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!