Dumfries Sports Club

Dumfries Tennis Club is set to beat the winter weather by moving indoors.

The Nunholm club have booked Max High Academy sports hall to run a pilot scheme of mini-tennis red & orange classes in the run-up to Christmas.

Starting on Saturday, October 22 and running for seven weeks, classes will take place from 9am to 10am and then from 10am to 11am.

The club is also working closely with the local Active Schools team, with a view to holding more mini tennis classes from January to March.

The new initiative comes after Dumfries Tennis Club and Tennis Coach Colin Dunbar looked at ways to try and increase tennis participation.

Sadly, Dumfries & Galloway is one of only a few areas in Scotland which doesn’t have any indoor tennis courts. This new indoor initiative being piloted by the Dumfries Club is the first step in what is hopefully the starting point to raising the games profile in the region with the ultimate desire to create an indoor facility for Dumfries & Galloway.

Having the chance to deliver coaching sessions indoors during the winter months, allows the children to continue developing their tennis and helps them to participate in our sport all year round.

For further details or to book a place, visit the Dumfries Tennis Club website at www.dumfriessportsclub.co.uk/tennis or email tennis@dumfriessportsclub.co.uk or download the indoor flyer here.

Dumfries Tennis Club recently held their Club Championship Finals. With 10 Senior Titles and 7 Junior Titles up for grabs it promised to be an exciting day and it didn’t disappoint.

Play started at 10am with the first junior title at stake, with play commencing on the other 3 courts at 10.30am.

The men’s singles final was viewed as “the big one” with Colin Dunbar defending the title that he has won for the last 3 years against the previous winner and club stalwart Lister McKiddie.

With Colin starting as favourite he quickly got into his stride and took the first set but Lister upset the form book and comfortably took the second, to take the match to a deciding 3rd set. Lister continued on fine form into the third set with an early break of serve and the large crowd watching thought an upset was on the cards. However, Colin regained his composure to just edge the match 2-1 in sets to make it 4 singles titles in a row.

In the Ladies final, defending champion 15yrs old Sophie Robinson regained her title beating Rebecca Topping 2 sets to nil.

On the day Colin won 3 titles, Sophie won 4 and Barbara McCubbin gained 3. The winners on the day were:

Men’s Open singles – Colin Dunbar;
Men’s Handicap singles – Mike McEwen;
Men’s Open Doubles – C Dunbar & Chris Topping;
Men’s Handicap Doubles – Raymond Kirk & Michael Goldie;
Ladies Open singles – S Robinson;
Ladies Handicap singles – B McCubbin;
Ladies Open Doubles – R Topping & Sarah Kirk;
Ladies Handicap Doubles – S Kirk & B McCubbin;
Mixed Open Doubles – C Dunbar & S Robinson;
Mixed Handicap Doubles – Steven Forsyth & B McCubbin.

The Junior winners were:

U18s Doubles – Ben McKiddie & S Robinson;
U18s singles – Duncan Muir;
U16s singles – S Robinson;
U14s singles – Ian Robinson;
U12s Doubles – Mitchell Cowie & Ruairidh McRoberts,;
U12s singles – Ruairidh McRoberts

and last but not least is the U10s singles winner Adam Kirk, who regained the title for the 3rd year in a row. Congratulations to all the winners.

Dumfries Tennis Club along with new coach Richie Cunningham will be offering adult coaching sessions for an 8 week period. Run on Tuesdays and starting on the 6th September these classes are suitable for Beginners, intermediates or Rusty Rackets with both ladies and gents welcome.

Sessions start at 6pm and run for an hour. To book please either email tennis@dumfriessportsclub.co.uk or call Michael on 07734073397. The cost per session is £3 for members of the club and £4 for non-members for a limited time.

Individual lessons are available for both adult and junior players, to book use the same details and one of our coaches will be in touch.

See Dumfries Tennis Coaching 2011

Dumfries Tennis Club has become the first tennis club in the area to receive the prestigious “Accredited Sports Club” status which means that Dumfries & Galloway Council have approved and supports the tennis programmes that we deliver on court and the policies and procedures that we have in place off court.

The Council believes that achieving high standards in these areas is crucial in ensuring that your club is managed effectively and that we provide a safe environment for junior members to enjoy and play tennis. Achieving Accreditation shows that our Club programmes, policies and procedures are all in line with best practice.

All the relevant documents will be placed on the Sports Club website as soon as.

Despite the changing weather conditions Dumfries Tennis Club held two successful week-long tennis summer camps last week, with the final week-long camp taking place this week.

Over 40 children have improved their tennis skills as well as enjoying fun coaching sessions with head coach Colin Dunbar.

Tennis coaching continues throughout the year and is open to non-members for a trial basis. Contact Dumfries Tennis Club for more details at tennis@dumfriessportsclub.co.uk or visit our website www.dumfriessportsclub.co.uk/tennis