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Autumn/Winter 2008 LINK TO JOIN BRITISH TENNIS MEMBERSHIP! After the summer holiday (August) break for our squad players I'd like to welcome you all back and hope your enjoying the new squad and mini tennis programs. Currently we are experiencing some disruption whilst the courts at the Riverside are being re-surfaced but all the courts should be back up and running as normal from October 8th giving us a fantastic playing surface for the winter months ahead. There have been some changes within the coaching/competition structure that we run at Tennis Plus. These changes have been made to fit in with the new guidelines set out in the LTA National Competition Framework and also to accommodate the additional Tennis Plus Academy Squad training sessions (details in coaching section of website) which will help us further develop our performance section by offering additional opportunities for coaching, fitness and competition. As there have been changes with the new ratings system I urge you all to visit the website www.lta.org.uk to familiarise yourself with the latest changes (there are now 4 opportunities a year to improve your rating). If you have any queries please don't hesitate to give me a call. I’d like to welcome on board two new young coaches Joseph James and Ben Griffiths who will be assisting me Ioan Evans and Jonathan Richardson with the Tennis Plus program, many of you will already know both Jo and Ben as they are among the strongest players to come through the junior section and I look forward to working with them both. MINI TENNIS Our mini tennis Centres based at Highnam Community Centre and Quedgeley Health and Fitness Centre are going from strength to strength with some 50 children now enrolled between the ages of 4-9yrs and links now set up with 10 schools to feed into this program. In the short time of running the mini tennis centres we have already seen fantastic developments with Matthew Evans, Max Timothy and Josh Timothy who have already come through the mini tennis set up and who are now in our Bronze Squad and Tennis Plus Academy training. There are also some fine younger prospects under 6 with Paddy Thompson, Joel Merrick and Tyler Baker among many others. Special Congratulations to Max Timothy who won our clubs first mini red tennis tournament which was held in September.Max was successful in an all “Timothy” final against his younger brother Josh Timothy. NATIONAL CLUB LEAGUE In the National Junior League a big thank you to all the players who represented our club "Gloucester LTC" In division 1 our Boys u16 team finished 2nd and our Boys u10,u12 and u14s teams all finished a credible 3rd and our Boys u18 team finished 4th in their leagues. In the National Junior League division 2 both our Boys u10 (Miles Johnson-Manley, Alex Wyllie) and Girls u12 team (Dayna Willoughby,Harley Franklin) were champions in their respective leagues.
This summer’s county closed saw the largest number of entrants which was pleasing to see as competitive tennis becomes more popular within our county. Congratulations to all Tennis Plus (Glos. LTC/Riverside) players who entered especially Miles Johsnon-Manley who had a fantastic run in both the boys under 10 and 12 events and winning the doubles event. Dominic Mcdonaugh who had another good run in this years event reaching the quarter finals for the second year running and Max Timothy who had a fantastic run in the mini tennis event a great achievement considering this was one of his first ever tournaments. In addition Harley Franklin came runner up in the girls u12 plate competition, Matthew Bennion winner boys u14 plate and Declan Fardon winner boys u16s plate event. I look forward in seeing more county champions coming through from our program. NEW RATINGS! The latest ratings run has just been completed visit: -YOUR RATING to find out your latest rating and ranking. A list of rated players is also available in the competitions section of this site. A special congratulations goes to 2 of our Tennis plus Academy's Elite squad players Matthew Bennion who's rating has improved to 8.2 and Miles Johnson-Manley who has improved to 9.1 both boys who are ranked inside the top 4 for their age in Gloucester have now been asked to represent Gloucestershire at a county level a fantastic achievement well done. In addition our other Elite squad player Ben Griffiths has improved his rating to 8.1 making him the joint highest rated player at the club alongside George Tilford. Furthermore Dominic Mcdonaugh has also improved his rating to a 8.2 its great to see that we now have 4 players with 8.2 ratings or higher at the club. Hopefully after the next ratings run more players will join this Elite group.In addition to these boys we also had George Evans and Darius Platt-Vowles moving up to ratings of 9.1, well done to you all!
All players from our mini tennis courses upwards should have a rating this is required when playing competitions/tournaments if you do not have a rating please contact me or go online and join "British Tennis" free of charge when you place "Gloucester LTC" as your affiliated club. YOUNG ACES/ ACES D’BLES/MINI RED 09
Ace American Doubles 09
Please note that new membership forms are now available these will run until March 31st 2010. Tennis Plus members receive discounts on all courses squads,holiday camps,shop.private lessons etc.See membership section for full details.Unfortunatelly course/squad fees will rise slightly from the end of October however I would like to think that we still offer better value for money and quality of coaching compered to other nearby tennis clubs and centres within the county.
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