Last Saturday Thongsbridge Tennis Club was full to the rafters for the annual Junior Awards Night celebrating the achievements of its junior players. The club has a fantastic team of coaches who coach nearly 400 junior players in all age groups every week. Children start as young as 3 years old playing mini red tennis, progressing through the orange, green …
Holly improves her world junior ranking
The Thongsbridge Tennis Club youngster played in two tournaments in the capital city Colombo – reaching the last eight in each event. The quarter-finals are the furthest Holly has progressed in any International Tennis Federation event and, as a result, she has risen 554 places up the world junior rankings to 885. Holly’s hard work and training over the last …
Huddersfield League Dinner Night
Once again success was brought to Thongsbridge Tennis Club in the Huddersfield District league this season with numerous teams winning their respective leagues and gaining promotion. On Friday 27th September, members attended the HDTL (Huddersfield District Tennis League) dinner at Briar Court to represent the club and celebrate yet another successful and triumphant year. For the first time in years, …
Aegon National Ladies Final Bournemouth
We arrived in Bournemouth to sunny skies and after a practice at the club on the Thursday late afternoon, we attended the draw and prize giving at the hotel. Here we received our trophy for winning the northern league, and then we were drawn out of the hat to face the top seeds Cumberland LTC in the quarter finals the …
Holly has VIP day at Wimbledon
On Saturday 29th June, Holly Horsfall travelled to Wimbledon for a VIP day, awarded for winning the doubles and runner-up in the singles in the Road to Wimbledon challenge 2012. Holly started the day being met by Dan Bloxham, Headcoach of the All England tennis club, and given a tour of the whole facility. This included the ladies changing rooms …
Thongsbridge Ladies make National finals
After being promoted last year to the National Open Division, this season our young ladies have taken the other teams by storm. Led by team captain Georgina, the ladies who have only lost 4 rubbers in the whole of the tournament, managed to knock out the favourites Holcombe Brook 1. This has put the team at the top of the …
Clinton wins membership raffle
The club recently had a promotion inviting members to introduce new members to the club or studio classes. These members were then entered into a raffle to win a membership for themselves. The lucky winner was one of our regular tennis members Clinton Burhouse. Congratulations Clinton.
Thongsbridge Tennis Club star Holly Horsfall gets junior world ranking
THONGSBRIDGE tennis star Holly Horsfall has broken through to earn a junior world ranking. It’s an impressive step for the 15-year-old from Hepworth and follows a series of strong performances in International Tennis Federation events this year. Now, the Holmfirth High student has seven more ITF events on her calendar, two in Montenegro this month, two in the Republic of …
Wimbledon Champion visits Thongsbridge
On Saturday, we were honoured to host Jonny Marray at the Club as he delivered several master classes for the members and took part in an exhibition match. He was joined by Danny Sapsford, ex-British Davis Cup player, as the two gave some fantastic pearls of wisdom to our junior and senior members. The day started with two adult masterclasses, …
Importance of Competition
There are many children that participate in tennis lessons/activities but are not really ‘tennis players’!!! Competition is a crucial part of a child’s weekly tennis programme. IT IS NOT JUST SOMETHING GOOD PLAYERS DO! It’s hopefully exciting and enjoyable. It is one of the most effective ways for a player to improve. Competition allows a player a get an accurate …