MLTC Newsletter 08/08/2024

Newsletter 8st August 2024

JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT 2024 – enter now

This year's Junior Championship Tournament will run from Monday 19th August to Saturday 24th August. Entry closes on 12th August at noon.

Sign up and payment for the tournament is online through Tennis Ireland tournament software and is open for entry from today, The link is:

https://ti.tournamentsoftware.com/tournament/b3f5d6fc-6455-48dd-abeb-6d5c8c6db926

You will need a Tennis Ireland Pin – if you do not already have one you can register for one at

https://www.tennisireland.ie/competitions/players/starting-to-compete

SENIOR Newsletter 1st CHAMPIONSHIPS 16th to 31st August

SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 16th to 31st August 🏆

Captains Declan & Jacqui are delighted to announce that we have a record entry for the club championships 2024.

We have 200 individual members participating with over 350 singles and doubles entries, an increase of 25% on last year.

Thank you to everyone who is participating 👏

We intend to make this a great club championship 💪

This is a large and challenging tournament to run in a club of our size over a 2 week period but we will make it work with your support, co-operation, availability and patience.

Tournament software is open until 6pm this evening for you to confirm your 2 unavailabilities ( if required ) over the course of the tournament.

This is essential in order to plan and schedule 340 matches in this 2 week period.

This is a huge tournament and unlike the handicaps we cannot facilitate ad hoc unavailability changes. We request your co-operation in playing to the schedule as published and which is based on your entry availability details.

Requests for unavailable days will be void once the tournament goes live - a necessity when managing a large tournament of 300+ matches.

We thank you for your co-operation and understanding!

Matches will begin at 6pm each evening. If this is a challenge please advise us now 🙏 and we will schedule your match times accordingly.

As previously advised we will launch the championships with a full schedule on Friday 16th August from 6pm with the focus on ladies and mixed doubles the biggest draws .

It is our intention to publish on Wednesday 14th August the match schedule for Friday 16th August.

We are delighted to see such a large entry and we appreciate your support and co-operation in making this a great championship!

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎾

Declan & Jacqui

LADIES SENIOR LEAGUE O35 1st September

MLTC has 8 teams registered for the senior league from Class 1 to class 6 starting Sunday 1st September .

LADIES OVER 60 LEAGUE 4th September

MLTC plans to.enter one team in the ladies over 60 league with matches on Wednesday at 11am from 4th September .

MEN’S SENIOR LEAGUE (0/35s and 0/45s)

The DLTC men's senior league (doubles tennis with matches played on Sunday morning) will commence in September. Quantum of teams to be registered with the DLTC by 23rd July. The base case for MLTC is that we will register x3 teams akin to 2023 i.e. two teams in the 0/35s section and one team in the 0/45s section. We have until 27 August to nominate the players for these teams. Use the WhatsApp link below if you are interested in signing up as a player or substitute, or call the men's captain (Declan) at 0876305450.

https://chat.whatsapp.com/IJ6cSJJQujLCp8uPh5jMMo

MEN’S OVER 65 LEAGUE

Registration for the DLTC over 65s men's league closes on Tuesday 13th August. Matches will be played on Thursday mornings in September.

MLTC has generally not engaged with this competition in the past.

Let me know if you might like to try a new approach this year - call the men's captain (Declan) at 0876305450 or ping Carol in the office

THURSDAY - CLUB NIGHT

Club night is in action again tonight. Forecast looks dry for the evening so why not come for a hit any time from 8pm, with Stephen in attendance to kick things off!

MEN’S MORNING – Sunday Mornings

Men’s morning will take place this week from 10am to 12. Do come down for a hit and a cuppa and chat after!

JUNIOR CAMPS

ADRIENNE’S CAMP Week 4 : 26th – 28th August

Check for details on Easy Payments, and don’t forget you can book in a friend!

JUNIOR SUPERVISION

Summer Supervision continues…. hours 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm

Please ensure your child is collected promptly at lunchtime 1-2 from supervision.

Don’t forget to book in on Easy Payments (1 week for €10 )

Can parents please ensure that children check in with Karen on arrival and most important that they check out with them when leaving or being collected early.

UPDATE FROM STEPHEN

Exciting to see our own Conor Gannon in the Irish Open - an ITF World Tour event - being held in Carrickmines this week. After the completion of the 1st round, Conor is only one of 2 Irish players still standing in the singles event.

He plays the No 1 seed from Poland in the 1/4 final at 12.30 today... hopefully there'll be a band of Monkstown supporters cheering him on!

He has a doubles match against a GB / Luxembourg combination @ 5 this evening. Very best of luck Conor......we're all rooting for you!

Malahide was the venue for the Junior Open this week with Mary O'Callaghan - Rosie & Richie Kennedy still involved - Mary is playing in the U/16 1/4 Final today & Richie in the U/12 1/4 Final later today.

Rosie has reached the semis of the U/14 & plays tomorrow.

Best of luck to you all!

Donnybrook - a little bit nearer to home! - is the venue next week with no less than 15 of our juniors entered.

"Best of luck" Daniel, Sam, Sean, Harry, Zoe, Rosie, Robyn, Richie, Milo, Annalie, Layla Darragh, Isabella, Mary & Luke!

Just to finish by saying how immensely proud we should all be of Sarah Healy. To be pipped as she was in her heat and repechage race was just heartbeaking for her in what was such a high class field. The immense experience she gained in what has been an amazing Olympics will stand her in good stead for LA in 4 years time...she is still so young & a super athlete.

Cheers Stephen

Carol KellyAugust 8, 2024