Category: Tennis

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Summer Holiday Tennis Camps 2015

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We are pleased to confirm that we will be running 4 weeks of tennis camps during the Summer Holidays. Our tennis camps have become extremely popular over the last few years and are an excellent way for the children to spend time during their school holidays keeping fit, making new friends and improving their tennis. With the demand usually very high and limited places available it is advised to book your child’s place as early as possible to avoid any disappointment.

The tennis camps will run on the following dates:

Week 1 – Monday 20th – Friday 24th July

Week 2 – Monday 27th – Friday 31st July

Week 3 – Monday 3rd – Friday 7th August

Week 4 – Monday 10th – Friday 14th August

The tennis camps are divided into two different sessions:

10-11am Mini Red (4-8 years)

11am-4pm All Day (8 years +)

All players will be grouped with players of a similar age and standard.

Please print off and fill out one of the attached application forms and hand along with payment to to Rhys Morgan at Mackintosh LTC.

Mackintosh LTC – Summer Holiday Tennis Camps 2015 – Mini Red (4-8 years)

Mackintosh LTC – Summer Holiday Tennis Camps 2015 – All day (8 years +)

Wrap around care is also available for children attending the All Day camp from 8am until 6pm for parents with work commitments. Please see the form below for further details

Mackintosh LTC – Summer Holiday Tennis Camps 2015 – Wrap Around Care

 

Please contact Rhys Morgan (Head Coach) for more information.

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Successful Winter Season for Mackintosh Tennis Teams

It has been an outstanding Winter season for the Mackintosh tennis teams. All four teams playing in the Cymru Kitchens South Wales Doubles Winter Leagues won their respective divisions gaining promotion for the next Winter season. 

Some of the highlights of the Winter season include:

  • Men’s 1st team captain Neil Edwards turning up against former club Bridgend still feeling the effects of the previous night
  • Welsh international player Emily Watson turning up to play a Mixed doubles match against Rhondda and having to brush ice off the court to play
  • Mixed team captain Emma McClory getting distracted by chickens escaping from their pen during an important Mixed doubles match away to Cwmbran
  • Tom Griffiths’ awkward conversation with Cwmbran players about teams/players we don’t like playing against
  • The return of Mackintosh legend and Welsh Ladies Veteran player Kath Mutter in a vital fixture for the ladies team to help clinch the league title

The table below shows the finishing positions in the leagues.

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All players are now excited for the start of the Summer season with 3 Men’s teams and 1 Ladies team playing in the Courtstall South Wales Summer Doubles League. The Summer season starts in May, with players keen to follow on from the success of the Winter league campaigns. Team players have been busy practicing ahead of the Summer season with Men’s team practice taking place on Thursday at 6:30pm and Ladies team practice taking place at 6pm on Wednesdays – new players are always welcome to come along and join our teams. 

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Eggscellent Easter Tennis Camps 2015

Our Easter Tennis Camps once again proved to be a huge success this year. A total of 71 different children had a great time improving their tennis during the course of the 2 weeks. We were once again extremely lucky to have dry weather for 2 weeks, despite the strong winds and threats of rain in the first week, the second week made up for it as the children enjoyed playing tennis in glorious sunshine throughout the week. 

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There will be more tennis camps taking place during May half term and Summer Holidays – bookings are now being taken for both. Please contact Head Coach Rhys Morgan to book your place. 

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Fun filled week of half term tennis

There was a busy schedule of half term tennis activities with coaches Rhys, Emma and Billy running tennis camps for 53 different children of all ages and abilities. The children enjoyed taking part in a range of fun games and activities whilst learning and improving their tennis.

There will be 2 weeks of tennis camps running over the Easter holidays
Week 1 – Monday 30th March – Thursday 2nd April
Week 2 – Tuesday 7th April – Friday 10th April

Mini Red (4-8 years) – 10-11am
All Day (8 years +) – 11am-4pm

Please contact Rhys Morgan if you would like further information or to book a place

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Frying Pan Mini Tennis Competition Results

Our Shrove Tuesday frying pan tennis competition turned out to be a big success with 12 players taking part.

All players had loads of fun, and there were some unbelievable points played considering players were using frying pans.

The final was contested by Alex and Tom with both players proving they were worthy finalists with an amazing display of powerful baseline rallies and net play skills. In a close match Alex eventually came out on top winning 10-8 to become the 2015 Mackintosh Frying Pan Tennis champion.

Following the tennis all players enjoyed some delicious pancakes in the clubhouse to round off a great evening.

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Frying Pan Mini Tennis Competition

With this Tuesday 17th February falling on Shrove Tuesday, we have decided to run Social Tennis with a difference for this week.

Commencing at 7pm we will be running a Frying Pan Mini Tennis competition. Normal tennis rules will apply, however entrants will be required to play with a frying pan instead of a racket. Members are encouraged to bring along their own frying pans to play with. The event is open to all adults and stronger juniors. Entries will cost £2 per person and will include a pancake in the clubhouse after the competition finishes.

There will also be an opportunity to play usual Social Tennis for those players knocked out of the competition and after the competition ends.

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Christmas Party

Our Christmas Party took place on Saturday 20th December with lots of families coming along to support the event.

The children enjoyed lots of different party games and were lucky enough to receive a present from a special visitor

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Halloween Party

A big thanks to everyone who came along to our Halloween Party on Saturday 1st November. Everyone looked fantastic in their scary costumes.

It looked like all of the children had lots of fun taking part in the party games.

A big thanks to Emma for organising the party.

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Tennis Club Presentation Evening 2014

Our annual tennis club presentation evening took place on Saturday 11th October.

There was a superb turnout for the presentation with the clubhouse full of club members, families and friends.

The presentation saw all of the winners and runners-up from the 2014 club championships awarded with their trophies. Additionally, Head Coach Rhys Morgan awarded a ‘Coaches’ Player of the Year’ for each age group. Following a discussion with the other coaches at the club, the player of the year was awarded to players who had shown excellent attendance, desire to improve and effort and attitude in sessions during 2014. The winners of the ‘Coaches’ Player of the Year’ were as follows:
Mini Red – Zoe Pitman
Mini Orange – Eve Wynne-Owen
Mini Green – Lewis White
Junior – Ben Voss

Following the presentation there was a buffet and a disco with karaoke provided by Donna Balzan.

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Tennis Club Championships 2014 Results

A huge well done to everyone who took part in both the Adult and Junior Club Championships this Summer.

The winners and runners-up of the events are as follows:

Junior Club Championships

8&U Singles: Winner – Sean Ge, Runner-up – Rocco Lenney

9&U Singles: Winner – Josh Prince, Runner-up – Dylan Chapman

12&U Singles: Winner – Ben Voss, Runner-up – Flossie Loosemore

16&U Singles: Winner – Shalome Kurian, Runner-up – Ben Voss

16&U Doubles: Winners – Ali Alkamil and Ieuan Burridge-Bryant, Runners-up – Shalome Kurian and Ben Voss

Adults Club Championships

Men’s Singles: Winner – Mike Castle, Runner-up – Jonnie Bradbury

Ladies Singles: Winner – Pip O’Sullivan, Runner-up – Emma McClory

Men’s Doubles: Winners – Jonnie Bradbury and Tom Griffiths, Runners-up – John Balzan and Neil Edwards

Ladies Doubles: Winners – Emma McClory and Pip O’Sullivan, Runners-up: Clare Dwight and Karen Friend

Mixed Doubles: Winners – Jonnie Bradbury and Pip O’Sullivan, Runners-up: Neil Edwards and Emma McClory

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