Fishbourne Tennis Club would like to wish all FTC members and their friends and families a very merry Christmas and a new year of good health, good cheer ..and plenty of good tennis. More than 40 members of the club donned their best Christmas jumpers and hats and attended the Saturday mix-in on 16 December,…
Around 50 FTC members, many in fancy festive garb, enjoyed a fun morning of tennis, eating and drinking at the mix-in club session at the club on the Saturday before Christmas. A long established FTC tradition, Festive Tennis is always popular but this year fine weather and an excellent turn out ensured it was better…
The sun shone and the mulled wine flowed at the 2021 Christmas club session where FTC members traditionally bring out their Christmas jumpers. This year was no exception with plenty of colourful knitwear in evidence, as Nikki Holden’s pictures show. There was a great turn-out and all courts were busy for most of the morning,…
A rare break in the wet weather meant it was a packed club on Saturday 21 December with all courts in use for plenty of festive fun and frolicking good tennis. With only a short interruption for a shower, around 50 members enjoyed a game and a timely outing for the Christmas jumpers. Hot mulled…
The festive tennis lunch on Saturday 16 December saw chilly courts but a large turnout and abundance of Christmas jumpers and silly hats, lashings of hot mulled wine (thanks David Lord) and mince pies, followed by most of the M&S deli counter (thanks Bryan and Val) plus hot chips all provided free of charge to…
Christmas comes to Fishbourne Tennis Club on Saturday 16 December with the club session in the morning followed by a FREE members-only buffet lunch in the hall at the Fishbourne Centre. Tennis starts as usual at 09.00 and everyone is encouraged to wear something festive, whether a Christmas jumper or full elf or Santa outfit.…
FTC’s annual Festive Tennis day at the club just before Christmas brought out plenty of weird and wonderful costumes, not all of them centred around a red suit and white beard. About 40 gaily dressed people and one horse enjoyed the tennis, suitably fuelled by hot mulled wine, and a club-provided lunch in the Fishbourne Centre afterwards.…
Yes, it could only be the Fishbourne Tennis Club annual Festive Dress-up day, this year on Saturday 19 December, 9-1pm (with lunch to follow in the Blue Room). Playing tennis while in fancy dress is a Fishbourne tradition going back decades. And members do take this particular bit of fun extremely seriously, as the pictures below show……