Wednesday 13 February 2013

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










Monday 4 February 2013

The La Perla Round Robin


La Perla 3rd 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.