2013 Clifton Tennis Club Championships

Dear Members

The Draws for the 2013 Champs are available for viewing on this Blog at the Site, Tennis Draws.com

Click the tag on the top of the site  " Tennis Draws"

This will take you to the Tennis-Draws.com site where you will find a

"Search for a Draw" button where you must type in 'Clifton'

This will take you to all the Draws except the Ladies Doubles which will be listed  on this Blog as a round robin.

When you click on a draw you will see 2  options:

 Main Draw and Main Draw results.

If you click on the initials listed, this will take you to the posted Draw.

We will also put the sheets up on the noticeboard.

Thank you
Club Conveners

The 2013 Clifton Championships Ladies Doubles

Ladies Doubles Round Robin

   The Draw for the Round Robin is posted on the Club noticeboard and below ,
   for your information

The La Perla Round Robin

La Perla 3^rd February 2013

This took place in rather more wind than was thought. Nevertheless there were 26 participants including guests of members. Each were assigned to be either “stayers” or “swappers” and assigned within 3 groups of 4 pairs.

According to Luigi, who has kindly arranged the trophy La Perla and the winners’ vouchers for a number of years, this was top turnout compared to earlier times.

From the 3 groups the following emerged as top of the respective groups:

·       Group 1 (Rosso) Marie Perry (swapper) with 13 points; Charl Dreyer (stayer) with 15 points

·       Group 2 (Bianco) Gavin Smith (swapper) with 16 points; Russel Dor (stayer) with 19 points

·       Group 3 (Verde) Giulio Marabini (swapper) with 18 points; Frans van Pallander (stayer) with 14 points

The following were very close in their groups: Roger Perry (stayer) with 14 points, Vanessa September (swapper)  with 15 points and Shiraz (swapper) with 17 points. His partner let him down.

The two top swappers and two top stayers played out the final with victory going to Russel Dor (9 points), followed by Giulio Marabini (7 points, Charl Dreyer (5 points) and Gavin Smith (3 points).

Thanks again go to Luigi during this difficult time; to Marianne who organised the tea, to Nick and Charl for arranging the draw and preparing the score sheets, enabling play to commence promptly. Also thanks to Neville for collecting the entrance payments.  (posted by Roger).

Thanks to Roger for his help, particularly in the final format and for the following Photographs and Videos

El Capitano

Members enjoy the sunshine

Guilio and Charl, finalists

Guilio receives his voucher

Russel, 2013 winner of the La Perla Cup

Gavin receives his La Perla Voucher

 Charl, runner up.

NEWS UPDATE

Dear Members

This is the first newsletter of 2013. 
Following the AGM the new committee has had 2 meetings, one to elect the office bearers and then a regular meeting to deal with business at hand.

The New Committee

The committee has a new secretary,  Roger Trythall, replacing Mark Humble, 
Neville Lampert continues as Treasurer and I continue as Chairman.
We have a new committee member, Charl Dreyer.  Gus Millner and Darel Orkin are the other two members.
Minutes of the last meeting will be posted on the notice board  and a new notice board will be installed to carry copies of the Blog and general news.
Items discussed at the last meeting were, fence maintenance, Clubhouse maintenance , rates, forthcoming championships and  membership updates.

Farewells and Welcomes

It is with sadness that we say farewell to longstanding members. 
Members relocating this year are Richard and Mark moving back to England, Cheryl and Ingrid, playing at Constantia and Stan and Maureen, playing at Gardens. We sincerely hope that past members will keep up with events at Clifton Tennis Club and are welcome to visit from time to time as Gilly and Dave Shreeve did a few Sundays ago.
Several members are also holding off membership due to injuries and we wish speedy recovery to Carol, Nadine, Mare and Paula and  also hope to see Pat and Barry back on the courts soon.
We  also extend a warm welcome  to  the several new Members who have recently joined.
Alison Montague, Michael Fouche, Michael Wolffe and Preben Skak-Jensen and Claire Van Turenhout.

Social Tennis

Social tennis has been lively lately as we start a new year.  Weather permitting. 
3 to 4 courts were in use on Wednesday and Sundays have been equally busy.
Just a reminder to make sure Subs are paid before Thurs 31st.

The La Perla Round Robin

The La Perla will take place on Sun the 3rd Feb, entrants must have notified the committee by Fri the 1st.

Championships

From Roger.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We would like to get the annual championships underway by 15th February 2013. If you would like to participate, please advise the conveners by 5th February 2013, which is just under 2 weeks from today.

The conveners are Gus Milner, Darel Orkin plus AN Other

There are the following categories:

1. Lady's Open Singles
2. Lady's Open Doubles
3. Men's Open Singles
4. Men's Open Doubles
5. Men's Vets Singles
6. Men's Vet's Doubles
7. Mixed Open Doubles

There are no Lady's vets.

Conditions for entry are:

1. Annual Subscriptions 2013 should be fully paid by 31st January 2013
2. Vets are 55 and over in the year 2013
3. Fee per category is R 30 and can be paid directly to the club account or by cash to Neville and should be paid along simultaneously with application to participate.

May I on behalf of the conveners ask that you advise soonest of your wish to participate. It seems there are more active members than before and it does take considerable time and effort to arrange the various draws etc. Your cooperation is appreciated.

May I also ask that the trophy winners of 2012 to ensure that engraving has taken place and to deliver the trophies to Nick by 15th March 2013.

Security

A  brazen thief walked into the Toilets and rifled the cash box while Social tennis was underway last Sunday. He claimed to be a council worker and cleverly left no suspicious

evidence. On closer inspection he had cut through the padlock clasp and left all the envelopes behind.

The committee is discussing what further security measures can be taken but we do advise all members not to leave valuables around the clubhouse while unattended and to confront strangers who walk into the Club grounds.

Christmas Round Robin

Another perfect day in Africa with a cool breeze in the background. Temperature in the 30's.
16 players and other members gathered on the green lawns of the club today under the instructions of Santa who had drawn names out of his red hat.
Two groups of 8 players were drawn, with each pairing consisting of a stayer and a swapper.
each pair played 3 sets with a swap half way.
After all games were played the final scores were:

Giullio 21
Shiraz 15
Ivor 18
Nick18
A final match of 12 games with each player partnering a different player for the set, followed and the final scores were;

Giullio 9 points
Shiraz 7 points
Ivor 7 points
and Nick 1 point

Well done Giullio and the runners up, Ivor and Shiraz.
Prizes were presented to the Champions plus the winners of the Box league.

A super braai followed with more tennis in the afternoon, all in all a great day at Clifton Tennis Club

Box League Final Results

Box A: Tobie

Box B: Charl

Box C: Richard

Box D: Roger

Box E: Suzanne

Rumble in the Jungle

TENNIS EVENT

TOBIE

VS

MIKE

Saturday Morning

  1st Dec

Refreshments will be available