Following the latest Government announcement on Thursday 28 May on the easing of lockdown restrictions the LTA have now updated their rules and guidelines for tennis. These are the latest updates:
- Both singles and doubles play is now permitted with people from outside of your household as long as you remain 2 metres apart as far as possible – meaning that four people from different households can now play doubles
- Use alcohol gel after touching any court gates etc and avoid doing so where possible
- Hand hygiene is imperative – use alcohol gel to clean your hands after touching a shared surface
- Players do NOT now need to use their own clearly marked tennis balls – however, if you choose to use shared balls extra care must be taken to ensure you do not touch your face during play and you should clean your hands before play ad immediately after finishing
There will be no club sessions available so please only go to the club if you have a pre-booked, pre-arranged court booked. Please do not arrange for several people to come down and then have people waiting for ‘their turn’. The guidelines state that people should not be waiting around. You should come to the club for your pre-booked session, play tennis and then go home afterwards.
Please make sure you book a court in advance (there have been a few issues with the booking system but these have now been sorted out).
The clubhouse will remain closed for the time being as we do not have the resources to sanitise everything after each use – we apologise for the inconvenience that this may cause.
Further details can be read here: https://www.lta.org.uk/globalassets/news/2020/lta-guidance-for-tennis-players---covid-19.pdf
We thank you all for your co-operation in complying with the guidelines so that the club can remain open.
Enjoy playing tennis in this wonderful weather!!
Shirley
On behalf of the committee
Welcome to the CPLTC website...
We are a friendly club that welcomes players of all ages and abilities, from beginner to the more competitive player.
There is an active social side with fun events and barbecues, making full use of our attractive secluded setting and new club house. We have floodlights which enable tennis to be played all year round.
We also run several social sessions for men, ladies, juniors and mixed groups to play together and have a close link with Amherst Primary School.
We have several adult teams entered in the Kent leagues and a wide and varied junior programme with some competing at county level.
Summer Competition Finals' Day 2020
On Sunday we had a fantastic turnout for finals day and all enjoyed a (socially distanced) afternoon of tennis. The doubles finals were particularly tense with both matches being decided on a championship tie-break.
Congratulations to all our winners, and the runners-up for making it through to the finals and thank you to everyone who entered this year – we are looking forward to even more entering next year.
The results were as follows:
Men’s SinglesWinner: Jamie Christian Runner-Up: Joe Baker |
Ladies' SinglesWinner: Ella Walker Runner-Up: Hannah Rae |
Ladies' DoublesTBC - Sandra Pease & JoAnn Aaron vs Julie Brown & Bryony Maiklem - 10th October 9:30am |
Men’s DoublesWinners: James Thresher & Jonah Radcliffe Runners-Up: Joe Baker & David Bishop |
Mixed DoublesWinners: Ella Walker & Bradley Gold Runners-Up: Jackie Allen & Ed Walker |
Mixed GenerationWinners: Stephen Prior & Jonah Prior Runners-Up: Ed Walker & Ella Walker |
Thank you to our umpires on the day: Dick Thomson, Alan Burner, Elliot Fry, Duncan Pease and David Pettitt. Thank you to Pat & Ian Udall and Peter Wade for getting the lawns, courts and chairs ready for the day and thank you to Magdalen for helping me to make the day a success.
2020 Finals Winners
