Mens 1st team Winter league Success

Mens first team have reached the semi finals of class 2 winter league after a nail biting finish to their quarter final.  Elm Park hosted Castleknocks first team last Sunday morning in an evenly matched tie.   Tie went down to a final set tie break in the final tie with John Sheridan & Brendan Barrett winning the tie break in sparkling style.   Elm Park will be hosting the semi final on Sunday 13th March @11am on courts 2-5.   All supporters welcome.

Team Tennis Week 3 update

After some mixed weather and some toss of coins to decide the weather cancelled matches the teams now stand as follows:
Wednesday
Team A : 83
B: 86
C: 112
D: 110
E : 111
F : 99

Thursday
Team G: 102
H: 103
I : 95
J: 69*
K : 74*
L : 62*
M: 103

* These teams have had their week off

Don't forget to put Finals night,16th of March, in your diary.

Yvonne

Mens Winter League 2011 - Team Results

Mens first team got off to a flying start this week with a 3-0 home wins against Sandycove 2nd team.  
Second team also got off to a great start with a 3-0 home win against Navan 1st team last week, followed by a 2-1 away loss against Fitzwilliam 4th team on Sunday. 
Thirds started with a home loss 2-1 to Carrickmines 5th followed by a home win 2-1 against Netwonpark 2. 
All three teams have started well and hopefully at least one team will bring home a penant this year..  

Good Luck to all Teams, Alan Barrett

Spring Team Tennis gets underway

After a weather induced delay the spring team tennis got underway in earnest last week. Mary Sherry and her team had some goodies to send us out on the courts and most people enjoyed a glass of vino afterwards.
The scores on the doors after the first week are as follows:

Wednesday:

Team
A 23 points
B 29
C 39
D 37
E 41
F 31

Thursday:

Team
G 37 points
H 32
I 31
J 34
K 38
L Free Wk
M 28


Best of luck for this week - check the blog for updates on the scores later in the week.

Yvonne

Elm Park AGM : - Covered Courts Presentation

Please Click on this Link below, to View Covered Courts Presentation
as delivered on Friday 14th January 2011 at Club AGM.

Covered Courts Presentation

Ladies Winter League 2011

Elm Park 1st Ladies team won today, Sunday 23rd, at home. 
 We beat lansdowne 4th team 2-1.
Jean & Deirdre, won after a long battle, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3.
Mary G. and Lisa M., won in straight sets 6-1, 7-5.
Annette & Ann G. lost in a close match, 6-1, 6-4.
Well done everyone. Its a great start to our 2011 Winter League campaign

Picking up the reins and Best Wishes to Linda

On behalf of us all I would like to thank Linda for her sterling work not just in drumming up support for the covered courts but also for a wonderful year as tennis captain in Elm Park in 2010.

Now that your new committee is installed we have picked up the reins and the first event, the Spring Team Tennis, starts tonight for the Wednesday teams and tomorrow for the Thursday teams. Hope all enjoy the tennis.

Make sure you acquaint yourself with the amendment to the -15 rule for when playing as or against a ladies pairing and don't get caught out by the 10 minute late penalty rule.

We are working on posting the cumulative scores on the website each week so keep any eye out on how your team is doing.

Finally put finals night, the 10th March, in your diary now so you don't miss the first social event of the calendar.

Yvonne

Signing off on 2010

As most of you now know a few days after the last posting on the Blog I suffered a brain haemorrhage. I was very lucky and am well on the road to full recovery. My biggest problem is fatigue and I've been very limited in how much I can do since. Mark and the rest of the committee were wonderful and kept everything going. My energies have mostly been confined to working on the campaign to bring Covered Courts to Elm Park. I am delighted to tell you that we have been successful - there was an overwhelming YES to the proposal at the AGM last Friday night. This is thanks to the hard work of the sub committee who researched the various options and came up with a viable proposal. That committee comprised Mark Sobczyk, Jack O'Keeffe, Alan Barrett, John Ryan and Pete Lowther. The Tennis, Green and Finance committees all approved and recommended the proposal to the Management Board who approved it unanimously. The next step was to make people aware of our plans and to convince them to attend the Club AGM and vote in favour. We had a fabulous presentation courtesy of Mark which we made on several occasions. This coupled with numerous phone calls made by the Tennis Committee and myself culminated with an attendance of some 250 members at the AGM which was incredible.

My thanks are due to each and everyone of you for your support throughout the year and especially for such a rousing endorsement of our work this year.

I wish Mark and Yvonne and the incoming committee the best of luck in 2011 - I've no doubt but that they will continue with the good work of recent years.

Over and out!

Linda