Saturday 30 April 2016

Rally for Bally 2016 - Saturday 4th June 1 pm till late

We are getting ready for our annual Rally for Bally event. Last year we raised almost £15,000 thanks in no small part to your generous donation to our raffle and auction.

We are very grateful to Vanilla Square who have come on board as our main sponsor this year so that every penny we make on the day can go straight to the charities.

This year we are raising money for Elena Baltacha Foundation, Playlist for Life (Sally Magnusson's dementia charity) and also Cancer Support Scotland (based at Gartnavel Hospital).

We have a day of fun filled activities planned from 1pm including live music, interviews with Sally Magnusson and friends about their playlists and then our usual tennis fun with confirmed players so far:

"BBC Burds": Kaye Adams, Sally Magnusson and Judith Ralston
 
"Sporting Heroes": Ian McCall, Alan Rough and commentator Alison Walker

and our very own River City superstar, Sanjeev Kohli 

as well as free coaching and tennis challenges throughout the day.

Tickets are on sale via www.jumblebee.co.uk/rallyforbally2016. Tickets are £15 for adults and £10 for children and the ticket price includes food from our on site restaurant, Caffe Parma.

It would be great if you could spread the word about this great event and if you were able to contribute to our raffle or auction then please get in touch.

Best wishes and many thanks, 

Julie Gordon
Western Tennis Club

Tuesday 26 April 2016

Rally for Bally 2016


Tickets are now on sale for the Western Tennis Club's annual Charity Tennis Event. Live music, interviews with Sally Magnusson and friends and tennis fun with stars from TV and sport.

This year's nominated charities are: Elena Baltacha Foundation, Playlist for Life and Cancer Support Scotland

Friday 22 April 2016

April News

Welcome to the Western Club News

- Squash Club Champs Finals
Vets Victories
- Charity Event Saturday 23rd April
-
 Tennis Season kicking off
- Sponsorship required
- Facebook

 

Squash Club Champs Finals 2016 
Results are in!
Ladies Plate - Won by Jakki Fennessey on a walk over
Men’s Plate Won by Robin Smith after Doug Andrew twisted his ankle at 1 all
Vets won by Graham Dunns over Paul Whiteley 3-1
Ladies Champs Won by Mhairi Charlton over Alison  Morris 3-0
Men’s Champs won by Peter Halliday over Stephen Halliday 3-0

Vets Victories!
A great weekend for Western winning the women's over 55 knockout cup (a hat trick we hear) and the men's over 40 knockout cup. Our pictures feature today's players but all squad players mentioned below:
Men's over 40
Tony miles
Tony Williamson
Gordon McGuigan
Roddy Mackintosh
Dave Kelly
John Colvan
Stuart Clarke 
Women's over 55 
Julia Campbell
Jennie MacDonald
Maggie McLellan
Olive Pearson
Liz McCruden
Eileen Lindsay 
Congratulations to all!!
Charity Tennis Event Saturday 23rd April

There are only 2 spaces left for this event! thanks to everyone who signed up in advance from our whiteboard notice! If you would like to take part, email westerntenniscoachingclub@gmail.com

2 - 330 - fun drills and coaching
330 - 5 - American Tournie

Cost £10 with a slice of pizza at the end. All proceeds go to charity.

N.B. We are fundraising to support one of our tennis coaches who is going to Zambia to coach tennis over there this summer.

If you would like to sponsor this event, please click HERE
 
Other News

Tennis Season

The tennis season is kicking off this Friday night so please check google calendar HERE to check tennis court availability. There are occasions where all 6 courts are being used. We try to avoid this wherever possible. But this Friday night for example, from 630, all 6 courts will be used.

We would also encourage you to come down and support the teams. There are lots of great matches on and now with the balcony in operation and the sun shining, there's nothing stopping us!

Sponsorship required

We are looking for a sponsor to help us with the Rally for Bally Charity event on Saturday 4th June. The sponsorship requited is to cover the cost of hiring the stand and PA system for the event. We are about to start our PR for the event so opportunity for sponsors to be mentioned and have a lot of visibility in our marketing of this event. Please contact Julie on 07910126452 or email juliegtennis@gmail.com if you want to have a chat about this.

Facebook 

More and more we are communicating via faceboook so please give our pages a like for up today info!

https://www.facebook.com/Western-Health-Racquets-Club-102932193079041/
https://www.facebook.com/rally4ballyWesternGlasgow/?fref=ts

Fitness Event

Whitecraigs Event - How to condition your body for racquet sports

We thought you might be interested in attending an event running at Whitecraigs tennis club. Resident sports injury and health experts as well as their tennis coach are putting on a special event on Wednesday 27th of April. They will be hosting an injury prevention and recovery talk as well as a taster session on how to condition your body for the demands of racquet sports as well as some drills on how to be more efficient on court.

What will you get from this event
1. How to alter your technique to avoid injury
2. Treatments for the common injuries of racquet sports
3. Simple drills to warm up and cool down
4. How to workout in a way that prepares your body for your sport and greatly improves your performance potential.

Spaces are limited and will be reserved in a first come first basis. If you would like to attend or have any questions please contact naomiphysioflexx@gmail.com

Get Results Fitness, Shaun Mcdonald and Physioflexx are looking forward to seeing you there.

Come wearing your sports gear as you will be doing some exercise and playing on court. Starts at 7pm and will finish around 9pm

P.S. We hope to do one at Western soon too so watch this space :-)