As everyone at the centre is very well aware the UCI World Championship Cycling event is taking place this week in Harrogate. Whilst this has necessarily impacted the town’s roads and bye-ways there is no preventing HSTC members from getting to the centre to play another wonderful sport. As can[…]
Read moreThe Ladies Singles Championship went ahead last Sunday afternoon despite a slight drizzle. The event was well supported by members who had earlier been enjoying the afternoon’s social tennis session. Carolyn Rothwell was pitched against Ruth Whaling with Carolyn proving to be the winner by a scoreline of 6-4, 6-2.[…]
Read moreSpectators were treated to some great tennis last Saturday when Chris Dight and Andrew Davis played the final match in the Centre’s Men’s Singles Championship. On this occasion Chris had to give way to Andrew who won by 7-6 (7-5), 6-2. The score in the first set demonstrates the closeness[…]
Read moreTHANKS TO ALL THE MEN’S TEAM PLAYERS. With a win last Sunday (1st Sep) against ‘Wetherby 2’ by 10 – 2 which has given them promotion in second place from Division 4 to Division 3 (pictured below). This is a great win because it continues the success of the men’s[…]
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Due to the weather forecast the Mixed Doubles first team played their final fixture in the indoor courts at the David Lloyd Club (pictured below) and despite winning the match just failed to get promotion to Division 3. The HSTC team finished in third place in the Division 4 table[…]
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The 2019 HSTC Ladies Doubles club championship was held on Sunday morning, 28th. It was a round robin format and very enjoyable and friendly. The winners were announced and the HSTC Ladies Doubles Silver Plate was awarded. But there had been a glitch in the scoring and after a recount[…]
Read moreSunday 11th August saw the next event in the Centre’s series of internal ‘club’ championships. Today it was the turn of the Men’s Doubles. Well done to Jonathan Guiritan / David James who won today over seven rounds of five games. Pictured below are the players who took part, including a couple[…]
Read moreThe winners of the Centre’s mixed doubles club championships this year were Carolyn Rothwell & Ian Charters. The photo shows them being presented with their trophy by Andrew Davis. They won on a deciding point in the final at 4-4 v Pam Dight and Henry Brogatzski. It was a lovely[…]
Read moreHaving been away on holiday for a while the reporting of the team’s progress has been absent. I can address that by updating you in this segment, so here goes: The Mixed Doubles 1st Team has had some, well, mixed results (no pun intended – but it’s nice isn’t it!).[…]
Read moreThe ‘A’ team came off second best last night in a match against local club Almscliffe ‘A’. It was a very close match with only 2 games (53 – 55) separating the teams. Whilst that is disappointing on the surface it should be remembered that this is the first year[…]
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