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NOVEMBER 2024
Hello members
I bet you were not expecting that! The midweek team hosted Tai Tapu on Halloween and it was a spooky yet delicious encounter.
One morning this week, our team gathered on the lawn courts, and it was hard not to say, "How lucky are we?" The courts on Rows 4 and 5 are in fantastic condition, a testament to the dedication and hard work of our groundskeeper and volunteers.
Planning for our 50th Anniversary Lawn Tournament (January 2025) is nearly complete. Please let any of the committee know if you can help out in any way, either before or during the event. Even if you are playing, you will have time in-between to lend a hand. This is the highlight social event of the summer and we want you to be part of it. Further on in this email we have a list of our tournament sponsors, please have a read and support their businesses.
Our Club is experiencing new parking challenges, and this is touched on further down this newsletter, please give it a read.
We warmly welcome new members:
Senior Members:
Haenon, Jude Laing, Chi Rouse-Armadi, Thomas Quayle
and welcome back from sabbatical Guiseppe Loporcaro
Junior Members:
Adam Sunderland, Micah Liu, Mykhail Mercer-Clark and Eden Konia
We're in the final stages of sending out the annual membership invoices. If you haven't seen yours yet, please check your inbox for an email with the subject line "Invoice from TKHP Tennis Club."
If you can't find it or believe you haven't received it, please don't hesitate to contact Larissa at members@tkhptennis.nz. She'll be glad to assist you in checking the status of your invoice.
Prompt payments help us continue to keep the club running smoothly, and we greatly appreciate your support and attention to this.
Dates for your calendar:
9 November - Premier Women and Men playing at TKHP Tennis Club. Come and show your support and enjoy the day.
24th November - (Sunday) Quiz Night - don't miss out, organise your team now!!
11-13 December 9-1pm Holiday Academy/Camp
16-20 December 9-1pm Holiday Academy/Camp
16 December - pm Hot Shots Tournament
13/14/15 January 2025 - Junior Lawn Tennis Tournament
16 January 10am Working Bee on Clubhouse
17 - 19 January 2025 - 50th Anniversary Lawn Court Tennis Tournament @ TKHP
| Accepting raffle prizes or $$ donations towards this major club fundraiser. |
Business Opportunity
TKHP Tennis would like to offer you an opportunity to advertise
What you get:
1 year = a banner with your logo on one net post.
Banner size 60cm wide x 55cm tall
Features a white horizontal stripe at the top to match the net tape.
(The banners fold over the top of the net / visible from both ends of the court).
$300.00 + GST for the first year
$250.00 + GST for subsequent years
Note that in the photo below, the banner size is enlarged 90cm x 90cm and doesn’t feature the white stripe.
For more information/enquiry please email info@tkhptennis.nz.
Another opportunity awaits for volunteers in January.
On Thursday the 16th at 10am we require many helpful hands for an hour of cleaning. The Club is hosting the Lawn Tennis Seniors Tournament the following day, and we would like to present a tidy Club House. There will be coffee/tea/scones for helpers!
Some more mid-week tennis photos of our spooky lunch
Parking
It has been noted that parking in the car park opposite the club continues to be a significant challenge, particularly for members trying to access the club before 3pm on weekdays.
As part of their long term plan, the Christchurch City Council have enacted a new pay to park regime in four of the carparks in Hagley Park.
Fees are $2 for the first hour and then $1.30 for each additional hour, up to a maximum of $4.60 for three hours - seven days a week, from 8am to 5pm.
To help ease access issues to the club, the committee have agreed to retain parking inside the club grounds:
- between 8am and 3:30pm on weekdays for senior members attending the club to play tennis (no other reasons).
- The gates by the volleyboard (hitting wall) will be controlled by coaches and will be unlocked during these times. We believe we can safely accomodate up to 8 vehicles in the area to the North of the clubhouse.
- This parking area should be used as a last resort - we ask all members to look for spots in the main car park before taking up one of these spots.
- We note that after 3:30pm, the club hosts large numbers of junior players. Cars should be moved out of the temporary parking before 3:30pm. In the event, where this is not possible, then the car will need to remain parked through to 6pm.
Parents of junior players:
We note the potential for similar parking difficulties at pick-up and drop-off time.
However due to the number of young members onsite, we regret that parking in the grounds is not available for pick-up or drop-off.
As a potential solution where parking is not available, please pull in to the right hand side of the access road and ensure that there is space for traffic to pass.If needed, please be prepared to circulate around the car-park.
Just letting you all know we have some amazing deals at the moment.
We have a range of highly rated racquets at SUPER LOW prices for the next two weeks - and demos are available!
Just some examples:
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We also have some amazing deals on a range of Babolat and Lotto Tennis shoes. Multiple models with RRP from $199 - $269 selling for under $150!
There are also great deals on high quality tennis bags, balls, grips and other accessories. We have everything you need to perform at your best.
Talk to Hugo to view our gear or demo racquets.
022 6460617
theracquetroomnz@gmail.com
Canterbury Junior Interclub grades have completed two rounds, and the majority of our 18 junior teams (2 more than last season 
) are competing well. Most players are getting competitive matches and the majority of our teams are in the top half of the scoreboard. Our coaches are particularly happy to see a great number of TKHP juniors enjoying themselves during team practices and steadily improving their skills.
A massive thank you from Hugo and Kerryn to all the parents who have accepted managing duties for their child’s team. It is a huge help to us and to all parents and players involved in interclub. Credit to all of you that we have fielded full teams for all our teams’ matches so far and we’ll try and keep that going! We also thank all parents for their patience with us as we find our feet with the junior administration role. We hope to steadily improve though the season and into the next!
We hope that a large number of our players will seek extra matchplay and have a go at some regional tournaments over the coming months. For primary school players, the Canterbury Primary School champs is on at Show Weekend and the ENTRIES CLOSE TONIGHT (THURSDAY) 11:59PM. In the Xmas holidays there is the Canterbury Xmas tourney and a new Tier 2 Canterbury tourney 21-24 Jan.
To enter these tournaments, go to https://tnz.tournamentsoftware.com/ click “tournaments” then enter “Canterbury" and you’ll find these events.
Even more importantly for our club members I hope … .TKHP will host it’s annual junior and open grade Grass Court Tournament with singles and doubles from January 13-15 and online entry will be possible on the tournament software from December 1.
Our Summer Hot Shots coaching is underway and our TKHP coaches have loved coaching our young groups. There are so many enthusiastic and skilful kids taking part - we hope to nurture this talent and grow everyone’s love of the game.
Parents, please put into your calendars that there will be a HOT SHOTS TOURNAMENT for all levels (Red, Orange and Green) that the kids can enter at the end of this coaching term on MONDAY 16th DEC.
Ads will be posted at the end of November on Facebook and emails sent to all parents of Hot Shots.
Let me introduce your Committee to you: Trevor Lau (President), Mark Stringer (Vice President), Larissa Allan (Treasurer and Member administrator), Vicky Jones (Secretary), Hugo Strang (Head Coach), Christine Yap (Coach) Beth Williamson (Club Captain), Michelle North-Kelsen, Bryce Thomson (Grounds Manager) and Tim Preston.
Thanking our Sponsors for new Astro courts 7 and 8 - booked in to resurface in November.
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