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We have ClubMark!!!
The Club Committee are delighted to announce that the LTA have awarded Stony Stratford Tennis Club with the coverted ClubMark status on Wednesday 24th September. This is a great recognition by the LTA of SSLTC’s success as a club. Congratulations and thanks especially to Sharon Marchant, our club secretary who has project managed the effort, and coordinated the input of members of the committee. Sharon met with the LTA's assesor, Abbie Lench, this morning and we obviously passed with flying colours. Thank you also to Abbie for her preliminar assessment last month to ensure we were on track, and to John Skinner, Brian Berrill, John Taylor and Simon Burn for all their work compiling the reports.

The LTA have developed Tennis Clubmark to recognise and reward clubs for the important contribution they make in developing tennis players and to British tennis in general. Other sports have similar programmes for their clubs, for example ClubFirst in the Hockey world. Tennis Clubmark is the LTA’s club accreditation programme. Achieving Tennis Clubmark means the LTA endorses and supports the tennis programmes SSLTC delivers on court, and the policies and procedures we have in place off court. These are crucial to ensuring that SSLTC is managed effectively and that we provide a safe environment for junior members to enjoy and play tennis.

Tennis Clubmark provides a framework to help clubs such as ours improve ourselves, and to ensure that their programmes, policies and procedures are all in line with best practice. In achieving Tennis Clubmark we are demonstrating our contribution to the delivery of the Blueprint, by improving the quality of our club, our coaches that work within SSLTC and the competition that SSLTC delivers.

Clubmark
Club Championships 2008 Results

Both the Junior and Senior Club Championship finals took place on Sunday 7th September. After the initial dampish start, the sun even came out for brief periods allowing a small crowd to assemble, some without raincoats!

Congratulations to all the competitors this year. Some draws continue to attract a huge entry which is fantastic. In particular the Men's singles is always fiercely competitive with 32 entrants again this year. Both the earlier rounds and finals day saw their fair share of matches going to the final set or match tie break.

Full Junior results will be posted to this article just as soon as I have the results and scores. In the meantime here are the Senior results. You will also find some pctures from the day on the Photo Gallery

Ladies Singles: 2008 Champion: Sam Knaves Runner-up: Rachel Palmer Third Place: Ann Lambley
Ladies Doubles: Champions: Rachel Palmer/Sam Knaves beat Alison Locke/Jenni Gatley 6-2 7-5

Mens' Singles: 2008 Champion: David Marchant beat Richard Finch 7/6 5/7 6/4
Men's Doubles: Champions: Ian Spanswick/Seb Calcut beat Simon Burn/David Marchant 6-2 5-7 6-3

Mixed Doubles: Champions: Jenni Gatley/David Marchant bear Rachel Palmer/Chris Cooke 6-2 7-5

Busy days for both Rachel and David.

Club Finals 2008
Club Finals - Sunday 7th September from 10am

Finals have come round again and we have some exciting matches to look forward to in both the Juniors and the Adult tournaments. The Junior programme will start at 10am and the Adult Singles from 11am. Please come down to the club and support. We are guaranteed both a previously uncrowned Ladies' and Men's Singles champions. There will be tea and cakes to help get you through the afternoon. Not all semi finals are complete yet, but the line ups so far are:

Ladies Singles: Round robin of the surviving competitors
Ladies Doubles: Rachel Palmer/Sam Knaves vs Alison Locke/Jenni Gatley

Mens' Singles: David Marchant vs Richard Finch or Harry Kellner
Men's Doubles: Ian Spanswick/Seb Calcut vs Simon Burn/David Marchant or Jez Tibbetts/Andrew Lawson

Mixed Doubles: Rachel Palmer/Chris Cooke vs Jenni Gatley/David Marchant

Busy days for Rachel and David. See you on Sunday

 Club Finals
Men's A are MK League Champions (Issued 15/7/08)
Congratulations to the Men's 1st team that completed their summer's matches on the 15th July coming top of Division One, overturning a run of Gilpin victories. On Monday 14th, led by captain David Marchant, the team of Seb Prioul, Seb Callcut and Ian Spanswick, beat Gilpin 5-3 at Emberton. David and Seb P picked up all four points with the winning set being converted by Seb C and Ian.

The title landed in Stony's lap when Newport Pagnell conceded their match on Tuesday 15th. Stony finish above Milton Keynes in second place and Gilpin slip to 3rd.

Congratulations to the whole squad of David Marchant (captain), Simon Burn, Seb Callcut, Seb Prioul, Ian Spanswick, Brian Hayward, Jez Tibbetts and Andrew Lawson. ...and a small thanks to the 2nd team who might have helped by beating MK A

 MK Champions
New SSLTC Website launched (Issued 9/7/08)
If you reading this you are obviously aware that the SSLTC website is back! The Totaltennis network died a death in March. Since then we have had a holding site with just a couple of pages out under our web address so we were at least contactable. Our new website finally went live in mid July. Over the next few months you will see more articles added so that it becomes more and more useful to our club members with time.

Notable improvements are a new calendar. We will endeavour to keep this up to date including the number of courts booked out for each event. In time we will be able to have downloads and external links. In the more distant future there will be a secure membership area with contact details, ability to renew membership online, purchase from John's tennis equipment shop, an enhanced calendar and loads more.

The committee would like thank:

  1. Janice Roach and Roger Draper for helping us retrieve our data from the old totaltennis site,
  2. to Anne Irwin for her advice on all those trial sites we looked at,
  3. to Stuart Freestone of Freestone Creative for his help with the Home Page banner image and
  4. of course Gwyneth and Martin Smith from Absolute Micro Communications in Walnut Tree that are providing the web application and hosting services.
 Website
Social Mixed Sunday nights (Issued 9/7/08)
There have been a number of suggestions and comments on the fact, with all the other opportunities for peer group tennis, club nights have suffered. Club nights remain very important to us, as a family and mixed club, as it is one of the key opportunities for mixed tennis helping to prevent the men’s and ladies becoming separate sections within a club. To this end Sunday evening club nights were designated Mixed Sunday evenings with the emphasis on Mixed Doubles. To help get things moving all those attending are encouraged to bring a bottle to put the social back into our Mixed tennis. Attendance has improved and there has been some very competitive tennis (particularly when he sun has shone). Make sure you come down and join us and bring a bottle (just in case we forget ours!)

Once a month we get the new BBQ out too. The future dates for the BBQ are July 20th, August 17th and September 21st. (so you have advance warning as Budgens I think closes at 4pm). Wednesday club nights remain unchanged. Make sure you remember to put a bottle in your racket bag for the 20th and we look forward to seeing you then.

Mixed Sundays
Vicarage Rd,
Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, MK11 1AR
Tel: +44 01908 262397
Email: info@ssltc.co.uk
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