FREE Tennis in Swindon. Book Here. Saturdays 10-11 at Quarry Road *171725. This is the only Free Parks Tennis currently in Swindon.
Register with the LTA & Book in here. It helps us with an idea of who will be with us. We provide rackets (if needed) & balls.
Brought to you by your Facilitators Peter, Sam & Laura – but looking for more volunteers so we can get a rota of helpers to step in when others are away. Contact us at quarryfpt@gmail.com
Postponements. We’re not quite sure how we will communicate or postpone these sessions in bad weather – but if it’s raining or the courts are slippery or there is no facilitator, we’ll try & work out a way of letting you know
Parking. You can park right outside the courts for 2 hours, so 10 until 12 is ok, but be careful if you move further up the hill past the playing fields. Beyond the “School” sign on the right, there are residents parking restrictions. They do start ticketing after 8am, so that’ll hardly be FREE tennis for you !
History – what have we been getting up to?
- 16-Aug with Sam & Peter: 7
- 23-Aug with Sam & Peter: 5 adults and 1 junior
- 30-Aug
- 6-Sep with Laura & Peter: Piyush & Tiya
- 13-Sep:
- 20-Sep: Sam was there but we had no punters
- 27-Sep: with Peter: (2) Kiran & Durga. Adult beginners looking to get started in tennis. Welcome 🙂
- 4-Oct: with Laura & Peter : Ed (& Luke). That was a windy one. Ed had played a little before & we had our usual service box warm-up, some hints on serving to get that pro-nation going, a bit of competitive Djokovic, a handful of doubles games & of course Dingles.
- 13-Oct: Peter n\a + Court 1 11-12
- 20-Oct: Peter n\a + Court 3 11-12
- 27-Oct:
Where can I play & learn tennis?
Group Beginners Courses advertised at St Marks. Contact our head coach Craig: craig@nationaltennis.org.uk
“Intermediate?” Come along Sundays at St Marks 10-12 just to see how you get on with some social doubles tennis; the Swindon Tennis Club is happy to offer a handful of sessions as a taster before you join. Although we’d love you to join & play with us at St Marks we recognise this is a financial commitment, but there are several membership plans available, and other tennis clubs are out there and Delta Tennis offers pay & play.
Resources Links etc to follow
To do
- FPT at St Marks saw up to 12 players when it was running
- Craig is looking at access to the coaching, but the problem is restricting our access to just FPT
- Generic gmail account as coaches?
- First Aid kit has arrived, but looking for ice packs too.
- Kit storage, maybe in an old town porch
- Cancelling maybe on a facebook page
- Add Laura to membership
- Advertising & poster on site – with QR code to scan for
- Leave the key code when not there – Cl says there is no problem with this.
- Refresh balls as needed understood
- Green dot balls
- What are the red balls for childrens drills
- Quarterly CPD please
- drill database access
- Is this paid – only for one until we get more players
