Club News - Archive

Date for AGM - Thursday 6th March 2008

The AGM is scheduled to be held at 8pm on Thursday, 6th March in the club house. Further details and an agenda are available in the Members Area.

Latino Evening with Cocktails and Snacks – Saturday 23rd February 2008

On Saturday 23rd February, we have arranged for a duo of Latino guitarists to play at the club. They come highly rated and play anything from light Latino music to Gypsy Kings. To keep the rhythms flowing even more smoothly, we will be serving cocktails and snacks! Tickets will be available shortly, and numbers will be limited so get this date in your diary and book your friends too (non-members are welcome as always). The evening will run from 1900 to about 2300, price per ticket is £10 if booked by 16th February, £12 thereafter.

Christmas Party – Saturday 15th December – Tickets Selling Fast!

Just to let you know that we have already sold more than half the tickets for the Christmas party, so you need to book soon if you don’t want to miss out. Non-members are of course welcome to attend with you. And remember, if you haven’t booked before 30th November, the price goes up from £25 to £30! (I have copied the details below again for ease of reference.) STOP PRESS: SOLD OUT

Better Showers!

We have had water pumps and new mixers installed to increase the water pressure in all the showers in the Men’s and Ladies change rooms. You will find them a huge improvement, and in this cold weather there’s nothing better than a hot invigorating shower after you have played!

We have also fitted better quality toilet cisterns in the Ladies toilets, and these together with the extra pressure from the pumps should help prevent the frequent blockages we have been experiencing

2007 Christmas party

A date for the Xmas party has been set... 15th December – Moroccan theme – watch this space for more details.

Update on Re-Surfacing and New Fencing - Courts 1 to 4

Courts 1-4 have been resurfaced and are available to play on. They should drain better in the rain which means more tennis!

Social Tennis - Tuesdays and Thursdays

Now that autumn is here, organised social tennis on Tuesday evenings has finished, but it will continue on Thursday evenings throughout the winter. The cost will be £1.00 per person which will cover floodlights, and we will also be providing good used balls free of charge. In addition, all alcoholic drinks from the bar will be half price between 2000 and 2130!

Social Tennis – Saturday and Sunday Afternoons – New Format!

Social tennis on the weekends will of course also continue throughout the winter! But we will be trialling a new format from the weekend of 6th and 7th October which is used by a number of other clubs, as we are confident that everyone will enjoy it! So come and see what it’s all about……

The Second Scott Hampton Charity Day – Saturday 29th September 2007

The Scott Hampton Trophy

Dear Mark and Everyone at Westside

What a wonderful day!!!

Wade and I want to thank everyone who took part and helped to make the day such a success and to tell you we made over £1500 for Scott's Charity-The Scott Hampton Foundation for Burkitt's Research. THANK YOU!!

Big special thanks first to ALISON for creating and organising the First U12's Junior Tournament in memory of Scott-played and enjoyed by a group of terrific boys and Lila Simpson (niece of Hugo Simpson-Scott's great friend) who won the Consolation Prize beating alot of boys!

The Final was fought with very good tennis between INIGO SLIJEPCEVIC and FELIX BLOM- who won at the end of the 2nd set tie break. WELL DONE! And Thank You to our great ROGER TAYLOR ,who presented the boys with their trophies!

The 2008 Scott Hampton Junior Tournament is already being planned! Thank you,Alison, for your great example,energy and generosity of your time.

Thank you to all the following for their amazing help, support and enthusiasm making the American Tournament possible, and without you, it would not have happened!

LIZA, who organised and motivated us into action, along with WENDY and PENG making sure we all knew what we were doing! Just AMAZING-and there on the day-non stop-the Barbeque became the centre of happy eating and chat. Mouthwatering cakes baked by Wendy and Liza- then PATRICIA, who came for a social afternoon but never made it beyond the barbeque with her apron on and cooking nonstop with Liza (and Peng and Wendy between sets!). And thank you LUCY for your yummy Pimms! Meanwhile, JENNY, our Raffle Ticket Queen, with the help of JILLY and MARGUERITE, chatted up all contestants and visitors to happily part with their money-THANK YOU ALL!!!

And a huge Thank You to ELIZABETH with the support from KEITH, who turned a chaos of 52 to 56 players into organised games-6 sets were played with great precision!

And finally, Thank You, MARK (and all your helpers) for being there from the beginning and coordinating the day!!!Thank you SO MUCH!!!

And lastly, thank you to all the sponsors: SAINSBURYS (supplying all the Barbeque food),ROBERT HOLMES,PWP for the tennis balls,YONNEX,SHAFTESBURY DENTAL(AMIT),HEADMASTERS

PLUS Thank You WENDY,PENG and JENNY for more Prizes for the RAFFLE!!!

Scott was there in spirit and his great passion and love for tennis was realised by all of you with your enthusiasm and the huge generosity of your time and money. His Charity for Burkitt's Cancer Research is such an important cause-a rare and aggressive disease of which very little is known in terms of a cure. It is hoped through our Charity and the support of leading medical professors and doctors, actively involved in this field of research, more lives can be saved in the future.

Stephanie and Wade Hampton

Trustees

The Scott Hampton Foundation for Burkitt's Research Charity No 116860