May 2012


Check out what tennis news stories have been appearing in our local newspapers across Avon.

Older readers will remember Ray Venning, a life member of Avon LTA. Others will remember sending postcards of league results for him to record throughout the eighties.

The Avon 14&U County Cup Girls Team make it through to the National Finals in Nottingham!

Writhlington School, near Radstock, in Avon played host to the first Tennis Foundation/LTA Primary School Tennis competition of the season in Bath.

The Post 16 students took part in a in-house tennis tournament last Friday lunchtime. The event was organised and played by students currently studying at Writhlington’s Post 16 centre.

Lewis Fishlock with Dan Thorpe at the NTC

The AEGON Coach of the Month for April is 22 year-old Avon Coach, Lewis Fishlock, who began working at Rodway Hill Tennis Club in 2009. When he started the role he had no qualifications and volunteered his time whilst in full time employment. Over the next year he worked on achieving his qualifications and was appointed Head Coach in 2010.

Last weekend, 25 people from the tennis fraternity at Writhlington took part in a fund raising afternoon to raise money for the performance players from the coaching programme to go on tour to Torquay grade 3 tournament this year.

Clayton and Djokovic

Scott "Scholesy" Clayton became the latest Teambath MCTA player to register on the ATP rankings. He won his Main Draw match at the Aegon Newcastle $10k Futures against Nick Jones 67(1) 64 64.

Clevedon TC

Clevedon LTC are holding our Club Open Day on Sunday 1st July from 10:30am until 3pm.

 
 

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