Our annual general meeting will be this week at 4pm after tennis on Wednesday at the boat club. Here will be a quick review of the year, plans for the future, and most importantly nominating the new committee into being. Click here to see details of each job so you can have a think who would be good for each position, or even if you would like to be on the committee yourself (looks great on a CV!). Absolutely anyone can nominate and be nominated.

Adavcned squad training is cancelled today due to a lack of available players. It has now been moved to Monday, and monday nights for the forseeable future. The captain of forthriver has thanked us for participating with them and they have really enjoyed the tennis but they have asked if we could contribute £2-3 each toward the cost of the floodlights and courts from now on. Also those wishing to join forthriver full time should do so soon and make use of the cheap as chips student membership at £20!

Brendan Wright recommends tennis.com for any questions you have about tennis or any tips you need for your own game. It’s got some pretty cool videos to help. So click here check out http://www.tennis.com

A few opportunities have arisen for budding tennis students

1/ There is an all week singles & doubles tournament being hosted in Larne on 1st - 5th May. It’s quite a popular tournament, so if you#re interested please email asap to get some enty forms.

2/ There has been an email from a tennis coaching facility in america that is trying to recruit coaches for their summer camp. You can earn over 500 quid and you get to spend some quality time in the states. For more information, read the full email we received here 

3/ Queen’s Club Stella Artois Championship are in need for stewards for the Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Quite a lot of top stars turn out to this event, and you may get a chance to properly meet some of them as the environment is a little bit more intimate than queen’s. If you’re interested why not apply at http://www.artoischampionships.com/1/home/default.asp 

The first advanced squad training session is tomorrow night at forthriver. We are meeting at 7pm at the union and are hoping to have enough lifts to get there. It will be a great chance to play with some good players, and discuss ideas for the future. Maybe head out afterwards. An update about how it went will follow.

We have progressed in fixing the problem that internet explorer seems to have with our website, so all those ie users out there I hope you get a better idea of what the website should actually look like!  Thanks goes to David Lowry for his tireless efforts in fixing it. We would still recommend Mozilla Firefox to view it best (or Safari for mac users). To download Firefox click here

Welcome back everybody. Here’s a quick run down of what’s happening on our first week back in the last part of term

Monday 7th - 7pm: Monday night tennis, matches only
Wednesday 9th - 1:30pm Wednesday tennis, coaching; 9pm: House party 44 Tates avenue
Thursday 10th - 7pm: First advanced squad training session

Don’t forget to keep challenging on the ladder. And visit the forum by clicking here.
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We trust everyone will have a well rested easter break for the up coming madness that is coursework deadlines and exams in early summer. Tennis will resume on Mon 7th April. By then hopefully we will have some news on the tournament provisionally booked for the 7th May, our trip to wimbledon, the agm, and the 1sts squad training. Our coach alex will only be with us for 2 more weeks after easter, so lets makes the most of him. He has very kindly given some of his techiniques for us to put on website and you can find them in the Coach’s Corner.

Our first endeavour into the district league has now been completed, and it hasn’t been an entirely unsucessful! We may have only won one game, but the A team in particular had many close matches which with more experience could have swung in their favour. The B team we well beaten on many occassions but it was just good to get some of our members out and playing matches. Even the B team showed vast improvement by the end of their last match.

Areas in which we can improve on for next year will be entering the Autumn floodlit league to get match experience early on, to have a better chance of being more competetive in the winter league. We will also look to run squad training sessions so we can get used to playing with each other. It would also be nice to enter a ladies team next year, so come on ladies!

In the end the ‘A’ team finished 4th out of a group of 5 winning 1 match and losing 4. The ‘B’ team finished last losing all their matches. For all results and tables check out the statistics page

All the basic lessons Alex has taught us on Wednesdays can now be recapped at our class coach’s corner section courtesy of the PTR. Click here or on the ‘Coach’s Corner’ link along the top to check it out.