Men's Class One Summer League 2011 Final Result

History was made on Saturday, 25^th June with Castleknock winning the DLTC Summer League Class One event for the first time.

 

The team on the day was:

Singles

James Magee

Shane la Porte

John Rendina

Doubles

Liam Byrne & Fergus O’Connell

Neil Ryan & Connor Schelling-Tisza

Other members of the 1^st Team Squad are Fiachra Lennon, David Spollen, Laurence Doyle and Gavin GIlhawley who missed the final due to holidays.

Subs used were Richard Foley and Laurent la Forge.

It was a team effort and I would like to thank all the players who played their part in this historic event. The results show it was not a close match as Greystones were short one or two of their top players - but you can only beat what’s in front of you on the day.

Liam Byrne and Fergus O’Connell won the first doubles very comfortably 6/0 6/2 followed by Shane la Porte 6/2 6/0 and then John Rendina 6/0 6/2. So, the result was 3-0 for the history books.

I would like also to give a special thanks to James Magee for making the effort to make the long journey back from the ATP Tour in Morocco to play for his club. Thanks to David Spollen who was captain last year and got us out of Class 2 and into Class 1. However, the biggest thanks has to go to John Rendina the captain of the this year’s team  as he is the one who pushed the hardest this year to get the team ready to play in Class 1.

Next year we move into the Premier League and who knows what we might achieve with this squad of players captained by John Rendina.

Shay Dolan

Men’s Captain

Ladies Class Three Summer League 2011 Final Result

Our Ladies 2^nd Team went down to the wire in their Class 3 Summer League Final against Swords 1^st on Saturday, 25^th June in their attempt to bring the cup home, but sadly it wasn’t to be!

With the matches poised at 2-all, the last match on court went to a nail-biting tie-break in the 3^rd set. Unfortunately, for Castleknock we lost the tie-break and the final. By such tight margins are winners and runners-up defined.

It is a great achievement to get to a final. In this case it took 8 matches to reach it. So, the team are winners in the club’s eyes and have brought another pennant back to be hung with pride.

The team on the day was:

Singles:

Audrey Duffy

Elizabeth Hunt (Capt) 

Sorcha Raoof

Doubles:

Susie Kelly & Mary Mulherin

Deirdre Bennett & Lana Rosenberha

And a special thanks to the 3 Subs - Ciara Quinn, Deirdre Gogan and Claudie Fitzgerald who helped the team on the road to the final.

Also, a most sincere thanks to the supporters the team had from the quarterfinals in Templeogue, to the semis at home, and to the finals in Clontarf, Thanks so much, it means a lot!

Deirdre Bennett

Ladies Captain

Ladies Class Three Summer League 2011 Final

The Class Three Summer League Final between
Castleknock LTC and Swords LTC
will take place on next Saturday, 25th June.
The time is 3:00pm and the venue is Clontarf LTC.

The Castleknock team will feature
Deirdre Bennett, Audrey Duffy, Elizabeth Hunt (Captain), Susie Kelly, Mary Mulherin, Sorcha Raoof and Lana Rosenberha.

COME, SUPPORT AND WATCH GREAT TENNIS!

Men's Class One Summer League 2011 Final

The Class One Summer League Final between
Castleknock LTC and Greystones LTC
will take place on next Saturday, 25th June.
The time is 1:30pm and the venue is Clontarf LTC.

The Castleknock team will feature current Davis Cup player James Magee and International players such as John Rendina (Captain) and Shane la Porte.

Other squad members include Liam Byrne, Laurence Doyle, Gavin Gilhawley, Fiachra Lennon, Fergus O'Connell, Neil Ryan and David Spollen.

COME, SUPPORT AND WATCH GREAT TENNIS!

Mens' Summer Wednesday Nights

Owing to popular demand, Mens Wednesday Night Tennis will continue in a limited capacity throughout the Summer.

John Naughton, aided and abetted by the Mens Summer Wednesday Night Tennis Organising Committee, will be organising.

Please note: the size of this title in no way represents the size of the Organising Committee!!!

There will be one session at 8pm (20.00hrs).

The Number of Places will vary each week as they will be limited to court capacity because of Leagues, New Lights on Court 1,2,3 etc.

A Sign-On Sheet (Mens Summer Wednesday Nights) can be found under the section on the right-hand-side of the web-page, entitled Sign-On Sheets.

Sign-On will take place between Saturday and Tuesday each week.

Use John’s mobile number 087-259 3066 for emergencies.

Men's Class 1 - Summer League

MENS CLASS 1 - SUMMER LEAGUE

Castleknock LTC v Monkstown LTC

Date:                  Wednesday, 8^th June

Venue:                Castleknock LTC

Time:                  7:30pm

Ø  Important Match for Admission to Class 1 Final

Ø  Features Top 600 ATP Ranked and Current and Past Davis Cup Players

“PLEASE COME, SUPPORT AND WATCH SOME TOP TENNIS”

Team Captain                                             Club Captain

John Rendina                              Shay Dolan