All4One Autumn 2022

club captain

Since the last magazine dropped into your in-box your club has been busy raising money for an Ambulance for the Ukraine, completing various sporting seasons, enjoying the catering from our club caterers Dough and Brew as well as all the usual daily activities that you the members participate in. The club staff have been heavily involved in the build up to the 24 hour tennis event making sure all the places were filled and encouraging people to raise as much sponsor money as possible. The magnificent end result was some £14,000! A huge success. John Martin who runs Dough

and Brew is providing the most delicious food for everyone and has catered for several socials and wakes.

Very sadly a few very precious members have passed away recently as well as our beloved Queen.

There has been some great successes in all our sporting sections which I`m confident a representative from each section will include in this edition.

The weather is slowly changing as the Summer months draw to a close. We have had some glorious sunshine over the last few weeks and I`m hoping, as I`m sure

Disability Tennis

The

Friday morning sessions with the students from Evergreen School in Warwick, have recommenced following the summer holidays.

We have been able to secure funding from several sources including King Henry VIII Fund and Warwick Relief in Need that will guarantee the project continues at least until the end of 2023.

The students get enormous benefit from playing tennis and all can make progress irrespective of their personal capabilities.

It’s been a rewarding experience for the volunteers and coach, Cameron Malik too

you are, that over the next few cooler weeks we can all continue enjoying our club and our chosen sport.

Libby

Libby Newman. Club Captain captain@warwickboatclub.co.uk

Forthcoming survey

Volunteers needed!

There are some weeks where we are a bit short on volunteers and we’d be grateful for a few more members to get involved. All sections can join in, and no particular tennis skills are needed. We’ll ‘show you the ropes’. If you’d like to give it a go please contact Graham Harringtongraham.harrington@live.co.uk or 07702 435534

club is always interested in your thoughts on improvements that can be made to your WBC experience. We appreciate that people are asked to give feedback on everything they buy but we’d be grateful for you to complete the forthcoming ‘survey monkey’ that will be sent out in October. Not only will it help the management team to deliver a great service but will give us year on year statistics on progress (or otherwise).

The

Editor: Graham Harrington

Designed by Yvonne Harrington

Bowls bulletin

Warwick Town Triples Tournament

OnSunday,21st August, Warwick Boat Club hosted the finals of their annual Warwick Town Triples competition at the club. Sixteen local teams from within the Warwick district had entered and after some fiercely contested games throughout the season, only four triples now remained. The two semi final matches were played at the start of the day with a team from Warwick Boat Club drawn in each, against Avenue and Snitterfield respectively.

The Warwick Boat Club team of Diane Harvey, Peter Boardman and Mary Wheildon, the current trophy holders, were up against a formidable triple of Richard Freeston and David and Debbie Bloxham. Despite strong play from the WBC team they were no match for the strength of the Snitterfield trio who ran out winners, knocking out the champions 20 shots to 5.

In the second semi final, The Avenue team of Dawn and Paul Chapman and skip Barry Connolly started strongly against the other Warwick Boat Club team of Jacqui Ashley,

Chris Hurst and skip, David Hurst and were soon 8 shots ahead after 12 ends. But undeterred, the WBC team came back strongly to level the match 14 shots all going in to the final end. This was a tense finish with the umpire having to be called to measure for shot before Warwick Boat Club were declared the winners.

After lunch had been enjoyed by players and spectators, the two remaining teams took to the green for the final. Both teams made a steady start and were level after 3 ends. However, Snitterfield took 6 shots on the fourth end and continued to capitalise on this by winning seven of the next eight ends taking their score to 196 after thirteen ends. Despite a late rally from Warwick Boat Club, increasing their score to 12 shots, Snitterfield held on to become the eventual winners 20 shots to 12.

The Mayor of Warwick, Mr Parminder Singh Birdi, joined the club captain and guests for afternoon tea before presenting the prizes to the finalists and the trophy to the Champions, Snitterfield. The day was declared

a resounding success by all who attended and thanks were expressed to the organizing committee for their hard work.

Warwickshire County Finals Day

Saturday 13th August 2022

National Lawn Bowls Finals 2022

After

what had been a couple of weeks of unusual conditions where temperatures had at times approached 40ºC, all competitors knew it was going to be difficult playing conditions at Stratford Bowling Club who were this years hosts of the County Finals Weekend. The Ladies Triples Final was between Caroline Edwards, Anita Cowdrill and Tracey Turner-Smith (Royal Leamington Spa) playing our own Boat Club Ladies and last years winners, Jacqui Ashley, Chris Hurst and Mary Wheildon. The teams were fairly evenly matched for most of the game 11 all on 11 ends when WBC started to pull away and led 16-11 at the 13th end but RLS dug deep and managed to turn the tables to win by two shots 20-18.

The afternoon featured the Junior Pairs between Ellie Hurst (Warwick Boat Club) with Hannah Smith (Welford) and Lily-Mae Adams with Emily Kernick (both Sherwood Park). Again they were fairly evenly matched with Ellie and Hannah leading by one shot at 10 ends 11-10, after a gripping second half of the match with some great bowling from the youngsters Lily-Mae and Emily pulled back to win by just 1 shot on the last end winning 15-16.

Ellie Hurst and Hannah Smith runners-up in the Warwickshire Junior Pairs

Assummer drew to a close, the eyes of the bowls world were once again falling on Royal Leamington Spa for the prestigious Bowls England National Finals. This festival of sport is the culmination of a player or teams efforts over the previous five months. Leamington Spa Bowls club fresh from hosting the Lawn Bowls competition at the Commonwealth Games just a few weeks before –and provides the stage for 18 days of fierce competition. The first day was Thursday 25th August and saw Jacqui Ashley, Mary Wheildon and Chris Hurst from Warwick Boat Club representing Warwickshire for the second year in a row in the Ladies Triples. They were drawn against a very strong Surrey Triple the Warwickshire girls had a lot of support from fellow bowlers from the Boat Club and gave there very best against a very confident and skillful Surrey team, Surrey won on the day 22:10

Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls in the limelight

The Commonwealth Games is the premier event in World Bowls and for ten days in early August 227 competitors from 24 countries entered teams and competed across 11 events for the medals at Royal Leamington spa as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Bowls has been part of the Commonwealth Games since the inaugural event in 1930 (then called the British Empire Games held in Hamilton Canada)

Six representatives from the Boat Club volunteered at the Victoria Park venue. Chris Hurst, Di Wood and Ken Butler were field of play volunteers and were seen a few times on the TV coverage sitting at the ends of the rinks turning scoreboards. Dave Hurst, Christopher Mordaunt and Trisha Macfarlane were ‘flash quote reporters’ interviewing competitors straight after their matches and supplying quotes for the Games News Service.

The ten sunny days of competition drew excellent crowd providing a wonderful atmosphere that those who were

Christopher, Trisha, Chrissy and Dave

there will never forget. To quote Amy Pharaoh the silver medalist from Lincolnshire who won her medal in the ladies pairs beaten by the Australian pair with the last bowl

talking oarsome

World Rowing Masters Regatta,

Libourne 2022

ASeptember saw a large number of Warwick rowers head to Libourne in France for the World Masters Regatta. This is an annual event that takes place in a different corner of the world every year and is open to clubs and competitors from all over the world. The events are split by boat and age categories into races of up to 8 crews and are rowed over a 1000m multi-lane regatta course. Needless to say that the standard of rowing is extremely high with ex-olympic and world-level athletes fighting it out for 1st place. Libourne welcomed over 4000 competitors from 50 different nations, of which 29 came all the way from Warwick.

The racing started on Wednesday 7th September, with strong performances from 3 of Warwick crews, with the highlight being a very close 2nd place for Steve Sidaway and Graham Giles in a double scull event. This was a good taster of what was to come, as both got first places later in the week. Steve Sidaway won the E1x event on the Friday, whereas Graham Giles teamed up with an ex-Warwick rower from Abingdon Sam Mercer to win the C2x event on the Saturday. Huge congratulations go to all three - you really made Warwick proud.

Other notable performances have been the Women’s D8+ that saw a few women return to rowing this year and race for their first time after a long break, brilliantly coxed by Sam Wesley and crossing the line in 3rd place. Another successful composite crew made up of Warwick and Bristol rowers came 3rd in the D4x event - not a bad result for their first outing considering they had never trained in that combination before! A special mention goes to Liz McEvoy for racing in a single scull in a WC1x event - a special moment for her as she raced it in honour of her coach in Australia, achieving both her goals of not capsizing and not coming last!!

Sunday saw mixed racing, with crews made up of 50:50 men/women. Mixed rowing is quite unusual in the world of rowing, so tends to be more informal, fun and with more scratch crews. Highlights were seeing David Tarbun race in an eight after many years’ away from rowing, a Warwick MixC4x gaining a 3rd place, and finally Sam Wesley and Graham Giles crossing the finish line 2nd to complete the racing for Warwick, much to the applause and cheering from all of our squads.

Overall, this was a fantastic week for Warwick, with all the hard training paying off,

inspiration for future goals found, and lots of memories made. Big thanks go to Jon Martin and Simon Beard for towing the boats to and from the venue, to Kate Rider for organising us and our equipment throughout the week, and to David Tarbun for taking on a volunteering role at the event.

Based on the performance over the week of racing, Warwick Boat Club has scored 171 points, placing us 4th out of the 30 British clubs that attended the event and 15th in the World! This is a huge achievement for Warwick, which wouldn’t be possible without all the hard work of our athletes, coaches and volunteers.

Tanya Podinovskaia

All photos by Yana Vinogradova

Barbara and Tanya

Warwick Masters Squad team photo at the end of the week

Full Results for Warwick:

Wednesday 7th September

E4+ Andy, Chris S, Jon, Simon, cox Tanya 7th

WB4x Polly, Barbara, Sarah, Kerstin 7th

D2x Steve, Graham 2nd (only 0.7 second behind 1st!)

Thursday 8th September

WA4+ Barbara, Sarah, Kerstin, Polly, cox Tanya 7th

D1x Graham 6th

D1x Steve 4th

WC1x Liz 6th

G4x Chris M, Mike, Martin, Ken 6th

E4x Andy, Chris S, Jon, Simon 7th

Friday 9th September

WD8o Esther, Deirdre, Haidee, Kate H, Kater R, Tanya, Alicia, Hayley, cox Sam W 3rd

E1x Steve 1st (WIN!!!)

WB4+ Barbara, Sarah, Kerstin, Polly, cox Tanya 6th

WE2x Yana, Hilary 5th

E4 Andy, Chris S, Jon, Simon 7th

WB2x Kerstin, Polly 8th (only 0.01 second behind 7th!)

Saturday 10th September

D4x Jon, Steve, composite with Bristol 3rd

C2x Graham, Sam M 1st (WIN!!!)

WC2x Sam W, Hayley 6th

WC2x Ruth, Liz 6th

WD4x Yana, Hilary, Ruth, Liz 5th

WE4+ Esther, Kate H, Deirdre, Haidee, cox Sam W 6th

Sunday 11th September

MixD2x Kerstin, Simon 7th

MixC8o Polly, Kerstin, Barbara, Sarah, composite with Spain, cox Tanya 4th

MixE8o Deirdre, Esther, Kate H, Haidee, Chris M, Mike, Ken, David T, cox Tanya 5th

MixC4x Graham, Sam M, Hayley, Sam W 3rd

MixD4x Ruth, Liz, Steve S, Andy S 7th

MixE4x Yana, Hilary, Chris S, Jon M 7th

MixC2x Sam W, Graham G 2nd

WD4x women’s quad powering down the race course

Esther and Jon soaking in the atmosphere

E4- men’s four on the race course

Warwick cheering on their crew mates in between their own races

Steve Sidaway winning E1x single sculls

squash & Racketball

Group squash supports Ambulance Aid

On Saturday 3rd September, the courts were buzzing!

On3rd September while the 24-hour Tennis-a-Thon was taking place, 14 squash players turned out to support the club’s fundraiser for Ambulance Aid. We took over both courts, turned up the music and got stuck in to drills and games. Even DeDe the labrador came along to support and enjoyed chasing her ball afterwards while the rest of us had a drink in the garden.Group coaching takes place every Saturday between 4pm and 6pm. If you haven’t already tried it, just come along when you can. It’s the perfect opportunity to get on court with players of all ages, levels and abilities.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or a pro – JP finds a way for everyone to get involved, plus you’re running around, having fun and getting fit for two hours. What’s not to like?

Warwickshire Squash

Stars comes to the Boat Club

Warwickshire

Squash Stars is a fantastic initiative set up to introduce 5-11 year olds to squash. It’s not just about ball skills, it’s designed to get youngsters working in a group and making new friends, as well as improving their agility, speed and co-ordination.

We’re now one of the county’s clubs participating in Squash Stars and it’s already increased our junior numbers.

just £30, each child gets:

squash

KARAKAL

Stars t-shirt and drawstring bag.

It’s great value for money and could spark a lifelong interest in one of the best sports in the world!

Sign up at www.warwickshiresquash.org/squash-stars.

team news

Autumn marks the start of the squash leagues

The WBC squash teams are getting ready for the start of the leagues again. Want to get involved? Our team captains, Jess Linford and Graeme Mascall are always on the lookout for good players who’d like to take part. Matches take place on a Wednesday evening and food is usually provided afterwards.

Contact Jess on 07443 431445, Graeme on 07734 456050 or join the WBC Squash Section WhatsApp group for updates.

Mixed ability squash has arrived!

We’re

running two mixed ability squash sessions at the club – between 12 and 2pm on Saturday 12th and Saturday 19th November.

“Hopefully this is just the start of mixed ability squash at Warwick Boat Club,” says JP. “Squash is one of those sports where everyone thinks you have to be super fit or really experienced, but anyone can play and have a lot of fun doing it. I’m on the lookout for more sponsorship because I’d like to continue running these sessions and give everyone the chance to try it out for themselves.”

It’s guaranteed to be a lot of fun so spread the word. All ages and abilities are welcomed.

Commonwealth Games 2022

The squash update

Both of our coaches, Alison and JP, indulged their all-consuming passion for the sport and volunteered for the duration of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Alison was courtside and could clearly be seen at times wiping the floor to make sure the courts were safe for play. JP was a ‘Have a Go’ volunteer at the Squash Zone where more than 2,000 members of the public played on the mini-court, set up outside the

main courts to promote the game.

He also enjoyed meeting some of the star players who got into the spirit of things and turned up to give us lesser mortals a ‘game’ or two. Even the mighty Jahangir Khan, former World No. 1 player from Pakistan, arrived for a knockabout!

“It was an amazing seven days,” says JP.

“The mini-court was open for play from 10am to 9pm every day and people were queuing up to join in! We also spent a lot of

time promoting local Midlands clubs and the Warwickshire Squash Stars programme which we’ve now signed up for at WBC – and we welcomed Perry the Bull, the CWG mascot. What an experience!”

Squash Girls Can

Two British women, Sarah-Jane Perry from Kenilworth and Georgina Kennedy won Bronze and Gold medals respectively in the Women’s Singles with SJ also taking Silver in the Doubles.

Hollie Naughton who took Silver in the Women’s Singles on the podium with Georgina and SJ.

JP with Paul Coll from New Zealand who took Gold in the Men’s Singles and Mixed Doubles. He lives and trains in Birmingham.

Sarah-Jane Perry, Bronze and Silver medal winner in this year’s Commonwealth Games, gets on the minicourt with Max Peak.

Ambulance Aid

24 HOUR TENNIS -

Game, Set, Match!

£10 - 12,000 target smashedWBC to send an Ambulance to Ukraine!

Weplayed through sunshine and showers, day and night, for the 24 hour TennisAThon on September 3-4. Undeterred by forces of nature or the floodlight blip! The Bowls section also ran a well attended event on the Saturday.

We were treated to delicious Ukrainian honey cake, and regaled with the lyrical sounds of Mark Pritchard - Jeffs (co-founder of Ambulance Aid). Members and family alike enjoyed sampling our new Dough and Brew café’s BBQ and pizza van.

The magnificent amount raised to date was announced at a well attended presentation at the club on Saturday. Over 50 members were present for the big reveal…

Local dignitaries gave presentations for outstanding members’ contributions: Warwick and Leamington MP - Matt Western, the High Sheriff of Warwickshire - David Kelham, Lord Lieutenant - Tim Cox, and Councillor Jan Matecki of Warwick District Council.

So how much did we raise? Our original ambitious target was £10-12K - enough to purchase an ambulance for Ukraine. To date, our grand total across both events, together with the Fashion Show earlier in the summer, is about £14,000 and still rising! What a fabulous achievement, guys! – massive kudos to all 84 members who took part and to all their wonderful sponsors.

Awards for special contributions including some original Ukrainian artwork:

Guardian Angel Angelo Cugini, for magnificent services in repairing ambulances

Most money raised Steve Larke

Hard-core Charlotte Littler and Steve Larke, whose teams kept the ball rolling overnight!

Marketing genius Graham & Yvonne Harrington, for excellence in comms

Entertainment Mark Pritchard-Jeffs for solo guitar

Supportive staff Laura Mackay, Susie Rowe & Carey McLean – we couldn’t have done it without you!

Diplomatic relations Max Browning & Steve Chidlow for liaising with our neighbours

Photography Steve Chidlow at TennisAThon

Dressage Amanda Ray for decorating courts

Mary Berry Sally Key for Ukrainian family who made the delicious honey cake

Winner of Sunflower Seeds guess Nigel Bradnack (closest answer 1800 seeds)

The money raised will be donated to Ambulance Aid to buy an ambulance. WBC members will be invited to write messages of support to Ukraine before it leaves. Already Ambulance Aid has fundraised to send 7 ambulances and 1 SUV to Ukraine. Created in March 2022 in Stratford, as a not for profit charity, it is run by volunteers.

Working in partnership with Medical Aid Ukraine (MAU), the ambulances are filled with medical aid. Dr Tania Hebert is the West

Midlands Coordinator for MAU. Dr Hebert spoke eloquently about the Ukraine war and its continuing devastating impact on families.

Ambulance Aid Director, Claudine Pearson, thanked WBC & reminded us of a quote by our late Queen, “On our own, we cannot end wars or wipe out injustice, but the cumulative impact of thousands of small acts of goodness can be bigger than we imagine.”

Jan Matecki and High Sheriff, David Kelham

“We appeal to all groups to fundraise, to buy their own ambulance and join our convoy! Support can be given to other clubs, businesses, schools and villages to fundraise.”

Ukrainian cake was served as a thank you for all. It had been made by Dr Hebert’s mother and grandmother. Sunflowers decorating the club were kindly given by Lodge Farm Sunflowers who have donated to the cause.

Tania Hebert said; “So far in Ukraine since 24th February the WHO has confirmed over 500 attacks on healthcare facilities. It’s shocking. I am Ukrainian-born but have grown up in the UK and now as a doctor, I feel guilty that I am not helping more, that I’m not in Ukraine caring for the injured.

But seeing British people like the dedication of the team in Warwick Boat Club coming together, fundraising and playing tennis for 24 hours straight for this cause is humbling and moves me to tears. We can all achieve so much if we join with others for a common goal.”

How to Help?

• Donations are welcomed via JustGiving https://www.justgiving.com/ crowdfunding/warwickboatclub?utm_ term=K336wgnDm

• Volunteers are needed for a huge variety of roles. Please contact ambulanceaid.ukraine@gmail.com

• Also, medical supplies needed from public & healthcare settings, plus generators, field & emergency equipment medicalaidukraine.westmidlands@ gmail.com

A big thank you to everyone who played, donated or supported this noble cause, and to all who continue to do so!

Rosie Riley

Laura Mackay and Leamington MP, Matt Western

Graham Harrington

Amanda Ray

Steve Larke

Nils Pedersen

Nigel Bradnock

Libby Newman Rosie Riley

And some of the many players......

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Junior Performance programme

The performance programme is split into 3 levels (PREformance, Performance & PROformance) across 14U, 16U and 18U Squads.

The PREformance Squads are aimed towards higher level club players that look to play a minimum of twice a week.

The Performance Squads are aimed towards regular competitors of the game with high aspirations.

The PROformance Academy Squads are aimed towards the highest level competition players including adults which have high aspirations.

JUNIOR PERFORMANCE PLAYER ACHIEVEMENTS

2 UK University / US College Placements

• Alex Rintoul (University of Lynchburg, Virginia, US)

• Harry Lazell (University of Bath, UK)

13 County Players: *Maiden Year*

• Alex Rintoul, Will Barnes, Harrison HartBuck & Aryan Mehta (Warwickshire 18U)

• Ryan Stinton & Monty Thompson (Northamptonshire 18U)

• Ottelia Tetley (Oxfordshire 18U)

• Holly Jaques & Holly-Grace Ashford (Warwickshire 18U)

• Marina Webb (Hereford & Worcestershire 18U)

• Kit Todd, Isabella Andriotis & Harleen Sethi (Warwickshire 10U)

2022 Tournaments - 35 Titles + 34 Finals:

• Alex Rintoul: 1 Final

• Rowan Butler: 1 Title

• Ryan Stinton: 11 Titles + 5 Finals

• Holly-Grace Ashford: 2 Titles + 3 Finals

• Monty Thompson: 1 Title + 2 Finals

• Will Barnes: 1 Final

• Ottelia Tetley: 7 Titles + 6 Finals

• Marina Webb: 3 Titles + 1 Final

• Harrison Hart-Buck: 4 Titles + 7 Finals

• Aryan Mehta: 2 Titles + 2 Finals

• Ellie Buttimore: 1 Title + 2 Finals

• Kit Todd: 2 Titles + 4 Finals

Ryan Stinton, who has represented WBC in the mens first team, and is a regular volunteer for the disability tennis group Monty Thompson

Will Barnes Harrison Hart-Buck

Team Talk

Iampleased to report that we have had another cracking season in the Coventry and District summer league. The first team, captained by Cameron Malik, took the Premier Division by storm again, winning by a clear margin of 8 points; they have topped the Premier Division since 2018. Gez McVeigh led the second team in another superb year, finishing fourth in the second division with younger players coming up through the teams into the top tier. Pete Walker’s 3rd team cemented their position in Division 1, with an excellent bronze medal in third place. The 4th team, driven forward by Jon Browning, secured promotion for the third consecutive year and will play in Division 2 next season. Our 5th team, marshalled by Adam Saumtally, secured promotion from Division 5 with a creditworthy silver medal.

Thanks must go to all of the captains for their teamwork and support. It’s been a successful summer season with lots of participation across all levels and some excellent tennis and great camaraderie; we are looking forward to start ing mens team winter practice on Tuesday 11th Oct at 7pm. Please let me know if you have not played team tennis at the boat club before and you would like to have a go.

Robert Pocknell

Congratulations to the Men’s First Team for winning the Coventry League for the third year in a row. Of even greater significance is retaining our position in the National League, one of only eight team in the whole of the UK. Players for 2023 include Mason Recci, Cameron Malik, Marcus Willis and Aaron Trainer.

Final results from the summer league are detailed below.

Coventry and Warwickshire summer league

Mens 1 Premier division winners!

Mens 2 4th in premier Mens 3 3rd in division 1

Mens 4 2nd in division 3 so promoted

Mens 5 2nd in division 5 so promoted

National league:

Mens 1 staying in national

Mens 2 Promoted to regional

Mens 3 – 4th in div 2

Ladies 1 staying in regional Ladies 2 likely demoted to county Mixed open finished second in the league

The Ladies Team prizes were presented on Saturday 3rd Sept.

Thank you to Warwick Sports who sponsored the trophies & vouchers for our winners! We are looking forward to adding more categories for next season!

Well done to all our prize winners:

Most Committed player: Vicky Ward

Most improved player: Marina Webb

Best Young Player: Ellie Buttimore

Best Newcomer: Holly-Grace Ashford

Tie Break Titan: Jessica Bramley

Best Player: Ottelia Tetley

WBC female team members other achievements:

Junior members’ successes: Ellie Buttimore & Aryan Mehta came 3rd in their U14 County Champs XD –well done!

Holly Grace Ashford was runner up the in the U18 Singles & U18 Doubles finals during Warwickshire County week –who then went on

Juniors

U18 boys 3rd in division 1

U16 boys 5th in division 1

U14 boys 3rd in division 1

U16 girls top of division 1

U9 mixed bottom of div 1

U8 mixed bottom of division 1

Seniors

W50 losing draw in the 2nd round

W60 lost in round 2

W65 lost in the quarter finals

W70 into the quarter finals – yet to play

M35 conceded a walkover

Mens 45 loss in round 1

M55 lost in round 1

Junior mixed

into the quarter finals – yet to play

Senior mixed lost in 1st round

The winter league matches have now started with only a few matches having been played for each team so not a lot to report on yet.

to compete in the Road to Wimbledon & won her doubles – Really well done!

Ottelia Tetley plays for Oxfordshire County & won the U16 Mixed Doubles & U18 Girls Doubles trophy during their county week, she then went on to be chosen from over 400+ to be a ball girl at this year’s Laver Cup at the 02 in London!

Other WBC female team members County achievements:

Kara Biggs: Represented Warwickshire in Summer County Cup Week in Manchester Emma Hubbard: Represented Warwickshire at the O35 County Week in Eastbourne

Helen Simpson: celebrated being part of the 040 Warwickshire County Team

Viv Spencer & Jetta Cowan: celebrated being part of the O55 Warwickshire County Team

Sarah Tolliday & Marianne MacLeod: celebrated playing in the successful O60 Warwickshire County Team

Jane Robbins: celebrated being part of the O65 Warwickshire County Team

Jenny Waggot, Jackie Robinson, Susie Rowe, Anna Potts & Jacky Sadler played in the Warwickshire County 70 & then played the semi-final of the National Inter Clubs O70

Isobel Ollis, Liz Graham & Margot Rawdon played in the 075 Warwickshire County Team

Jenny Waggot won the National grass court O75 doubles with Fran Maclellan

HOT OFF THE PRESS:

Warwick Boat Club welcomes top female doubles player Soumeya Anane. We arevery excited to have her join our lovely club!

At the start of the summer season, Warwick Boat Club Ladies Captain Marianne MacLeod & Team Tennis Representative Charlotte Taylor decided to ‘set goals’ for our ladies teams & we nearly achieved this! Everyone worked to together to achieved some fantastic results! We’re certainly looking forward to 2023!

LADIES RESULTS

Premier Division

WBC 1 – Finished in Second place! Captain – Charlotte Taylor

Division 1 WBC 2 – Finished in Second place! So promoted into the Premier Division for next season.

Captain – Sarah Tolliday Division 1 WBC 3 – finished in 3rd place!

Captain – Viv Spencer

Division 3 WBC 4 – finished in 2nd place, so promoted into Division 2 for next season! Joint Captains – Angela Truman & Tracey Rigby

Division 3 WBC 5 – Finished in 8th place, so sadly relegated back into Division 4 for 2023

Captain – Sue Hawkesford & Vice Maxine Browning

The men’s first team had their strongest season to date in the LTA National League, finishing 2nd in the Midlands Division (Top 8 in UK) gaining qualification into the national final play-offs. Unfortunately they were unable to earn their place in the finals. The team captained by Cameron Malik included himself, Arran Trainor, Daniel Dean, Reuben Newman-Billington, Jack Smith and Ryan Stinton. The WBC men’s first team is consistently proving to be the best performing team in Warwickshire and of any outdoor venue in the UK.

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Autumn Group Coaching

Rusty Racquets for beginners/players returning to tennis.

Saturdays 12 noon and 1pm.

Contact Carey McClean or Richard Napier.

Monday evenings from 31 October 6.00pm Improvers

Amazing result! Promotion secured for the 2nd team, next year in the regional division. Really well done all that played their part this season... Ryan Stinton, George Morley, Yoan Tsonev, Pieter Uys-Barnard, Andy Davidson, Alex Rintoul, Gavin Henderson and Monty Thompson! Big thanks for Andy captaining the team this season. We will be one of the very few clubs in the UK with two teams in the National and Regional divisions! We areone of only three other clubs (Roehampton, Cumberland & Winchester) to have two teams in the national/regional divisions for men. Some achievement!

7.00pm Intermediate/topend mix-in standard Wednesday evenings from 2 November 7.00pm Intermediate, as above.

Mondays and Wednesdays are 6 week courses costing £48 (£8 per session).

Contact Gavin Henderson

Our coaching team

(in no particular order)

Gavin Henderson Tennis manager/ Development programme

Cameron Malik Performance and disability coaching

Mason Recci Hitting partner. Mason (pictured right) has a current ATP world ranking of 1828. He is shortly going to Greece to play two ranking tournaments in Heraklion, Crete Steve Haywood Mini Red Funsho Ajibade Juniors

Richard Napier Rusty Racquets

Harry Green Saturday mornings Jackie Robinson Daytime coaching Jenny Waggott Coaching legend!

Soumeya Anane (pictured right) recently joined our team and has a WTA ranking high of 600

Marcus on the road!

Marcus Willis has had a strong start returning to the World Tour, picking up ranking points in all 5 tournaments played so far including two quarter finals, one semi final, one final and a victory in Madrid, going from unranked to 730 on the ATP world leaderboard and is currently ranked 33rd in the UK.

Marcus is training before heading back to France, with some more ranking points to play for, not far off being able to enter ATP challenger events!

Marcus’ results so far, and partners that he’s played with:

JULY

Roehampton 25,000

Grass court quarter finalist (partner Mark Whitehouse)

Daytime coaching run by Jenny Waggott and Jackie Robinson

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings during school term time.

Various sessions available - please contact Jenny or Jackie.

Full contact details are on the club website

AUGUST Nottingham 25,000

Grass court Semi finalist (partner Dan Cox)

August Roehampton 25,000

Hard court finalist (partner Dan Cox)

SEPTEMBER

5th September Bagneres-De-Bigorre 25,000 + H Runners Up (partner James MacKinlay)

12th September Madrid 25,000 Hard court champions (partner Scott Duncan)

Doubles ranking. 730 ATP and number 33 In GBR.

UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS: October France 25k/ Sunderland 25k/ Glasgow 25k/ France 25k

November Sharm el Sheikh 25s + county cup!

Soumeya Anane

Mason Recci

Arran, Jack, Cam & Reuben

Marcus with hitting partner, Luke Simkiss

Otellia at the o2

InJune this year Roger Federer released a video on social media inviting applicants between the ages of 12 and 16 to come to trials to be a ball kid for the Laver Cup. Ottelia applied and was invited to a 90 minute trial at the Olympic Park in London, on the weekend when numerous trials were run. At each one approximately 100 boys and girls were put through their paces, running, doing exercises, catching, throwing etc - all under the watchful eye of the assessors.

With such a large number of applicants the chance of being successful was slim so Ottelia was absolutely delighted when she received an email confirming she had been successful, one of only 12 girls and 24 ball kids. Over the next few months there were training sessions, each one back in London and 4 hours long, teaching them how to be ball kids. They all came from different backgrounds, were different ages but what they all had in common was tennis.

The weekend of the actual Laver Cup was an absolutely amazing experience for Ottelia, starting with practice day on the Thursday when the big four (Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray) were all on court together for the first and only time (66 Grand Slams on one court at one time!). The next three days of the actual event was hard work, long days but brilliant fun. The kids worked in teams of six and had set positions. Ottelia was a centre - responsible for running the net. Ottelia met some tennis greats including Dyokovic, Murray and Federer but her absolute favourite player was Tiafoe. She was on court for Federer’s last ever match and picked up the very last ball hit after Team World won the Laver Cup. Overall it was an amazing experience for Ottelia, inspirational and inspiring, she wishes she could do it all over again.

Banbury Road planting programme

The shrubs and trees are now maturing as was envisaged. Thanks again to David Howells and his team for all their work,

Wimbledon Tickets

Ifyou’d be interested to get Wimbledon tickets for the 2023 tournament you should go to www.wimbledon.com.

To receive information on the ballot, please join myWIMBLEDON, or login and ensure you have selected you are interested in Tickets and Ballots in your Consent and Preferences area.

Volunteers for Committees

Itis always good to have new people getting involved in helping to run the club. Perhaps you have a particular skill or strength that could be used. Some of our committee positions are elected but many are just volunteers doing their bit. If you have the time, skills or inclination please approach your sport captain- https://www.warwickboatclub.co.uk/ wbc-committee

In particular we are looking for people to join the social committee. Contact Libby Newmanlibbynewman53@ hotmail.com Also, the marketing team is seeking someone to lead on social media. Contact Graham Harringtongraham.harrington@live.co.uk.

TENNIS Court upgrade from Gary Sharp

Three courts, (8/9/10), are to be upgraded to the new digital lights in late October, there should be very minimal disruption.

Fencing on courts 5/8/9/10/ is to be replaced in late November. This will create disruption for a three week period, but we will try and manage this as best as we can, to ease any inconvenience.

Paul always works hard to keep the courts up to scratch. New nets have been installed. The damaged score boards are a challenge as the cost of replacement is very expensive, but we arelooking at options.

Referral winners

Thank you to all those members who referred friends and family to the club during the year. Our membership has remained at healthy levels for all of our sections.

You may recall the club ran a special offer to enter referring members into a draw. The winners were;

First prize, a £100 voucher for Warwick Sports, goes to Tors Moffett for referring Christophe Gailly de Taurines in May 2022.

Second prize, £50 of WBC vouchers, goes to Zoe Sullivan for referring Stuart Denton in August 2022.