Dumfries Sports Club

The Tennis Leagues for February are now on the site here or can be found in the Quick Links in the right hand site column.

The results for the December and January matches are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

BRITISH TENNIS MEMBERSHIP – WIMBLEDON 2011

The amount of tickets allocated to the club for Wimbledon 2011 is based upon the number of club members who have LTA British membership on 31st January 2011.

Accordingly the more people that join the more tickets there will be available for our club ballot.

LTA Membership can be taken up online here ( www.lta.org.uk/Members/Join ) and is free since the Dumfries Lawn Tennis Club (Dumfries LTC) is a registered LTA club.

Thank You.
Tennis Committee

Lister McKiddie, local solicitor and his son, Daniel McKiddie, student at Glasgow University, both of Dumfries Tennis Club, Nunholm, Dumfries have reached the finals of the Family Doubles Championships which is a National Tennis Tournament supported by the Lawn Tennis Association. They travel to Birmingham later this month to play in the Open Father and Son Semi-finals and are hoping to go one stage further and reach the final.

Dumfries Tennis Club at Dumfries Sports Club have recently refurbished artificial grass surface with floodlights, ideal for all ages and standards. The coach at Dumfries Tennis Club is Colin Dunbar who is able to provide coaching for all ages and standards. For more information, call Colin on 07762 624 329. The Tennis Club is part of Dumfries Sports Club which has squash, cricket, hockey and running clubs as well as excellent leisure suite facilities. For more information call Dumfries Sports Club on 01387 252527. Alternatively, visit the website on www.dumfriessportsclub.co.uk/tennis

Dumfries and Galloway Standard

The Tennis Leagues for November are now on the site here or can be found in the Quick Links in the right hand site column.

The results for the October matches are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

Despite losing the final match to Clarkston, Dumfries had done enough by winning their previous three matches to secure the title.

In the previous match Dumfries faced a tricky tie as they travelled to Queens Park (Glasgow) who still had an outside chance of winning the league.

After winning the first match 6-2, 6-0 Dumfries lost their second match 4-6, 6-1, and 10-8 which was their first loss in the league. However this proved to be a small blip as Dumfries powered home with two more wins in the singles 7-6, 6-4 and 6-3, 6-4 which was then followed by two victories in the doubles 7-5, 6-0 and 6-4, 5-7 & 10-5.

With the league title almost secured, Sunday’s trip to Clarkston proved to be an anti-climax as an under strength Dumfries team suffered it’s only defeat of the league campaign. However with convincing wins in their previous three matches it would have taken a whitewash from Clarkston to overturn the Dumfries team’s advantage.

The match itself was evenly contested as both teams recorded two singles victories each and one doubles win each. This had the match tied at 6 points each and therefore a tiebreak shoot-out had to be completed to determine the match winner. Dumfries started the stronger winning the first shoot-out and with a match point in the second game could have sealed the victory but unfortunately they couldn’t convert the opportunity and eventually lost the shoot-out 2-1 which handed the match to Clarkston.

Dumfries can now look forward to next years challenge in Division 3.

The results can be viewed at the “Aegon Team Tennis – Dumfries ” quick link on the right of this page. or by clicking here.

Despite the damp conditions, the second and final home match of the Aegon Team Tennis League went ahead on Sunday. A big thank you to the cricket section for allowing us to borrow some of their kit which allowed us to make the courts playable.

Dumfries fresh from their previous victory entertained Livilands 2 who are from Stirling. With a near faultless performance from Dumfries No1 Colin Dunbar (6-1, 6-0), the match couldn’t have started any better for Dumfries and despite the heavy damp tennis balls the Stirling team never really troubled the home team.

Chris Topping (6-3, 6-3), Lister McKiddie (6-3, 6-2) and Dan McKiddie (6-4, 6-3) also had straight set wins and with Colin & Lister (6-1, 6-2) and Chris and Dan (6-2, 6-3) completing the victory, Dumfries sit top of the league after their two games. They now have two tricky away fixtures to complete the league, the first is away to Queens Park on the 10th with the Clarkston game still to be arranged.

The results can be viewed at the “Aegon Team Tennis – Dumfries” quick link on the right of this page or by clicking here.

The Tennis Leagues for October are now on the site here or can be found in the Quick Links in the right hand site column.

The results for the September matches are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

After a brief period of exile Dumfries Tennis Club once again entered the County leagues with a winning start in their home fixture against Stirling. The match format consists of 4 singles and 2 doubles rubbers.

On the newly rejuvenated courts Dumfries had little trouble overcoming their central belt opponents six nil. Colin Dunbar (6-1, 6-2), Lister McKiddie (6-0, 6-0), Chris Topping (6-0, 6-0) and debutant Dan McKiddie (6-2, 6-2) all had straight set wins with Colin & Lister (6-1, 6-2) and Chris and Dan (6-1, 6-3) completing the victory.

The team have one more home fixture and two away ones to complete the league.

The results can be viewed at the “Aegon Team Tennis – Dumfries” Quick Link on the right of this page or by clicking here .

After a successful five days of rejuvenation work, the tennis courts are now back open for play.

Try them out by booking here.

Dumfries Tennis Club has been invited to enter a team into the AEGON Team Tennis Scotland (Open) 2010 league competition and we have accepted. The match format shall consist of 4 singles and 2 doubles rubbers. The team shall consist of four to six players. Four players shall play one singles rubber each and the 5th and/or 6th player(s) may be selected for the doubles only.

The matches will be scheduled on Sundays starting on Sunday 12th September and concluding on Sunday 10th October 2010.

The winner of the Men’s and Women’s Regional Open Division (i.e. top division) will be eligible for promotion to the National Open Division played in April-June 2011. To follow the teams progress please click on the relevant Quick Link on the website (see right) or follow the link here – AEGON Team Tennis – Dumfries