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,…
Swing into the festive season Do you know the difference between your jigs and your reels? We know someone that does and, backed by one of the South’s top traditional dance bands, that person will be calling the shots at our Christmas Barn Dance & Ceilidh. Squinty McGinty (pictured), a four-piece band plus a caller,…
Ping pong, party on Question. How many players can be involved in a game of table tennis at the same time? Answer. Thirty if the game is being played between members of Fishbourne Tennis Club. Perhaps not a Guinness world record but it was certainly the highlight of a fun evening at The Fishbourne Centre.…
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…
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…
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…
The pros serve at 120mph or more, so how fast are our serves at Fishbourne? We are about to have a competition to find out! Generation Tennis have agreed to lend us their speed gun so we can start a club speed-serving leaderboard. Who’ll come out top? JJ – he in the picture above –…
Around 30 club members left their racquets at home and enjoyed an evening playing with balls of a very different kind on Friday 9 May. This was Fishbourne’s second petanque competition and showed that tennis and the classic French game bring out much the same in people, notably a fiercely competitive streak! With Fishbourne’s part-time…
FRONT CAR PARK FISHBOURNE CENTRE FRIDAY 9 MAY, FROM 6pm Come and try your hand at the great French game of petanque! Great fun, highly competitive All equipment provided Expert tuition from members of the Arundel Petanque Club The famous Fishbourne barbecue Drinks from the Fishbourne Centre Just £2 per head! (bbq extra) Once again…