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.

And that horse? We are reliably informed it was Keith and Mary, though we are not sure which way round they were…