Aldgate Sports & Recreation Club

Greetings…

Can you believe that it is the 16^th of December today already!!!

Just a quick reminder, tomorrow night is our last Tuesday Night Tennis for 2013 and apart from tennis as usual, we will be having our annual Night Tennis Christmas Party drinks and nibbles.

Please simply bring a Christmassy plate of food to share (your choice of savoury or sweet).

The canteen will be open for cold soft drinks, lollies, sweets etc and please also feel free to BYO champas, beer, wine etc and stay on for a chat etc after tennis…

For those who have filled in through out the year or maybe aren’t listed to play tomorrow night, we would love to see you too, so please come down to the Club at any time during the evening.

Night Tennis resumes in the New Year on the 14^th of January. Happy Christmas to all.

** Stop The Press **

In an extraordinary display of breath taking night tennis, Team “Just For The Fun Of It” tonight rolled over the top of an as yet unnamed and much more highly fancied opposition and achieved their maiden Team Victory.

Scorch marks on court one are still visible from where Sean’s Nikes melted onto  the court following his unrelenting display of high speed agility and endurance. Spectators were heard to whisper in admiration at these feats of unexpected athleticism, particularly from a man in his 40s. Andrea, having only taken up tennis for the first time this season was regularly seen flying through the air, particularly at Net, dismissively despatching all balls within reach with such force that several professional restringing companies have already approached the Club, sensing plenty of future business. Graham and Lisa, most often seen chatting inside the Clubrooms, this week did their best work out outside the Clubhouse and put on a fine display of competitive play with minimal sledging of their opponents and without a single code violation. So impressed were they by their own efforts that they asked me to write this article about them and post it on the web site.

So for their outstanding all around contribution tonight, demonstrating fortitude and an exemplary never say die approach as well as participating in an entirely justifiable self congratulatory post match celebration,  this week, TEAM JFTFOI are awarded the prestigious Night Tennis C’Mon Award for services to the cause of night tennis. Whilst most teams have no clue where they are on the ladder and where few players bother to check the team sheet at the end of play to find out if they won or not, JFTFOI has tonight simply cut through and publically celebrated their first Team win… Well done guys!!!

Last games before Christmas are on Saturday 14 December (night tennis Tuesday 17 December)

Saturday matches resume 1 February 2014 (no training Monday 27 January 2014)