Xmas Round Robin

Dear Mistletoes and Happy Elves
The Xmas Round Robin will start sharply at 9. The draw will take place,and the competition will start at 9.30.
Please dont forget to bring a gift for Secret Santa.

AGM Sunday

Dear Members

A reminder that the AGM is this Sunday the 8th of DEC at 12 pm.

All members are reminded to attend and vote for the new committee and resolutions.

If you are unable to attend, then to make sure you have signed a proxy form.

Resolutions will be emailed to you shortly.

Regards

  Nick

Honouring Charles Wyndham

Clifton Tennis Club was honoured to have  a  visit by Sadie Wyndham and her family yesterday, to lay flowers to commemorate Charles Wyndham's birthday.

Sadie Wyndham (centre), her daughter, Irene, and son-in-law, Karl, honouring the late Charles Wyndham, CTC Founder member, born 90 years ago (1924) today, 1st December 2013.

Flowers for Charles Wyndham

Thanks to Russel for the pictures.

Rare sighting

From Pat

Herewith a pic of a very rare bird . I was lucky to catch it unawares .  I
am sure the members will be delighted to see it on the blog and will be on
the lookout for more appearances.

Our New Members

Dear Members
I hope everyone is aware of, or has actually seen our New Members, the family Dikkop.
Pat has taken upon himself to ensure they are at home.
He posted these pictures to me of the ramp he constructed to help the twins get over the court perimeter  wall. 
Great stuff Pat.

Ladies Champs

The Picture of the Ladies Champs was inadvertently excluded from the last posting. 

Wendy and Glynis share a moment with Gus

The Annual Club Dinner and Prize Giving

The Club Dinner held at the Mykonos restaurant in Sea Point on Sunday the 20th, was a resounding success. Fantastic food and wine and a great atmosphere.
41 one people attended and Luigi, who was unable to come due to work commitments, suprised us by dropping in for drinks. Also attending were Ingrid and Cheryl.
Roger was a gallant M.C, although talking in a noisy restaurant is not easy, and  he  introduced  the winners of the Championships.
After the main course, Roger presented special category prizes.  "The penguin" went to the best dressed lady of the evening. Other prizes  presented, were "the never say die horse" to Gus and the "voodoo doll" to Gavin.
 The Chairman presented 4 special prizes, a bottle of wine each to Roger and Neville for extra work done for the Club, organizing the Box League and dealing with the Council over rates.

 

A box of chocolates were presented to 'Old Friends', Cheryl Ingrid and Ralph

The gracious organisers of the Dinner

Club Champ

Vets' Doubles Champs

Guillermo and Sally

Maestro

A Raffle was held for a signed Roger Federer cap and was won By Helen Hall.

Winner of the RF cap.

Table 3 

Table 2

Winner of the "best dressed penguin" prize

Winner of the 'Voodoo doll' prize

The M.C with the Winner of the 'Never say Die Horse" prize

Fred and guests

Annual Club Dinner

The annual Club Dinner will be held tomorrow, Sunday the 20th at Mykanos Restaurant in Seapoint. 7.30pm.
Prizes will be presented to the Club Champions of 2013, plus other surprise prizes.

The Main Prizes are as follows :

Mens Singles:   Tobie Mynhardt.
Mens Open Doubles:   Shiraz Cerfontein and Mike Wolffe
Ladies Sigles:   Glynis Gillot
Ladies Doubles:   Glynis Gillot and Wendy Fredman
Vets Singles:    Mike Wolffe
Mens Vets Doubles:   Charl Dreyer and Nick Fredman
Mixed Doubles:   Anita Prendegast and Russel Dor

The La Perla Cup:    Russel Dor.

Any member who still wants to come is still able to turn up on the night and pay at the door
and join in the celebration of a unique Club

Spring

Dear Members

Spring is almost here. The Club held a bring and Braai and social tennis on Heritage day.
There was a good turn out and the weather was superb, lots of tennis was played and a great braai followed.

The August Box League results were posted and a new Box will start for Sept- Nov.

Top of Box 1 was Tobie
Top of Box 2 was  Charl
Top of Box 3 was  Carol

Hopefully swallows will be returning soon and injuries will abate, allowing more participants.

The Maintainance Committee  has put new drainage on court 1,  which was subject to constant water
running across the court.

Finally please note the Club Dinner is likely to be on Oct 20th which is a Sunday.

Regards

Nick

Pictures of the New Moon and Venus

Roger Trythall has posted these pictures of the New Moon and Venus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DPqgE5pqA&feature=youtu.be

Box League has begun in earnest I believe Gus and Mike Wolffe had victories.

I am playing with some friends from Austria early mornings before it gets too humid, dodging mosquitoes.

Nearest tennis court is 25 k away.

Nick

Friendly with The Glen and Monday Mix

Saturday Morning Players had a friendly with 6 Glen players this Saturday.
Clifton represented by Gus, Geoff, Charl, John, Nick and Pat.
Glen represented by Duggie, Rainer, Ronnie, George, Jack and Gordon.
Clifton held it's head up with a victory 6 sets to 3.

It was fun and it was agreed to a return.

Meanwhile Monday Mix will take place this Monday with 16 players down and 2 on reserve.

It is proposed that this Mix will take place once a month on the 3rd Monday of the month.
Those interested must add their names to the list on the noticeboard.

Mens Open Final

The Mens Open Doubles' Final took place on Sunday on a lovely sunny morning.

Russel, Ivor, Shiraz and Mike after the Match.

Mike Wolffe and Shiraz Cerfontein played Russel Dor and Ivor Kaye.

The first match was taken by Mike and Shiraz 6-2 but Russel and Ivor came back strongly and the second set was even at 5 -5 but Shiraz and Mike, showing maturity and calmness took the match 7-5.

Winners of the 2013 Mens Open Doubles

Winter Tennis

Storms upon us but too our surprise we were able to play on Monday evening with a group of 10 players.
Monday Tennis will be structured twice a month or according to the response maybe just once a month to start with and we will see how it goes. I will send out a mail to all members shortly.
Watch this space as well.

Box League will also start soon so watch out for an email soon.

The Mens Open Doubles Final will take place on Sunday weather permitting!

MIXED DOUBLES FINAL

In good weather and a before a small audience of members, the
Mixed Doubles was played on Sunday and ran to 3 sets.
It was a very tight and close match for 2 sets.
The third set saw Russel and Anita gain a leading advantage and win the Match convincingly.

Well played to the Champions and Runners up.

Russel and Anita, 2013 Mixed Doubles Champs

In almost perfect conditions 4 finals were played on Sunday morning before a good number of members who saw some enjoyable rallies played in a very sporting manner .

Womens Singles:            Glynnis Gillot defeated Anita Prendergrast  6 – 0 ; 6 -2;
Mens Veterans Singles:  Mike Wolffe defeated Gus Millner  6 – 3 ; 6 – 1;
Mens Open Singles:       Tobie Mynhardt defeated Shiraz Cerfontein 6- 2 ; 6 – 1
Womens Doubles:          Wendy Fredman & Glynnis Gillot defeated Marianne Wicht & Claire von Turenhout 6-1 ; 6-2
The Bring and Braai which followed, could have better supported, but those who stayed had a most enjoyable time.

 

Finally, please give some thought ( a proposal will be put forward in due course) as to whether FUTURE CHAMPIONSHIPS  should be restricted to just  2 or 3 weeks and NO LONGER or, if extended, what format is preferred.

We hope to arrange another BOX LEAGUE to be played June/July – will call for entries shortly.  

 

 All the best Clifton Committee

Winner of the Open Singles

Tobie and Shiraz  holding each other up after Tobie won the match

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Winner of the Vets Singles

 Gus and Mike after Mike won his match

In the semi final Russel Dor and Anita Prendegast beat Glynis Gillot and Stuart Collier
6-4 6-2

News

This Sunday four Finals are being played:

Glynis vs Anita in the Ladies Singles

Gus vs Mike Wolffe in the Vets Singles

Tobie vs Shiraz in the Open Singles

and Wendy and Glynis Vs Claire and Marianne in the Ladies Doubles RR

Roger has posted a video of the Teddy Tennis coaching at the Glen with
Keagen and Mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szA_rhxK7ao&feature=youtu.be

Congratulations to Mike Wolffe who has returned from  the Inter Provincials +70's

Victorious.

And finally the Club welcomes the following new Members for this new financial year:

Oct 12   Mike Wolffe

Nov 12  Michael Fouche

Jan 13    Claire von Turenhout

                Preben Skak-Jensen
                Fernando Gomes

Feb 13   Doug Wilson

                Sally Price (rejoined)

Mar 13  Astrid Koch

Apr 13   Caroline Maritz

                Manie Maritz

                John Tedder

                Timm von Bragen

                Friedrich Tienemann
                

Finals approaching

Dear Members

I have just returned from a trip in Europe and had the pleasure of playing tennis
with Mark and Richard at their local Tennis Club outside  Bath.
http://www.lansdownclub.co.uk
A very relaxed Club with carpet courts. Clifton has another connection with this Club as the Proudfoots, Luanne and Finley are also members, in fact I saw that Finley was standing for the committee.
Membership there is about R7000 per year!

Mark and Richard send their regards and look forward to visiting in the future.

Finals are approaching and an email has been sent out by the Organising Committee
regarding the matches and a bring and braai on Sunday 5th,

The Clifton Tennis Championships

Dear Members

The Championships are winding towards a finish and we hope to complete outstanding matches by May 15th.

The Committee has realised  that the time given to complete  the tournament  is an issue.

We will put it to the members that  next years tournament will have to be played in a shorter period and those not complying will forfeit their position.

We suggest that the tournament is played in a tighter time frame, and players secure partners who will be available for the matches.

We have had  trouble this year with players going away, getting injured, withdrawing and we believe that playing to a tighter deadline will solve a lot of these issues.

The  Committee welcomes suggestions as to how the tournament can be improved.

Thanks
Nick

New Notice Board and Suggestion Box

Dear Members

To encourage more communication between members and the committee, we have installed a new notice board. 

The board is a news and notice board for members to use as well as the Committee.

You will also notice the new suggestion Box and  members are encouraged to write anything that they wish the Committee to be aware of, take cognisance, of  as well as ideas and suggestions, either anonymously or specifically.

The Championships are going well, (for the winners).

Some surprises, well done Gavin on beating Gus.

Once again we urge contenders to communicate with all players to avoid misunderstandings

when arranging matches.

Do your best to be timely.

For the Ladies playing the Round Robin format here is a guide to the point system:

1 point for playing or being able and willing to play.

1 point for each set won.

1 point for each match won.

0 points to the pair that offers a walk over.

Here are the points to date.

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.