CLUB OPEN DAY APRIL 17.

JUNIORS 10.00-12.00

ADULTS 2.00-4.00

Please come along and invite any potential new members.

Strictly Mixed Doubles… Coming to a place near you… January, February, March 2010

If playing more tennis is one of your new year’s resolutions - then you’re in luck! Keep reading for more information on a great mixed doubles opportunity… Get in touch to register your interest and then we can enter our club team…

Deadline for Entries: 1 December 2009

Dear Tennis Convenor and Mens and Ladies Tennis Captains

We are hoping to bring back the popular winter indoor mixed doubles league to run on Sunday evenings from January to March next year. David Lloyd at Corstorphine have kindly offered courts and the ESLTA Board have volunteered to help make it happen!

No club fee is required – just a commitment from active clubs to provide a captain/contact, ‘home’ team balls and three mixed couples for each fixture. Current David Lloyd members will play for free and non-members can enjoy the indoor courts (and relax at the bar before, during and after!) for the special reduced visitor’s fee of £7.00 per head per match day.

The exact structure of the league will be finalised in response to the level of interest but it is anticipated that clubs would play a maximum of 6 matches during the 12 week period. The format of each match, as before, will be 1 tie-break set against each of the pairs in the opposing team. It is geared for adult players but juniors who currently play in club senior teams may be included.

To secure the court offer, draw up basic rules/fixtures and give good notice to teams, we would appreciate an early response from yourselves At this stage, this should be in the form of an email confirming your club would like to enter one or, maximum, two, teams with the name, email and phone number of a captain/contact who will be responsible for each team.

Although captains are entitled to include any club member in any fixture in order to fulfil availability, we would ideally like to see a list of up to 12 likely players – 6 Men/6 Ladies – as a basis for each team. This would help the organisers in forming appropriate playing standard leagues/groups as well as giving your captains a realistic start for their job of team creation!

Entries by email by December 1:

Please do get in touch if you wish to discuss any of this.
We hope it can run in a friendly manner with the emphasis on the social as well as the competitive but it does still require commitment and some good communication to ensure enjoyment for all ….

Kind regards and looking forward to hearing from you.

Christine Windmill

Here’s the draw for the Joyce Fernie Memorial Tournament.

To ensure the tournament is played by the end of October, we suggest that that each round is played by the date specified…

Good Luck!

It has been suggested that there is another social evening at Murrayfield Lawn Tennis Club. One suggestion has been for Thursday evenings….  Another is for Saturday afternoons as the winter is fast approaching….

Any thoughts or preferences let us know….

The mixed doubles event hasn’t yet taken place - so the committee has decided to hold it over the month of October.

It will be called the Joyce Fernie Mixed Doubles Tournament, in memory of a fondly remembered club member.

Sign up sheets will be up from next Tuesday, or you can email Sally if you’d like to play in it.  Partners will be drawn  and matches will be by arrangement.

Good Luck!

The finals of this year’s Club Tournament took place at the weekend…

In the ladies singles competition, congratulations to winner Eileen Gillespie &  runner up Sheila Rennie.

Eileen also triumphed in the doubles with her partner Lindsey Watt with Karen Robertson and Linda Humphries the runners up.

In the men’s competition, victory in the singles was claimed by Ricky McEwan with Dylan Egglestaff as runner up - the men’s doubles final is yet to be played.

Congratulations to all winners, runners up and everyone else who took part.

The mixed doubles competition is still to be played - apparently a slight shortage of men to play with the ladies! Any man that can be persuaded to play - please sign up in the club!

One very important thing that we’d like you to do is to help us get the Club database into the best possible shape - please help us! Please download this Excel Spreadsheet open it, fill it in and send it back to membership@murrayfieldtennis.co.uk. We will only be using this information for Club purposes and will not be selling or using this information for any other purpose.

Thank you very much!

Download Spreadsheet Here

If you have any problems or need it in a different format - then just give us a shout - membership@murrayfieldtennis.co.uk.

Any budding wordsmiths or literary geniuses out there? If you’d like to see your words in print (or on screen as the case may be) then we’d love to show you how. A recent web session was held - and editors Doug, Douglas & Greg have already been posting various news and views to the site.

To join them, please just drop us a line - membership@murrayfieldtennis.co.uk. Likewise - if you wish to write the newsletter - look after the Murrayfield Facebook Group or be a MLTC Tweeter then please let us know. Juniors particularly - if you’re reading this and want to give us a hand then we’d love you to be involved - just get in touch.

Our coach Norman has another hidden talent - he can also be relied upon for all your restringing and new grip requirements & offers a great deal to Murrayfield LTC members.  Restringing Prices can be downloaded here - or get in touch directly with Norman for more information.

Norman’s contact details are:
Email: just.play@tiscali.co.uk
Mobile: 0775 691 2666

Club Coach Norman McGinley is also offering some Adult Coaching and will be running some coaching programmes to teach older dogs some new tricks - hopefully… More details to be posted on the website shortly.