Ladies Matches

Ladies 1 & 2 on top!

New Ladies’ Captain Alison Nicholson had a great start this summer with both Ladies Doubles teams winning their divisions.  Some of the ladies’ squad celebrated their successful summer season with social tennis and trip to the pub and thanked Ali for captaining with flowers and bubbly. Read on to see her report on the last Ladies’ match and how it was reported in the Wokingham Paper…

July League Roundup

Mark Callaghan, Alison Nicholson, Jenny Sheppard and Joe Forrester playing for Mixed 2 at Home Park, Windsor.

June Match Reports

The month started with  a 4-0 win by Ladies’ 1 at home against Royal Ascot 2 in Division 4B and finished with wins for all three Mens’ teams…

May Match Reports

Our new 10U Mixed team is running away with the title in their division with two matches left to play….

Good start for teams in Summer League

Six wins out of six for Crowthorne’s teams in opening weeks of the season….

…and “double bagels” for Partridge & Norman against Bradfield, Phillips & Blatchford against Cav Park and new member Michael Harris in his singles against BCS!

Plus reports on our 6 junior teams including a win against Windsor A for our 18U Girls, an exciting loss against Bradfield for 14U Boys A and a 6-6 win for our first ever 10U Mixed team!

March Match Reports

Wins in the last round of the Mixed for the 1st and 2nd team but a loss for the 3rds who, nevertheless, enjoyed their cream tea and cucmber sandwiches at Phyllis Court – see above…

January Match Reports – 2019

The new year started well for our Men’s Teams with two wins and a losing draw. Men’s 1 hosted Bisham Abbey 1 with their strongest team and if we could field these players for every match the team would be higher than 4th in Division 2.

Later in the day, Ladies’ 2 gained their first points of the season with a 4-0 win away at Shiplake in Division 7 and the following weekend Ladies’ 1 won 3-1 at home to second placed Marlow in Division 3 and our 18U Boys won their first match of the winter against Wokingham in Division B.

The following weekend, Mixed 3 all but secured their place in Division 5E with a 3-1 win against Sonning and on the last weekend of the month, there was the full gamut of results, a clear win and a loss and two 2-2s, one a win and the other a loss.

October League Roundup

With a month of the Winter League completed we’ve had two rounds of Men’s and Ladies’ matches and a round of Mixed. Read on to find how we’ve been getting on…

June League Match roundup

Congratulations to our first Ladies’ team who have won Division 5B with a match to play.

Summer matches – round 2

Round 2 of the Summer League matches started on Saturday 21st April with Men’s 1 at home to Bisham Abbey 1 in Division 2 while Men’s 2 were away at … Read more…

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Places must be booked in advance via the Members’ Area and selections will then be confirmed on the morning or evening before the event.  Please do not turn up if you have not been selected as you will be turned away. Players are selected on a first come first serve basis usually in multiples of 4 players.  Note that none of these sessions is suitable for beginners.

  • Note that the Committee tries to accommodate the wishes of members, within the constraints of time and 4 courts, but a session for each ability level is the guiding principle.
    • The Friday session is for recreational and higher players and runs from 6pm to 8pm
    • The Thursday 5:30 session is for intermediate players and runs from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
    • The Thursday 7:30 session is for intermediate and advanced players including potential team players and runs from 7:30 to 9:30pm.
    • The Tuesday session is for advanced players and runs from 7pm to 9pm. 
    • In all cases you must commit to the full two hours.
  • Before the session you will have been told by the organiser your starting court, your partner and your opponents.
    • These will take into account each player’s normal playing standard with the best players starting on court 1 and, with 16 players, the least able players on court 4.  However, the organiser may occasionally decide to organise it differently such as a “lucky dip” for starting court & partner.
    • In addition, for the Thursday 7:30 session, the organiser will take into account any pairings for matches at the coming weekend.
  • Play is split into 3 rounds lasting 40 minutes each.  Play 1 set with normal deuce scoring.  If you finish early either carry on or mix in your 4.
    • If you haven’t finished the set after 40 minutes and the scores are level, play a sudden death point
  • At the end of the 40 minutes the winners of the first set played move up a court, the losers move down a court (court 1 is the top court). Winners on the top court stay, as do the losers on the bottom court. If you didn’t finish your set then the pair winning at the time moves up.
  • Pairs then split partners with the pair joining them and you play a second round.
    • Partners are selected by spinning rackets or using common sense to try to get a balanced 4.
  • Exactly the same happens for the third round.

Drop-In club nights are, as the name implies, more informal sessions than the bookable ones and you can arrive and leave when you like.  Those attending organise themselves, changing who plays with whom after most present have completed a set, although there’s often a more senior member present who  will take charge if needed.

We are currently running 2 Drop-In  sessions for all levels from Starter upwards…

  • The Tuesday session has recently been rebranded for All Levels and runs from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.  If you want to sit out and watch, maybe with a drink, you can do that too.  If you’ve arrived early for the 7 o’clock session, you’re also welcome to join in.
  • The Wednesday session is for all levels of player including beginner and usually runs from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
    • You can expect members attending adult coaching to join in.
  • The Sunday session is for All levels and runs from 3:00 – 5:00pm.

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