changes to the usual format, including timed doubles rotations, mixing partners, and moving between courts based on results and ability. The session will remain relaxed and friendly, and is suitable for players who can rally consistently and keep the ball in play.
We’d really appreciate your feedback after the session. This is a trial, so your views will help us understand what works well and whether there are any changes we should make before deciding on the format going forward.
Saturday Social Tennis
- Date: Saturday 12 September
- Time: 2:00–4:00 pm
- Start time: This format will work best if everyone arrives and starts at the same time. If you arrive after 2pm we may not be able to include you as players will have been allocated to courts.
- Warm-up: 15 minutes
- Sets: Timed sets/rounds following the warm-up.
- Starting courts: For the first set, players will be placed on courts according to their ladder position and/or team level, with players matched as closely as possible by ability.
- After the first set: The winners stay on their court but split up and play with a new partner. The losing pair move to the next court, split up and play with a new partner, and so on.
- After tennis: Cakes will be available, and we’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
- Trial period: We plan to run the mini-tournament format every Saturday for a month to help establish and refine the new Social Tennis format.
- Review: After the month, we’ll review how it has worked, with the aim of developing a format that can run without the need for a regular organiser.
- Attendance: An attendance poll will be posted in the Social Tennis WhatsApp group a few days before each Saturday.
- Other socials: For now, Sunday and Thursday Social Tennis will continue as usual.
We hope you’ll come along, give the new format a try and, most importantly, enjoy the tennis and social side of the club.
Thank you for your support and feedback.
