August 2012


Following their successful qualifying event at Nottingham, the 12&U girls’ team travelled to Bolton to compete in the National Finals.

Burton on the Wolds Tennis Club have received £50,000 from Sport England.

In order to become an Full Referee (accredited) and referee Grade 5 competitions and higher, you will need to attend and pass a Full Referee course.

Leicestershire boys & girls teams competed in the 12&U AEGON County Cup at Nottingham Tennis Centre on the weekend of 30 June/1 July.

Refereeing is one of the ways to be involved in competition and a referee is the person who is responsible for supervising all players at a competition to ensure they follow the rules of tennis

Barnaby Thorold from Loughborough Town Tennis Club and Siabhan O'Gorman from the Leicestershire club won the county leg of the prestigious HSBC Road to Wimbledon tournament, a national singles tournament for under 14's.

Sam Ashcroft from Breaston won the 38th Jack Britton Singles Trophy at Nottingham Tennis Centre on the weekend of the 4th/5th August at Nottingham Tennis Centre.

Following the re-development of the Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport (LRS) website, we are offering all clubs the chance to work with LRS to promote your sport across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. 

On a bright afternoon 40 Royalists (almost) gathered to ensure that all 10 courts would be in use for what would turn out to be one of the most successful doubles tournaments – since the Golden Jubilee 10 years ago! 

Anna (second from left on front row)

Congratulations to MyTennis youngster Anna Chesca of Loughborough who has been selected as a member of a GB trip to compete in an 11U French Tennis Federation event in Cergy, France.

The National Tennis Centre played host to the AEGON Team Tennis Premier 12&U-18&U Finals as eight winning teams were crowned as Premier division winners.

Tennis Leicestershire have recently moved to a new office at the Dan Maskell Tennis Centre at Loughborough University.

The Leicestershire Men's Team are celebrating after winning promotion from Group 3 at Cambridge at county week. Read the full story here....

Tom Kisiel

Tom Kisiel crowned a wonderful week at the Leicestershire Senior County Closed by taking his fifth consecutive Men's Singles title. See the full story of the tournament here....

 
 

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