Dear Members,

This newsletter is a gentle reminder to any who have entered the club tournament, as well as a note about doing our prize-giving slightly differently this year.

Tournament progress

For those still in the tournament, please do try to arrange your matches as soon as you can. We realise it’s difficult, and many of you are away on holiday, but if you’re able to get your matches played by the deadline, or not long afterwards, then the tournaments should stay on track. Thank you!

Finals Day

All the different competitions will wrap up on Finals Day, this year being held on Sunday September 28. Please do keep it free in your diary (and come along, of course).

Serve and Folly

This year the prize-giving for the tournaments will be held the following week, on Saturday 4 October. It’s going to be a really special evening, not just crowning the tennis champions of 2025, but also showcasing some of the off-the-court talent at the club. Brondesbury’ s Got Even More Talent, if you like.

More updates to follow, but for now good luck in your matches, and spread the word about our awards night – it will be fun for all ages, we promise!

The Tennis Committee

Dear members,

Did you know that now is the time to start planning for your visit to Wimbledon 2026? It might seem a bit early, but the LTA Public Ballot for next year is now open.

Some of you may have read the email from the LTA last week, and already have put your names into the hat.

For those who haven’t, or didn’t get the email, the process is as follows:

1. Log into your LTA Advantage Home account. (If you’re not signed up to Advantage yet, it’s easy and free. Visit this page to start with https://www.lta.org.uk/advantage/ and select Advantage Play.) 

2. Click on MyBenefits on the left hand side, and choose the Wimbledon benefit.

3. Once there, click the Opt In button

The deadline to Opt in is Saturday 31 August, and the balloting process starts in November. 

It’s also worth noting that the ballot is open to juniors over 13 years old who have a Junior Advantage Play+ account.

Good luck in the meantime!

The Tennis Committee.

A big thank you (and congratulations – more later) to all who came to the club’s Summer Event on Saturday, with over 80 players of all ages taking part. 

Members enjoyed a great day of fun tennis, as well as a BYO picnic and some fabulous weather.

The day started with the Parent & Child competition. Over 60 players participated, with children ranging from 6 to 14 years old. It was great to see so many families on court and having fun playing together.

Winners:

Red ball: Pars and Esat

Green ball: Alexander and Laurence 

Yellow ball: Hussain and Muzar

Runners Up:

Red ball: Santi and Bernhard

Green ball: Sammy and Shahar

Yellow ball: Harry and Chi

After lunch there was plenty of quality tennis to be seen on courts 1-5 in the Adult Competition.

22 players played several rounds of competitive but fun doubles, with one partnership emerging victorious from their respective groups.

Winners:

Group 1: Nicola Hands and Stuart Borrie.

Group 2: Tiago Palas and Richard Abramson.

Runners Up:

Group 1: Madeleine Scanlan and Edward Ben-Nathan

Group2: Mike Poulard and Michael Sheehan

Well done to the winners and all those who took part, and we hope to organise this event again in the future.

Don’t forget that this Saturday 12th July is our Summer Competition and Picnic. The weather is set to be great, and there is competitive (and friendly) tennis available for all ages and standards. 

Parent and child event is from 11am to 1pm.

Adult competition is from 2pm to 4pm.

So please do come along. If you’d like to enter the adult competition, please email [email protected]. For parent and child please email [email protected].

Deadline to enter for both is end of Tuesday 8th.

Please note there will be no courts for general play between 11am-4.30pm.