News
2010 Summer Junior Camps
(Posted: 23rd Jun 10)
Weekly Tennis Coaching Schedule
(Posted: 18th Feb 10)
A full programme of coaching sessions are held throughout the week, from Tuesday to Saturday for both Juniors and Seniors. These sessions are open to Club Members and non-Members although there are restrictions on the number of times that the latter may attend. For details click here.
DORKING JUNIORS EXCEL IN 2009 DORKING AND LEATHERHEAD JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE
(Posted: 14th Dec 09)
Congratulations to our Junior Tennis teams for their excellent performances in the Dorking and Letaherhead league during 2009.
For details and the full results click
here.
2009 Tennis and Squash Tournament Results
(Posted: 25th Jun 09)
Congratulations to all our winners and commiserations to the losers in this year's tennis and squash tournaments.
The tournament results and press releases of all club junior and senior competition activity can be found here.
(Posted: 22nd Jun 09)
Tennis Weekend in France
(Posted: 22nd Jun 09)
40 tennis players from Germany, France and the UK took part in a fun mixed doubles tennis tournament near Paris on the weekend of 12th to 14th June 2009. The event was hosted by the twinning committee of a group of small towns and villages in the Beauce region, which is 50 miles south west of Paris. There were six competitors from Dorking, 11 from Germany and 23 from the host clubs. The matches were played at three tennis clubs, Aunay sous Auneau, Denonville and Beville, each of which had just two tennis courts and some matches were also played in the grounds of a beautiful chateau.
The competition started with a round robin at each venue and the intention was that each man would play a 20 minute match with each lady player and the man and woman with the most wins from each venue would then compete in the semi finals. Unfortunately for Dorking’s best players, Tom Lester and Robert Lightwood, the results from their venues were a bit of a lottery and the three Dorking players who reached the semi finals were Harriet and Bob Gray and Scott Sullivan. The semi finals were very close, with the Grays losing 21-19, whilst Scott and his French lady partner with a powerful forehand, squeezed into the final, which they then won in dramatic fashion by 17-16, having trailed 13-16.
The hospitality from the French was outstanding for the whole weekend, which started on the Friday afternoon with a boat trip along the river Seine in Paris accompanied by the Germans. There were 50 to 60 people at the multicultural dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings, where everything was provided by the French hosts. Although many of the French and Germans spoke either very little or no English, the Dorking team, inspired by the star of the weekend, Mr Happy (Kiwi!), had two great evenings, culminating in an interesting rendition of Waltzing Matilda from Dorking’s Australian tournament winner!
Results and Press Releases added to this site
(Posted: 22nd Apr 09)
Club tournament and match results and any related press releases can now be viewed by going to the
Results and Press Releases
tab at the left of any page and then clicking on the headline. Match captains and secretaries should forward any brief copy, together with digital photos to info@dltsclub.org.uk. Please note that permission must be sought from anyone appearing in a photograph. This applies particularly in relation to children who's parents must give their express permission.
Home Tennis Match and Tournament Calendar
(Posted: 5th Feb 09)
You can view and download/save the Tennis Home Match and Tournament Calendar by clicking here (xls, 370k).
If you don't have MS Excel loaded on your computer, or have other problems with the calendar, please contact the Club Administrator.
BRITISH TENNIS
(Posted: 7th Dec 08)
Tennis playing members of all ages are encouraged to join British Tennis. Membership brings a number of benefits, both to the club and its members, particularly by ensuring that we obtain the greatest possible allocation of Wimbledon tickets each year.
Details of what's on offer and how to join can be found on their website http://www.lta.org.uk/BritishTennisMembership.
Membership is free, at least until 2012, and you can download the application form from this site by clicking on Applications and Downloads to the left of this page.
Updated Instructions for the new booking system are available to download on-line
(Posted: 10th Sep 08)
All members receive details of the new on-line court booking system in the post. However the user guides for both on-line access and the touch screen terminal in the clubhouse have been updated to cover floodlit tennis court bookings as well as squash. They can be found under Applications and Downloads on this site for download as pdf files.