{"id":433,"date":"2023-08-01T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:04:55","slug":"why-join","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/join-us\/why-join\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Join?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castleknock Lawn Tennis Club offers a friendly and vibrant environment in which to play tennis both socially and competitively. Tennis is a fun way of keeping fit and active for adults and children of all ages and abilities. Our diverse membership ensures that there will always be a partner to suit your tennis level.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have the choice of playing social tennis you arrange yourself with other members, take part in club social tennis events for a more &#8216;organised&#8217; version of social tennis or take part in competitive tennis. We have something to suit everyone.<\/li>\n<li>If your interest grows and you would like to try competitive tennis, \u00a0you can enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/senior-players\/competitive-tennis\/internal-tournaments\/\">graded internal club competitions<\/a> or you may wish to participate in <a href=\"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/senior-players\/competitive-tennis\/inter-club-leagues\/\">inter-club competitions<\/a>. The club enters teams in\u00a0 Dublin Tennis Leagues so there is the option of participating and competing at all levels.<\/li>\n<li>All new junior members can choose to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/junior-coaching-program\/\">junior coaching programme<\/a>. There is a fee for any coaching in the club.<\/li>\n<li>Tennis is a family friendly sport which gives parents and their children a great opportunity to play together. Our club encourages this by offering <a href=\"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Family-Membership-Form-2025.docx\">family memberships.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Club organised events, competitions, league tennis and coaching is all available and at an additional cost to your membership fee. It is member&#8217;s choice whether or not to take part.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any queries or would like to look around the club before you join please contact the office on <a href=\"mailto:office@cltc.ie\">office@cltc.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/join-us\/become-a-member\/\">Click here for details of how to become a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castleknock Lawn Tennis Club offers a friendly and vibrant environment in which to play tennis both socially and competitively. Tennis is a fun way of keeping fit and active for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":442,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20868,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions\/20868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}