All has been done and dusted now. The sun was out for us on what was a beautiful day. 34 sets were played over the course of the day, with Simon Guist doing the ladder and cup double by prevailing in the final over our men’s captain Thibaut, but not without a fight! Chris McLaughlin from SRC Newry made impressive movement through the draw by knocking out the new captain Steven Smyth! In the ladies after many hard-fought rounds Claire Thompson beat the ‘club sweetheart’ Mairead Kelly.

Finally we capped off the evening with some fine food at the boat club, a quiz and a raffle which Mairead Kelly also walked away with, congratulations mairead! Thanks for everyones participation and we look forward to next year!

Click on ‘Intervarsity’ or here to see the full results (also photos should be up on the bebo soon).

The committee for the academic season 2008/09 was chosen today at the AGM and the positions are as follows: -

{executive}
Men’s Captain: Steven Smyth
Ladies Captain: Mary-Louise Boyle
Secretary: Aidan Malone
Treasurer: James Spencer
{non-executive}
Social Chair: Naomi Hughes
{non-committee roles}
Deputy Secretary: Mairead Kelly
Deputy Treasurer: Brendan Wright
Intervarsity Co-Ordinator: Chris Scorah
Webmaster: David Smith

So congratulations guys, you selection is a reflection of your dedication to the club and we know you’ll do a great job next year!

Congratulations to Simon, Mary-Louise and Brendan our QUB Ladder winners. Their prizes are free member to the club next season so well done! There was a massive 60 ladder matches played this season which is great and you can view all there result by clicking here. The order of merit is listed below

Mens Winner: Simon Guist
Ladies Winner: Mary-Louise Boyle
Intermediate Winner: Brendan Wright

Our annual general meeting will be this week at 4pm after tennis on Wednesday at the boat club. Here will be a quick review of the year, plans for the future, and most importantly nominating the new committee into being. Click here to see details of each job so you can have a think who would be good for each position, or even if you would like to be on the committee yourself (looks great on a CV!). Absolutely anyone can nominate and be nominated.

Adavcned squad training is cancelled today due to a lack of available players. It has now been moved to Monday, and monday nights for the forseeable future. The captain of forthriver has thanked us for participating with them and they have really enjoyed the tennis but they have asked if we could contribute £2-3 each toward the cost of the floodlights and courts from now on. Also those wishing to join forthriver full time should do so soon and make use of the cheap as chips student membership at £20!

Brendan Wright recommends tennis.com for any questions you have about tennis or any tips you need for your own game. It’s got some pretty cool videos to help. So click here check out http://www.tennis.com

A few opportunities have arisen for budding tennis students

1/ There is an all week singles & doubles tournament being hosted in Larne on 1st - 5th May. It’s quite a popular tournament, so if you#re interested please email asap to get some enty forms.

2/ There has been an email from a tennis coaching facility in america that is trying to recruit coaches for their summer camp. You can earn over 500 quid and you get to spend some quality time in the states. For more information, read the full email we received here 

3/ Queen’s Club Stella Artois Championship are in need for stewards for the Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Quite a lot of top stars turn out to this event, and you may get a chance to properly meet some of them as the environment is a little bit more intimate than queen’s. If you’re interested why not apply at http://www.artoischampionships.com/1/home/default.asp 

The first advanced squad training session is tomorrow night at forthriver. We are meeting at 7pm at the union and are hoping to have enough lifts to get there. It will be a great chance to play with some good players, and discuss ideas for the future. Maybe head out afterwards. An update about how it went will follow.

We have progressed in fixing the problem that internet explorer seems to have with our website, so all those ie users out there I hope you get a better idea of what the website should actually look like!  Thanks goes to David Lowry for his tireless efforts in fixing it. We would still recommend Mozilla Firefox to view it best (or Safari for mac users). To download Firefox click here

Welcome back everybody. Here’s a quick run down of what’s happening on our first week back in the last part of term

Monday 7th - 7pm: Monday night tennis, matches only
Wednesday 9th - 1:30pm Wednesday tennis, coaching; 9pm: House party 44 Tates avenue
Thursday 10th - 7pm: First advanced squad training session

Don’t forget to keep challenging on the ladder. And visit the forum by clicking here.
Hope you come to something!