Welcome to the Hayes (Kent) Lawn Tennis Club website.
AFFILIATED TO THE KENT COUNTY LTA
Home Ground: Barnet Wood Road, Hayes, Bromley, Kent BR2 7AA
Tel: 020 8462 3430
Website : www.hayeskenttennis.org.uk
Email: enquiries@hayeskenttennis.org.uk
Chairman and Membership Secretary Felicity Crowther
On behalf of your Committee, I would like to welcome all current and new members to the New Tennis Year which starts on April 1st 2012.
Despite the recent cold spell, members have continued to enjoy the club’s tennis and social facilities throughout the winter but I’m sure we are all looking forward to warmer weather during the spring and summer.
We will be attending to floodlight repairs in the near future to make the tennis experience as enjoyable as possible.
In particular this year the Committee will focus on increasing membership levels in all categories; current members can really help in this by supporting the initiatives and incentives planned and encouraging friends and neighbours to come and join in.
Thank you to all members who attended the recent AGM and enjoyed the Cheese and Wine organised by Bill and Dennis and provided ideas on the above, all of which are being considered by the Committee.
We will continue to offer a full programme of sporting and social events as listed below, and invite you to participate as much as possible and enjoy the club and all its facilities to the full.
· Six all weather courts, (three with floodlights) all with the same type of Astroturf carpet which provide a comfortable and consistent playing surface.
- 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 our very popular Spring and Autumn American tournaments (finished off with a well deserved barbecue and drinks) and the annual club tournament which takes place in June/July.
- Club representative matches in the Kent and North Kent leagues. As always we have entered a variety of teams to enable players to enjoy matches against other clubs.
- Coaching sessions, our qualified club coaches will continue to offer individual and group sessions; we are pleased to be able to continue with our Wednesday novice club evenings, the first six of which (from 16th May to 20th June) will be attended by a club coach with group coaching at no charge. These sessions have proved very popular and, after the free coaching sessions, have been continued during the summer and winter with the coaches being paid for their services by the members attending.
- Social Events which enable club members and friends to get together off the courts and participate in enjoyable evenings such as a quiz, variety or curry nights.
- 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.
This year our Wimbledon Ticket Ballot will take place on Sunday 22nd April and conform to the rules drawn up by the LTA 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, regardless of playing standard, so please encourage your friends and colleagues to join us. Please ask them to give me call on 01689-856460 or use the email address above.
With best wishes
Felicity Crowther
