Questions, questions, questions…but do you know all the answers? Here’s your chance to bring out your inner nerd and show everyone how smart you are (or not!) at the Fishbourne Tennis Club Quiz Night! This fun event – with smashing prizes! – is being held at 7pm on Friday 13 February in the Blue Room…
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,…
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.…
Keats probably didn’t have tennis in mind when describing Autumn as the season of “mists and mellow fruitfulness” but the club continues to move forward with a warm and welcoming programme of events. Next up is a change of sport as we leave behind the cold and damp conditions outside for a table tennis tournament…
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…
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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…