Dear Member,   The 2022 CWLTC Open Week is taking place from Saturday July 23 to July 30.   During Open Week, CWLTC throws open its doors to players and visitors from other clubs and the competition and conviviality of this festival of tennis creates a truly unique atmosphere in the Club.   For the past 2 years, we continued to run Open Week but due to the pandemic, it was very much behind closed doors. This year we are delighted to let you know that we will return to the CWLTC Open Week we all remember.  Each evening during the week the bar and kitchen…

Dear Members, Friday June 24th will see the first of our Summer BBQ’s in the club. The evening will feature a number of tennis related activities to help you to build up an appetite.    We will be running a social tennis fast fours and our coaching team will be demonstrating some new tennis formats that are proving very popular worldwide, including Pickle Ball and Touch Tennis.    The numbers for the tennis element of the evening are limited to 30, and sign up is available under the Events tile on Smart, select the ‘Social Tennis and BBQ’ option.  Please…

Dear Members,   The draw and schedule for the Club Handicaps is now available here.   Matches are starting this Thursday and we would ask that if you are unable to play at your allotted time, please let the Tennis Committee know so that we may release the pre-booked courts to allow other members book the time slot.   Don’t forget: Short sets will be played. The first to 6 games wins the set. 6-5 wins the set. First point after deuce wins the game. Matches will be the best of three sets, except in the Mixed Doubles event, where the…

Dear Members,   In recent months demand for our courts has increased and the General Committee is very aware of this and are actively monitoring court usage.  We would like to take this opportunity to remind all members of etiquette around court usage.   If you have booked a court and are unable to play, as courtesy to fellow members, please cancel the court giving sufficient time for someone else to avail of that particular time slot. It has been noticed that on several occasions courts are released shortly before the scheduled game was due to be played.  Sometimes this…

Dear Members, The Tennis Committee would like to advise all members of the forthcoming Summer League fixtures. This is the first time since 2019 that DLTC have been able to run Summer Leagues and it is great to see competitive tennis back on the calendar. Summer Leagues are the premier event in the DLTC calendar and we have entered 4 ladies teams and 5 men's teams. As a result 5 courts will be required for league matches for approximately 2 hours four days per week . We apologise for the loss of court availability at these times but hope that by giving the dates…

Dear Members, Summer League is starting next Friday May 6, so if you haven't yet signed up yet and would like to play please do as soon as possible.  Sign up is open on Smart Club under 'Events' and will be closing on Saturday.   Each team consists of 7 players, 3 singles and 2 doubles pairings.  So when signing up please ensure that you select the appropriate event (singles or doubles), and don't worry about entering your doubles partner's name, we will be able to pair people up with their preferred partner. Men's matches are played on Friday evenings or Saturday afternoons and Ladies matches are played on Tuesday…

Dear Members, The inaugural Spring Singles Championships was a roaring success. It was run over the Easter holidays and attracted 90 players which it a fantastic number for a singles only event. There where three separate levels of singles competition to appeal to members of all standards. Thanks to all members who took part, we hope you enjoyed the event. A special thanks to Ciara Baguley & Caroline Blennerhassett for the time they put into planning, organizing and scheduling the events. The finals night with award ceremony was a fabulous evening and a great success and was attended by 60+ people. Thanks must go to Mark…

Dear Members, We would like to let you know that CWLTC is teaming up with Bray Area Partnership to deliver Fáilte Isteach Conversational English language classes on Thursday mornings to new communities including Ukrainian refugees and people living in direct provision locally.    The classes will run every Thursday morning from 9.30am - 11.30am in the Clubhouse, so if you are up in the Club please say hello.  Also if you are hosting any families please let them know that these classes are taking place and that they are welcome to join.  Fáilte Isteach is a national Third Age Ireland…

Dear Members, We have been approached by someone who is researching ways to recycle tennis balls.  To help with this they need a large number of old tennis balls and have placed a blue container in the lobby to collect these from our members. So the next time you are up for a game, or if you are coming up to watch the Singles Championships semi finals tomorrow evening or the finals on Saturday afternoon bring any old tennis balls you have with you and drop them into the container.  Many thanks The General Committee

Dear Members,   Our friends in Greystones Tennis Club Senior Open Tournament runs from the 30th of April to the 7th May this year. Greystones members are huge supporters of our own Open, so please support them and enter if you can. The closing date to enter is this Sunday 24th click here to enter. For those of you that enjoy playing competitively entering Opens is a great way to improve your game and your fitness level. The Tennis Ireland sanctioned Tour Schedule can be viewed here. The Dublin summer circuit is very popular with Carrickmines, Templeogue and Castleknock attracting huge entries and all a short commute…