Autumn 2012
Edition 3
Grosvenor Juniors
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We asked the team:
‘Who’s your
favourite current
player and of all
time?’
Contacts:
Kingsley Harris
(head coach)
07879 644218
kingsleyharris@
hotmail.co.uk
Grosvenor Lawn Tennis Club
Tennis ‘n’ Pizza ‘n’ sherbet
There was lots of tennis and
fun at the evening organized
by Gary (all time favourite –
Andre Agassi) Fourteen
players had a great time.
The winner was Charlie
Cutting, with Eloise Dawes,
Aaron Naish and Joel
Mundy close behind.
Charlie also won the
Louise Mundy
(club contact)
01708 228011
louiseamundy@
googlemail.com
coaching team:
Dave Dench
07771 627139
Ray Coulson
07971 410548
Gary Kruse
sherbet eating competition,
although that was an
unofficial event.
We hope to organize one
of these events a month,
and are also thinking of a
girls’ ‘bring a friend’ night.
We’ll be in touch
Mini Club Championships
Well done to all the mini
players who competed on
the 16th September. There
was a great standard of
tennis, and everyone had
great fun on the day.
as future umpires for
mini-Red tennis.
This was followed by the
10&under early rounds
and semi-finals.
Wonderful cakes and
refreshments were
provided, using the
proceeds built up by the
tuck-shop sales over the
summer.
07800 562540
Who’s your fave
player – and why?
Next tournament is
October 20th, and will be a
David Cup style team
event.
The mini Club
Championships were
played on one day, and
parents were trained up
Thank you to everyone
who turned up on the
day to support the
players, and to Kingsley
(all time favourite –
Stefan Edberg) and
Sharon (John McEnroe I know he was a bit of a
bad boy on court but
what a player) for
running a great event.
Junior Club
Championships
Well done to all the juniors
who organized and played
their matches during the
summer holidays
Results:
8&under mixed:
Harvey Daniels - winner
Henry Man – runner up
14&under girls:
Emily Stratton – winner
Eloise Dawes – runner up
18&under girls:
Emily Stratton
beat Jess Lovell
10&under boys:
Ben Rowe beat Ed Dawes
12&under boys:
Ben Rowe beat Teddy Smith
14&under boys:
Charlie Cutting beat Joel
Mundy
18&under boys:
Jack Overton beat Harry
Beadle
Doubles:
Joel Mundy & James Brindle
beat Harry Beadle & Olly
Beadle in a very close match
Thank you to everyone who
turned up on the day to
support the players.
Grosvenor Juniors
Evaluating the
coaching
programme &
junior
organisation
By the end of this month the
new junior coaching and
membership will have been
running for six months. With
this in mind the Club and
Kingsley would like some
feedback about how you are
finding things, what you like
or think works well and how
you feel things might be
improved. The Committee’s
main aim was to give
everyone the chance to
learn, play and enjoy more
tennis whilst balancing this
with the needs of the club
as a whole. We’d like to
know if we are heading in
the right direction!
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Coaching
Juniors are also invited to play in the
We are pleased to announce the total
number of juniors who are club members monthly tournaments. Please contact
Louise (Maria Sharapova –I was touched
is now up to 78. Not only are they
members but also many of them are using by her genuine emotion when she won her
first Wimbledon title) for more information.
the opportunity to play more tennis
generally outside of coaching hours and The coaching sessions are continuing to
grow in popularity and some sessions are
enjoying that too, If you are over nine
you are old enough to join them if you now full. We are also running additional
haven’t already. If you have been having afterschool groups on Mondays.
coaching for at least one block you will be
asked by your coach to do so. It costs £2 Kingsley will be sending out invitations to
per month (£14 until renewal date at the Performance Squads on a Friday. The aim
beginning of May next year) and you’ll get of the Performance Groups is to start
a court key and timetable when you can preparing for matches against other clubs
next year and to raise the standard of play
come and play.
generally.
Ask the Coaches
Welcome to a new section…..We asked the coaches who were their favourite players
in the current game and ‘of all time’. Some of the answers are scattered in this
newsletter – can you find them all? Apart from Ray (who said he was too young to
have an ‘all time great’ and Kane, who probably is!) everyone gave us their current &
past player…
Dave: Fav of all time, Vitas Geralitus. Died too early, but lived life to the max & could
play a bit too. For all of you, except Kingsley, Google him!
Kingsley: current - Roger Federer
Feedback from youngsters
and their parents will help
us plan for the future too. A
brief questionnaire will be
circulated soon, please fill it
in if you can.
Kane: Roger Federer - because he’s smooth
Ray: My favourite player of all time and current is Roger Federer - his movement
around the court is effortless, every stroke elegant and makes the game look so easy.
He is the ultimate all court player.
Gary: I don't really have a current favourite. Federer is a legend, Nadal's tenacity is
amazing, and Murray is a Brit so I'm obviously gonna root for him. But then I also like
the old battlers, like Lleyton Hewitt, and up until he retired, Andy Roddick.
Sharon: current favourite is Maria Sharapova.
Adult coaching programme
The adult coaching programme is also proving popular. We have daytime sessions on Tuesday afternoons and Friday
mornings
and Dave (current favourite – David Ferrer because he values every point and in any other era he would
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have won a Slam by now)) also runs lessons on Monday and Wednesday evenings. If you haven’t tried these out yet,
why not give it a try? Your first session is free (racquets provided) and they are very constructive sessions with a lot of
fun along the way. Why not ‘get ahead of the game’ for the spring? Please contact Dave about the coaching and
Louise about adult membership (which is available independently of coaching too).