PLTC prides itself on providing tennis for everyone. Our social tennis sessions are the heart of the club, allowing all to play with those who we'd not normally play in a friendly and supportive environment.
Days and times
What to expect
We encourage all members that feel comfortable playing at the standard played at our social sessions to take part, enjoy themselves and meet new friends. We've put together some guidance and the process that is used to ensure social sessions are managed fairly. Overall a great opportunity to improve your gameplay.
To ensure everyone enjoys and gets the most out of Social Tennis, we encourage players to follow a set of guidelines:
Making yourself available for selection
Selection of fours
Players returning from a finished set
Attend a social session as a spectator initially to see the standard and decide whether you feel that you would like to attend as a player. We also encourage you to speak to a member of the coaching staff who can guide you on the appropriate level for play at social sessions or can offer you lessons if you feel that you would like to improve before attending.
You can also speak to a member of the Committee who could put you in touch with other members to setup fixed 2’s and 4’s with others of a similar standard, to help build your confidence and game so that you feel comfortable playing at social sessions.
In order to ensure you get to play varied tennis with as many different people as possible, we would like you to mix up your sets as much as possible, so perhaps consider the following:
Absolutely. The social tennis sessions are as much about socialising with other members as they are about playing tennis and this is an important part of being a member of the club.
Please do come down, join in and above all else, have fun!
We’d rather avoid this but suspect this may happen on the rare occasions when attendance at social is low. If that is the case, and you feel you would like to offer this to the other players, then discuss this with them and agree for them to go before you.
We would expect members to be sensible, courteous and work together to find a solution to any disputes, however each session will have a nominated person (social tennis organiser) who will seek to ensure the ethos and guidance are maintained and will deal with any issues that arise.
Members will be notified of who the social tennis organiser will be for each session via the WhatsApp group ahead of the session.
No. You are responsible for retrieving your tag and putting it onto the available players ledge when you leave the court, and ensuring you are available for selection. If you want to play, your tag should always be put at the back of the queue.
Once you have your tag, you will be responsible for keeping it safe and for making sure you bring it to social sessions when you attend.
Anyone forgetting their tag will still be able to play but will have to use a generic tag and therefore may miss out on games as they will not be easily identifiable to other players.
Any tags left at the end of social will be collected and placed in a box inside the clubhouse. You can collect your tag at any point from the box.
All social sessions will be played with new balls (or balls only previously used for team matches) which will be provided by the social tennis organiser for that session.
These will be provided in a basket for the session and all balls should be returned to the basket at the end of your session, not onto the drying rack inside the club. Balls should never be left on court.
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