Christmas night out - 10th December 2016

Member announcement:

Our annual Christmas dinner will be at Caffe Parma on Saturday 10th December. To sign up all you have to do is pay a deposit direct with staff in restaurant. Max 60 like last year. 

Club News: MUSIC NIGHT in the Members' Bar There will be live music in the Bar Friday 16th September for members and friends. Doors at 730 pm. The club are trying to organise more social events in the newly refurbished bar so please feel free to come along and join us for a drink. This event is free but places are limited so please email geoff.cordwell@me.com to go on the guest list. NEW BAR MENU There is a new bar menu coming THIS WEEK. Great value food especially for members. Ask bar staff for details. SUNDAY MORNING SPECIAL OFFER You can now get a bacon roll and a tea or coffee in the bar for only £5 on Sunday mornings up to 12 pm.

Boiler Room Fitness and Team Western before MOSCOW to HOUSTON Cycle Ride on Sunday 21st August. Raising money for Cancer Support Scotland. Well done to all involved! The sponsorship page can be accessed HERE

Squash News (1): Anyone for ... squash? The ladies teams at Western are looking to recruit more players at Western. If interested in this opportunity, please contact jackfancy@hotmail.com who will arrange to meet up wth you to chat more about the league and perhaps get on court for a try out. Squash News (2): Any junior interested in squash coaching and matchplay opportunities, please fill in an enquiry form HERE

Tennis News (1): SENIOR TENNIS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016 Online entry is now open for the Tennis Club Championships and can be accessed HERE CLOSING DATE: 9th September

Tennis News (2): Hillhead Tennis Club hosted the finals of this event on Saturday 28th August. Pictures can be viewed on the event Facebook page HERE and winners and runners up can be found HERE. A picture of all the finalists is below. Well done to all the Western participants.

Walker Wylie West End Tennis Tournament

Dear Tennis member,

We are writing to invite you to enter the West End Tennis Tournament.

The online closing date is 20th July at 10 am so it would be great if you could enter ON TIME and ON LINE!!

You can enter online here and more content will be added to: http://glasgowwestern.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cee3d74b0a207fcf83d28a235&id=ffa22aadbc&e=07bc46fe77
which also gives a brief synopsis of what we plan to do i.e. run it more flexibly over a month with scheduled ties from the quarters or semi finals onwards (depending on size of the draw).

So although the closing date is 20th July, early ties would be played flexibly over the first 2 - 3 weeks in August with quarters/ semi final ties scheduled in the 10 days or so leading up to Finals Day.

Finals Day will be at HILLHEAD on Saturday 27th August and the scheduled ties from the semis will be at Western and Hillhead. The JUNIOR events will be SCHEDULED and run over the weekend of the 19/20/21 August with Finals Day also on 27th August.

Walker Wylie are a new online estate agency who are kindly sponsoring the event. Information about them can be found here: http://glasgowwestern.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cee3d74b0a207fcf83d28a235&id=8863c0a2f3&e=07bc46fe77

Best wishes,

The Organising Team (Keith/Simon/Julie)

Free buffet and see Murray beat Raonic at the club!

As promised Caffe Parma will be offering a free buffet from 1pm - 1.45pm on Sunday  (for members) in the members bar to celebrate Andy Murray winning Wimbledon for the 2nd time! Maybe not as Raonic is looking good but here's hoping........ This will be a selection of starters and some pizza slices and all you have to do is buy some drinks at the bar! If possible please let me know if coming for the buffet to help the kitchen with an idea of numbers? ian@glasgowwestern.co.uk

Tennis Courts Online Booking System: We are going to launch online booking for the tennis courts in the next few weeks. If you already have a PIN number as a squash player, that will work ok. If you need a PIN to be able to book online, please contact alison@glasgowwestern.co.uk Midgierakers in the Member's Bar! To celebrate the opening of the renovated member's bar, we will be holding an informal Music Night on Friday 22nd July from 8pm. This will feature one of our members, Craig Daly and his band The Midgierakers playing a variety of traditional music (https://www.facebook.com/themidgierakers). Nibbles will be available and entry £5 per person. We’re planning this will be the first of a new series of social events in the bar and it should be a great night. Hope you can join us and please contact geoff.cordwell@me.comor allan.mowat@glasgow.ac.uk for more information   Walker Wylie Glasgow West End Tennis Tournament: Walker Wylie are Glasgow’s new and most exciting Estate Agency. The concept of Walker Wylie was born out of our experience working as Area Directors for one of Scotland’s leading independent Estate Agencies. We understand the advantages of both the high street and online Estate Agents, so have decided to introduce a unique hybrid business model that combines the key aspects of both and provides traditional values with online convenience. And by removing the expensive overheads associated with a high street presence we are able to offer fantastic value with a fixed selling fee of £595 plus VAT and a marketing fee of only £150 plus VAT to advertise your home. We are focused on providing an exclusively “Sales” service to clients throughout Glasgow, with a particular focus on the West End and South Side, where both Company Directors live and work. http://walkerwylie.co.uk For all tournament details click HERE Collect your old racquets A new frame with some old tennis & squash racquets will be displayed on the wall in the members bar this week. If you donated an old bat and it isn't in the display please collect it from the office or let me know that you would like it donated to charity. Many thanks to all who handed in their relics and apologies if yours wasn't chosen to be in the display!

Pilate summer break

Pilates update

Due to holidays there will be no Pilates classes during  July.

Classes will start back Tuesday 2nd August.

         Have a good July everyone and see you in August!

Welcome to the Western News - June 2016

Wimbledon begins on Monday: We are delighted to announce that Wimbledon will be on screen in the member's bar every day from 2 pm. Caffe parma are offering prosecco and strawberries and cream for only £5 throughout the Championships and a FREE buffet on Sunday 10th July if Andy Murray gets to the final so COME ON ANDY!! Tennis Courts Online Booking System: We are going to launch online booking for the tennis courts in the next few weeks. If you already have a PIN number as a squash player, that will work ok. If you need a PIN to be able to book online, please contact alison@glasgowwestern.co.uk Midgierakers in the Member's Bar! To celebrate the opening of the renovated member's bar, we will be holding an informal Music Night on Friday 22nd July from 8pm. This will feature one of our members, Craig Daly and his band The Midgierakers playing a variety of traditional music (https://www.facebook.com/themidgierakers). Nibbles will be available and entry £5 per person. We’re planning this will be the first of a new series of social events in the bar and it should be a great night. Hope you can join us and please contact Geoff Cordwell or Ian Campbell if you want more information.

Walker Wylie Glasgow West End Tennis Tournament: Walker Wylie are Glasgow’s new and most exciting Estate Agency. The concept of Walker Wylie was born out of our experience working as Area Directors for one of Scotland’s leading independent Estate Agencies. We understand the advantages of both the high street and online Estate Agents, so have decided to introduce a unique hybrid business model that combines the key aspects of both and provides traditional values with online convenience. And by removing the expensive overheads associated with a high street presence we are able to offer fantastic value with a fixed selling fee of £595 plus VAT and a marketing fee of only £150 plus VAT to advertise your home. We are focused on providing an exclusively “Sales” service to clients throughout Glasgow, with a particular focus on the West End and South Side, where both Company Directors live and work. http://walkerwylie.co.uk For all tournament details click HERE Currie and Quirk Western Tennis Club Championships 2016: Entries and dates coming soon...

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