Dear Tennis Members
The Tennis Committee is delighted to tell you about improvements that are being made to social tennis. These sessions are extremely popular at the moment, which is great to see. But we feel that everyone should be able to get a place at Social Tennis (for the majority of the time). Therefore, the following changes are taking place:
Tuesday Social Tennis (7-9pm)
- On Tuesdays, instead of 4 courts, there will be 7 courts booked for Social Tennis. This means that 28 members can be accomodated with no waiting.
Key points to note are:
- The sign up process will remain the same, through your MyCourts login - you will be able to sign up from the Wednesday before.
- The sign up process will remain the same, through your MyCourts login - you will be able to sign up from the Wednesday before. But on Saturday afternoon (3 days before the session), numbers will be capped to the nearest 4, and courts released for members to book. For example, if 15 people have signed up, capacity will be limited to 16 and 3 courts will be released for other to book.
- On Saturday evening (3 days before the session), numbers will be capped to the nearest 4, and courts released for members to book. For example, if 15 people have signed up, capacity will be limited to 16 and 3 courts will be released for others to book. This gives you a 4 day window in which to book - it does mean that if you want to book within 3 days of the session, you may not get a place - but we feel that this slight loss of spontaneity is a good trade-off in order for everyone to be able to play and for the session to be well organised.
- The session will continue to be organised by coach Eugen, but we will try to avoid big gaps in supervision, for instance during the summer holidays. We will aim for about 46 weeks of the year to be supervised, instead of the current 40 weeks.
Friday Social Tennis (at a new time of 7.30-9.30pm)
- This amended start time will allow for more courts to be booked for Social Tennis. 5 courts will now be booked for this session which, we hope will allow for everyone to play the majority of the time.
- The same system as Tuesday will be used, with slightly different timings. You must still sign up, which you can do from the Saturday before - but numbers will not be capped or courts released until the day before the session. This is because there is not such a demand on the courts at this time. So your window to book and be guaranteed a place will be from Saturday to Thursday at 7.30pm.
Friday Social Tennis will now be coach-supervised for the first hour. The aim will be for it to be supervised as often as possible – we have 2 coaches lined up – Sam G and Omid and who will, between them, supervise the session for the majority of weeks. And we are in the process of finding a third coach who can cover the remaining sessions.