{"id":514,"date":"2017-11-01T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:50:54","slug":"social-tennis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/senior-players\/social-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a jam packed calendar of social tennis through out the year, from one day fun events to organised weekly mix-ups of social tennis with a little added incentive to win! We try to keep all our members happy with the range of tennis on offer. This is on top of all the tennis you will be organising yourself!<\/p>\n<p>The weekly social tennis events are a great way to get to know people and get out on court. New members are always welcome and all standards are catered for. Find your tennis tribe, exchange phone numbers and you&#8217;re in! Book a court for a follow up friendly, this makes it so much easier to keep tennis in your diary.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly social tennis events are generally a new member\u2019s first introduction to tennis in the club. There is a warm welcome for new members and all standards are catered for. It is a great way to meet people to play with at other times. Get to know other members in the bar afterwards, have a coffee\/drink and a chat. You can take part in the whole session or just dip in and out. The advantage of doing the whole session is that you might win a prize! Individual scores are calculated and kept each week so the player with the most points at the end of the session receives a prize!.<\/p>\n<h2>LADIES WEDNESDAY MORNINGS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong>\u00a02 Sessions per year, September to December and mid-January to\u00a0end May. All standards welcome. Play is followed by tea and chat in the bar. Prize giving and lunch at the end of each session.<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong> \u20ac5.00 per week<br \/>\n<strong>Format:<\/strong> Ladies doubles.\u00a0You will play in a group of 4-5 players of same standard.<br \/>\n<strong>Sign-on:\u00a0 <\/strong>From Monday 9am to Tues 4pm. Sign on weekly through your Smart Club account.<br \/>\n<strong>Session time:<\/strong> 10 am, please arrive at 9:45 so play can start on time. Usually ends around midday<br \/>\n<strong>Organisers: <\/strong>Mary Mahon, Keira White, Valerie Galvin.<\/p>\n<h2>MENS WEDNESDAY NIGHTS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Event runs twice a year usually for 10 weeks at a time.<br \/>\n<strong>Duration: <\/strong>Dave Ward Cup (February to May) and Matt Russell Cup (September to December)<br \/>\n<strong>Cost: <\/strong>\u20ac7 per night<br \/>\n<strong>Format:<\/strong> Men\u2019s doubles.\u00a0You play in a group of 4\/5 players of your standard.<br \/>\n<strong>Sign-on:<\/strong>\u00a0Sign on <strong>each week<\/strong> in your Smart Club account. Opens on a Sun at 12pm, closes Tues at 6pm<br \/>\n<strong>Session times:<\/strong> There is 1 session &#8211; 8pm<br \/>\n<strong>Organisers: <\/strong>Peter Furlong, John Kilkenny, Lonan Durand &amp; Tom O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<h2>LADIES THURSDAY NIGHTS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong>\u00a02 Sessions per year, usually from September to early December and mid-February to the early June, with breaks for other club competitions\u00a0where necessary.\u00a0 Tennis followed by social\u00a0chat in the bar and a chance to win a bottle of wine.<br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0approx. 12 Thursdays per session, prizegiving party at the end of each session.<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong> Will be visible in Smart Club in Events (approx \u20ac6)<br \/>\n<strong>Format:\u00a0<\/strong>Ladies doubles. You will play in a group of 4\/5 of your standard. We will make contact with new\u00a0members to find your playing level.\u00a0 Play consists of 8 or 6 games with each person in the group, a total of 24 games. The number of games won each\u00a0night are accumulated over the 12 weeks with the best 6 scores counted.\u00a0Those who have played a minimum of 6 weeks are included in prizegiving.<br \/>\n<strong>Sign-on:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Sign-on sheet in SmartClub opens on Tuesdays at 6:30pm. Closes on Thursdays at 1pm. Sign on through SmartClub -&gt; Events -&gt; Ladies Thursday Social Tennis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cancellations:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Can be made before 1pm on Thursday through SmartClub -&gt; My Events.\u00a0 After 1pm please contact one of the organisers.<br \/>\n<strong>Session time:<\/strong> 7.15pm, please arrive at 7pm so that play can begin on time.<\/p>\n<h2>MENS FRIDAY MORNINGS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Runs all year round.<br \/>\n<strong>Cost: <\/strong>No cost<br \/>\n<strong>Format:<\/strong> Men\u2019s doubles.\u00a0You will play in a group of 4-5 of your standard.<br \/>\n<strong>Sign-on:<\/strong> Smart Club Cloud<br \/>\n<strong>Session times:<\/strong> 10:30 a.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Organisers: <\/strong>Jim Conroy, Adrian Brannigan.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a jam packed calendar of social tennis through out the year, from one day fun events to organised weekly mix-ups of social tennis with a little added incentive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":8,"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-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21615,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/21615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cltc.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}