Welcome to the Hayes (Kent) Lawn Tennis Club website. 

Although I am writing this in the depths of the worst winter weather for many years, I am looking forward, as I am sure you are, to a well deserved warm summer and another season of enjoyable tennis! The winter weather has not affected our enthusiasm for the sport with  club sessions being well attended and play continuing during rain, wind and snow, and all matches being completed. So many thanks to all club members for their continued commitment and perseverance!

The new season starts on April 1^st 2010 and we have a full programme of tennis and social activities for you to participate in. These consist of:

• Regular ‘turn up and play’ club sessions where the emphasis is on friendly competition, with the added enjoyment of winding down with social drinks in the clubhouse bar.

• Internal club tournaments that enable club members to compete against each other in events such as such as our very popular American tournaments (finished off with a well deserved barbecue and drinks) and the annual club tournaments which take place in June/July.

• Club representative matches in the Kent and North Kent leagues. This enables players to test their skills against players from other clubs and on a variety of different surfaces, leading to an overall high level of skill that improves the overall standard of play within the club.

• Coaching sessions, our qualified club coach will continue to offer individual and group sessions; we are pleased to be able to continue with last year’s successful trial of novice club evenings, the first six of which will be attended by the coach with group coaching at no charge. For all further coaching enquiries and for bookings click here :- K4sacademies

• Social Events which enable club members and friends to get together off the courts and participate in enjoyable evenings such as a quiz, barn dance or curry night...

• The Clubhouse Bar remains central to all sections who share the grounds (rugby, cricket and badminton as well as our own tennis section) and offers Sky Sports available on 4 screens. As good a place as any to watch this year’s Wimbledon and Football World Cup!

The Club has six all weather courts, each with a green artificial grass surface. These are used regularly throughout summer and winter. The top three courts are floodlit. 

This year our Wimbledon Ticket Ballot will take place on 16^th May and conform to the same rules introduced last year whereby our allocation is based on numbers of members who have joined British Tennis, as is individual qualification to enter the ballot.

We always welcome new members, so please encourage your friends and colleagues to join us. Please ask them to give me call on 01689-856460. With best wishes as always for an enjoyable season.  

Felicity Crowther

COMMITTEE MEMBERS and RESPONSIBILITIES 20010/11

PRESIDENT	!an Jackson
VICE PRESIDENT	John Mockford
CHAIRMAN	Felicity Crowther
SECRETARY	Phil Barlow
TREASURER	Alan Lennox
MENS CAPTAIN	Steve Race
LADIES CAPTAIN	Sally Hills
LADIES VICE CAPTAIN	Sandra Carpenter
MENS VETS CAPTAIN	Andrew McIver
MATCH SECRETARY	Peter Gregory
COMMITTEE MEMBER	Bill Eastwood
COMMITTEE MEMBER	Dennis Leek
COMMITTEE MEMBER	John Dear
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY	Felicity Crowther
SELECTION COMMITTEE	Steve Race Andrew McIver Sally Hills
REPRESENTATIVES ON THE WARMAN TRUST	Felicity Crowther Ian Jackson, Alan Lennox
CLUB COACH	Matt Doran *
MIDWEEK LADIES SECTION	Pat Ivey * Margaret Harland *
FLOODLIGHTS CONSULTANT	Reggie Exon *

      * Non committee members

 COACHING/TRAINING: (subject to demand):

Please contact Matt Doran on 07931-247877 ASAP if you or your children are interested in participating in coaching sessions.

 
CLUB PLAY SESSIONS

YEAR ROUND

SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, 1 pm to 5 pm  

SUNDAY MORNINGS, 9.30 am to 1 pm

EVENING SESSIONS

SUMMER

FULL MEMBERS TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS,  7pm to 10.30 pm

(finishing under floodlights); 1^st April to 30^th September

NOVICE MEMBERS: WEDNESDAYS  7 pm to 10.30 pm 12^th May to 24^th September.

WINTER

FULL MEMBERS WITH FLOODLIGHT WEDNESDAYS, 7:30 p:m to 10:30 p:m 1^st October to 25^th March 2011

JUNIOR CLUB, FRIDAY EVENINGS 4.30 p:m to 6.30 p:m supervised by Club Coach from April 30th

DISCOUNTS

Club Members are offered at least 10% discount on sporting goods on presentation of their membership tag at: Jolly Good Sports, Petts Wood.

RACKETS AND RESTRINGS

Brian Jarrett provides a highly professional fast racket restringing service at very reasonable rates; Contact Brian 01689-856037.

CATERING SERVICES

Anita Eastwood provides catering services for the club, and is also available for catering for special occasions; Anita can be contacted on 0208-325-6297