Back to Mix-In Play Planned
Brondesbury has never previously enabled court booking and, as a result, it has enabled a culture of inclusion, allowing many members just to turn up and get a game, especially at the weekends. This correspondingly discourages cliques and enables players of different playing levels to get to know each other and assist in members growing their playing skills. We wish to return to this culture as soon as safely possible.
To that end, we are planning for no courts to be booked on Sunday, June 14th. People who wish to play can just turn up and follow all the old rules. This means that if people are waiting for a court, play must cease at the end of a set and the court vacated to allow those waiting to play. If people are playing singles while others are waiting for a court they should invite two people waiting to join them.
Social distancing should be maintained by those waiting for a court. Given the extensive area between the two blocks of courts, this should not prove difficult.
If this test 'return to normal' works we will plan for all subsequent weekends to follow this pattern. However, should too many people cause a large crowd to form, we will have to reconsider. However, from past experience of sunny weekends in prior years, we are not expecting this.