Fishbourne Tennis Club is now registered with the Lawn Tennis Association. To maximise the benefits – including the chance to get Wimbledon tickets – all Fishbourne members are urged to sign up with British Tennis Membership. THIS IS EASY AND FREE. The deadline for this year’s Wimbledon tickets is the end of January 2015. STEP…
PUT YOUR NAME DOWN NOW TO JOIN THE BALLOT FOR WIMBLEDON TICKETS! Fishbourne Tennis Club has entered 2015 as an affiliated club member of the Lawn Tennis Association. This great news will mean lots of additional benefits through your tennis club membership. David Lord, FTC chairman, explains: We are pleased to advise that the Fishbourne Tennis…
G’day all. Thought you might be interested in a note from Australia. The Redcliffe Tennis Centre (an hour north of Brisbane, and famous as the town where the Bee Gees started out!) has embraced me as one of their own. It’s quite a place – all shiny and new, a dozen courts, hard and synthetic grass,…
No, not to light the things…more to help with a bit of crowd control and, most important, shake a bucket under the noses of the visitors so they can pay up! If you have never been, the Fishbourne fireworks display – this year on Friday 7 November – really does go with a bang. It’s…
Middleton v Fishbourne – Away – Sunday 21 September – 3 mixed pairs The sunny clime and calm skies were an auspicious background to Fishbourne’s fight to recapture club pride in a return friendly against Middleton. Team captain Luke McEwen chose three strong mixed pairs for this latest match following a heavy defeat the previous…
Great tennis, a good turn-out, smiling faces and fine weather characterised Fishbourne Tennis Club’s Finals Days 2014. Held on a Saturday afternoon for the first time, the action began at 1pm with the Mens’ Singles Final and concluded with two new competitions, for juniors – well done Ben Jameson and Callum Budd – and a Chairman’s Invitation…
How many sports does that advice apply to? Certainly tennis, golf…and now, we discover, croquet, too. Members of FTC enjoyed an evening this week learning the croquet ropes with our neighbours, Fishbourne Croquet Club. If you haven’t seen where they live, have a look – they have a surprisingly large and private grass playing area…
Make a note of the date now and be sure to come along and enjoy the biggest and best Finals Day in Fishbourne Tennis Club history! First match 1pm. Thrill to the excitement of the ladies’ doubles! Gasp at the power of the men’s singles! Revel in the rallies of the juniors! Plus Fastest serve…
A highlight of the Open Day on 12 July was a speed serving competition for members and visitors. Using a special digital sped gun loaned for the occasion by Generation Tennis, Wimbledon wannabes dreaming of that 130mph ace queued all afternoon to see if their serves really were as fast as they thought they were… Oh,…
Fishbourne Tennis Club is going from strength to strength in 2014. Twenty seven new members have signed up since April, many taking advantage of the club’s special membership offer to encourage more families with junior members to join. That offer – £75 for one adult and up to two juniors, £150 for two adults and up…