
Sandycove Tennis and Squash Club provides a friendly club dedicated
to promoting the social and the skill side of both tennis and
squash. We do this with good facilities, good players, good coaches
and good craic.
We have 6 all-weather omni tennis courts, a mini-tennis court,
2 squash courts, a bar, pool table/table tennis table along with
excellent changing facilities.
Our tennis teams range from Class 1 to Class 7, normally having
8 mens and ladies teams participating in the Summer Leagues. We
also participate strongly in Floodlight, Winter, Senior, Ladies
Charity, 5 Mile, Blue & Gold and Easter Cup leagues. We also
have a very active internal league in which we currently have
90+ men and 80+ ladies taking part in the singles events with
all of our league/non-league players playing plus many more in
the doubles and mixed events.
We firmly believe in playing matches alongside the coaching/training
programmes. As you can see we have many activities throughout
the year in our Club. These are explained further below:
Some of the activities we provide for the Juniors are:
- Club Afternoons - Each Friday afternoon. U10's 4-5pm
Over 10's 5-6pm. Fun Games, matches, drinks etc.
- Pizza Nights - Each Month on a Friday/Saturday with different
age groups involved.
- Friendly League Matches - Anybody who is on the ladder
will get chosen to play these. Sign up on ladder to play.
- Competitive League Matches - DLTC/External Leagues throughout
the year.
- Round Robins - Each coaching group receives a round robin
sheet to play against others from their group.
- Ladders - These are the rankings for the juniors in U12,
U14 and U17 age groups.
- Outside Tournaments - The juniors play against juniors
from various clubs in open tournaments.
- Junior Handicaps - In July. Each junior is given a handicap
based on their ability to give an even playing field.
- Junior Championships - In August. Our juniors compete
against eachother to see who can finish top of their age group.
- Easter Camps - Fun camps over the easter holidays U10's
and Over 10's.
- Free Summer Programme - Free programme from end of June
to end of August, play fun games, different sports & matches.
- Junior Coaching - Takes place for 28 to 30 weeks of the
year in 3 terms from 5/6yr olds to 18yr olds.
Some of the activities we provide for the Seniors are:
- Club Nights - Each Monday evening from 7.30pm to 10pm.
- Ladies Morning - Each Wednesday morning from 9am to 11am.
- Internal Round Robins - Runs from October to end of April,
in exciting competitive format.
- Steakout Nights - Friday Nights in intervals throughout
the year.
- Team Tennis - Monday Nights which replaces Club night
in intervals throughout the year.
- Senior Handicaps - In July. Each junior is given a handicap
based on their ability to give an even playing field.
- Senior Championships - In August. Our seniors/juniors
compete against eachother to see who can be club champion.
- Bernie's Piano Bar - Every few months on a Friday evening,
the talented musicians of our club take part in a musical evening.
- DLTC/External Leagues - DLTC Senior, Floodlight, Winter
and Summer, Easter Cup, 5 Mile, Blue & Gold and Charity Leagues.
- Adult Coaching - Morning & Evening group/private
coaching along with different Clinics i.e Serve Clinic, Volley
Clinic.
- Other Social Nights - Paddy's Night, Christmas Show,
Turkey Tournament.
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