Gates
If you are first to arrive and unlock the external gates, please secure the combination lock to the larger right-hand gate, resetting the combination lock so the open combination it is not visible.
Dress Code
Members are expected to wear appropriate clothing and must wear suitable tennis shoes that are fit for purpose on court.
Matchplay
Inter club league matches etc. have priority followed by Club Tournament matches followed by Social Sessions.
Use of Courts outside Social Sessions
Members can arrange fours or singles outside Social Sessions, but if there are more members wanting to play than available courts, members must allow other members to play, once they have completed a set.
Junior Sessions
During the periods set aside for organised junior and mini play and coaching, vehicles must not enter the Club grounds.
Practice Wall
The practice wall must not be used if a match is in progress on Courts 1, 2 and 3.
Social Sessions:
- Singles games are not to be played during these sessions if all courts are in use and/or there are members waiting and ready to make up a four.
- Do not play more than one set before mixing in if members are waiting to play.
- Sets are to be played up to 6 all; a Tie Break should not be played if members are waiting to play.
- Members are expected to include all other members attending at Social Sessions.
- Juniors may use the courts during Social Sessions if there are courts available. Adult members have the right to ask Juniors politely to vacate a court, if no courts are available, on completion of the game in the set that they are playing.
- The Club provides [3] balls per Court for social play.
- Use the far gates to enter the courts if members are already playing on courts 1 or 4 to avoid disrupting their game.
- Do not encroach upon an adjacent court to retrieve a ball while a point is being played on the adjacent court.
- On completion of a point, please pass a ball back accurately to the server rather than aimlessly to the fence behind.
- Do not take drinks glasses or cups on to the courts, only plastic drinks containers are permitted. Place drinks at the net, not at an end of a court.
- If you have finished your set and no other members are waiting to play, please take the balls off the court when you leave and retrieve any balls that have been knocked over the fence. If the balls are wet, please place them on top of the radiator to dry – do not leave wet balls in the tins.
- Mobile Phones. Please have consideration for others. Unless you are expecting an urgent call, either switch your mobile off, or put it on silent, and avoid the temptation to check it every time you change ends.
Please ensure everyone is included and made to feel welcome
Floodlights
Switch off floodlights if they are no longer needed.
Clubhouse
Use the Clubhouse responsibly, keeping the kitchen clean, ensuring the oven is switched off after use.
Ball games should not be played in the Clubhouse.
Do not adjust the radiators as they are set on a timer.
Wipe muddy feet on the mat by the door and not on the carpet and wipe off anything you spill on the carpet.
If you are the last one to leave please switch off all lights including the hallway, changing rooms and floodlights. Ensure that all internal doors are closed and where appropriate locked and that the clubhouse is locked (with the latch off) and the gates secured with the padlock.
Health and Safety
Make yourself familiar with the siting of:
- All fire extinguishers
- The First Aid Box
- The Defibrillator
CLTC Committee – March 2020