November 2011

University of Warwick Tennis

Centre Newsletter Special

Interest:

• Save the

Children Fund

Finals at

Roehampton

• Christmas Party

Time

Individual Highlights:

New Drills Session

New Doubles Club

Adult Matchplay

Wheelchair Tennis

Success

Welcome to the

second newsletter of the academic

year. Congratulations to Dani Caverzaschi who recently reached the final of the Valencia ATP Wheelchair Tennis Spanish Masters. Dani is a 1st Year student at the University of Warwick studying Economics and he trains at the Tennis Centre under the guidance of Matt Thomas

Caverzaschi reaches final of Valencia ATP 500 Series Event

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Junior Christmas Party

Adult Christmas Team Slam

Adult Matchplay Ladder

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Coaching Team

Jason has settled into his new role at the Tennis Centre and we now have our

full team fit and active. Thank you to everyone who turned out recently for a

farewell meal for John at Ask in Leamington.

Adult and Junior Coaching Programmes

Booking for the next Course of Adult and Junior sessions opens on

December 5th. Call Reception on 02476 150690 to book your places.

Thursday Morning Doubles Club

This is a new addition to the Adult programme and includes doubles coaching

and doubles matchplay. It is a Pay & Play session so anyone is welcome to join

in on a drop in basis. Please contact Jason Jokhoo on J.Jokhoo@warwick.ac.uk

for further details.

Drills Session

Following on the resounding success of the Drills Session on a Wednesday

evening, Jason is now doing an additional session on a Tuesday evening from

7.30 – 8.30pm. There are still some spaces available so call Reception soon to

book your place.

Christmas is coming!!

ADULT CHRISTMAS TEAM SLAM December 9th 7.30pm to 8.30pm followed by drinks at the Varsity Pub

Christmassy item of clothing must be worn!

JUNIOR CHRISTMAS PARTY December 19th 10.00am to 1.00pm

See Posters on the Noticeboards

E-mail Penny at Penny.Garbutt@warwick.ac.uk if you are attending

BOOKING FOR NEXT ADULT AND JUNIOR

COURSES OPENS

DECEMBER 5TH

CALL RECEPTION ON

02476 150690 AND BOOK

YOUR PLACE OVER THE

PHONE

CALL PENNY ON 02476 150687

FOR ADVICE ON THE BEST

GROUPS

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Adult Matchplay Ladder

We need more people to make this work!! Jason is running the Ladder in

order to give everyone more opportunities to play competitively and maybe

win a bottle of wine!! Watch the Noticeboard for the new format and the

sign up details.

Save The Children Fund Finals at the National Training Centre in

Roehampton, London

This is an annual national fundraising event in aid of Save the Children Fund

which culminates in a Tennis Festival in London during October.

Inspire2coach organized a Coventry event with the Ladies Doubles being

played at the University of Warwick, the Mens Doubles and the Junior Boys

Doubles being played at Beechwood Tennis Club. The day ended with a

fantastic BBQ at Beechwood Tennis Club with all three finals taking place.

The winners of the Ladies and Mens Doubles were then invited to the Tennis

Festival but the Juniors had to work their way through another event to get

to the Festival as the report below written by the boys describes:

Report from Angus and Finlay Smith: Mum entered us into this tournament as she thought it would be fun for us to play as

brothers. We had fun at Beechwood and we were very surprised to come away with a win. It was good fun playing together. Angus managed to hit the ball off his racquet

frame during a match and it broke in two, so we had to whizz off to get another one before finishing the tournament. The next round was at Bisham Abbey. It was a very smart facility. We played well, although it was a harder round. We had a close

fought final match but secured the win which got us into the final round. We did some fund raising at school and in our village, and managed to donate £120 to

Save the Children. The National Tennis Centre at Roehampton was fantastic. It was am incredible place with state of the art facilities. We stayed overnight, and it was weird to think who else

may have slept in our bed! Our first match was really difficult. We ended up in a tie break, and fought back from 0-

3 to win 12-10. The pressure was really on! The second match was easier, and we won that, but lost the 3rd. We still managed to qualify into the semis. We were very nervous as the LTA provided an umpire, linesmen and ball girls. There were lots of people watching from the balcony. After the coin toss it was announced "Smith and

Smith have chosen to return"which was quite scary. Unfortunately we had a really hard match and lost it, although there were some good rallies. Our opposition went on to win the final so that made us feel better. We were shattered afterwards, but enjoyed

seeing Ade Adepitan demonstrating wheelchair tennis. He was so fast and managed to hit the ball so well.

We had a great time, and it was a really fun tournament to take part in. You should enter it next year!

See the photos over the page

NEWS

The University of Warwick

Tennis Centre

Westwood Campus Kirby Corner Road Coventry CV4 7AL

PHONE:

Bookings - 02476 150690 Enquiries – 02476 150687

E-MAIL: Penny.Garbutt@warwick.ac.uk

WEBSITE:

www.go.warwick.ac.uk/tenniscentre

Jit Jagatia and Tom Barton – Mens Doubles Winners

Rebecca Scanlon and Saykin Su-Cowling – National Ladies Doubles Runners Up

Angus Smith and Finlay Smith – Junior Boys Doubles Semi Finalists

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