Dear all,
A Merry Christmas and Happy new Year from all at Weoley Hill Tennis Club.
Weather permitting there is a social tennis session on New Years Day morning from 10am onwards.
Many thanks for your support of the club in 2018 and we look forward to another good year ahead.
Regards
Adrian
Monthly Walk
There has been a suggestion to ask members if anyone would be interested in participating in a monthly walk on either a Monday or Friday. If you could contact Lesley if this might be of interest, we could see if this could be an idea to move forward.
Lesley Fuller – les.pete@blueyonder.co.uk
Other local events
Friday 30th November – Weoley Hill Cricket Club
A local street association is hosting a quiz at Weoley Hill Cricket Club and they would like to get as many teams as possible to join. If you would like to bring a team or come along and join up with other people on the night , just let Anthea Know (Gerry her husband is the quiz master for the night).
Please contact Anthea Owen- antheaowen47@gmail.com
Friday 14th December- 8pm- Five Ways Old Edwardians Rugby Club Hopwood
Christmas Party
There is live music, food, a raffle – all for just £10. It is always a good lively night to get you in the mood for Xmas!! Proceeds divided between Macmillan Cancer Support and a Memorial bench for members of the training who have died.
les.pete@blueyonder.co.uk
Held on a sunny afternoon on the 2nd of September, the new mens singles final format was played out over a series of rounds. The eventual finalists were Kenny and Cesar, with Kenny taking the title with a hard fought 6-4 6-4 win. Thanks to everyone who played and enjoyed the event and top stamina marks to Kenny and Cesar who deserved to have a long lie down after such a competitive series of games.
In the runners up competition Mehmet won through and 
it was great to see new faces playing and enjoying competing.
As with the ladies competition we will review the format for next year and hopefully continue to grow the numbers involved.
The ladies doubles competition was held on Sunday 2nd of September. In response to our membership survey, we were trying a new format this year and it was nice to attract a larger entry than last. So on a warm, but not to sunny, Sunday morning the American style competition was run.
There was some great tennis and a very close finish – so close in fact, that 5 ladies were sharing the lead in the second tier group, so it was decided to go with a simpler points total to decide the winners and Linda and Rosie prevailed!
Our thanks to all who took part and to Cliff and Adrian for helping to organise in the morning. We will continue to develop the format based on everyones feedback, but as a first go it was an enjoyable mornings tennis.
A junior tournament event open to all mini red and mini orange players with an LTA rating took place on the morning of 20 May with a good number of entries. Our players did really well and congratulations a Weoley Hill player winning the mini red event. In the afternoon we held a mini-green Team Challenge in which twelve players participated. Congratulations to the aptly named Aces team of Weoley Hill who were the winners.
Congratulations to the players of the 2018 Spring League Competition which has now ended. We have finished third in Division 2, which is a great credit to the players since its a very competitive division.
We have set up a group email list so that we can contact all club members by email. The emails come from the club’s email address – Weoleytennis@hotmail.com
If you have not been getting these messages do try checking your spam or junk folder, as your email software may have identified this as spam. You’ll need to mark it as not spam and move the messages to your inbox. Do contact me on this email address if you have any problems.
Kiran Kaure
Membership Secretary
Hi folks
I have ideas of my own for events but would welcome your thoughts as to what you would like – be it adult, children or family events.
I also intend posting details of events going on in the community which may be of interest – a Weoley Hill ‘What’s on!’ If you have any that you think might be interesting?
Easiest way to contact me direct is :
Mobile: 07846013361
Email: les.pete@blueyonder.co.uk
Look forward to your suggestions and events!
Regards
Lesley