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Welcome to the Royal Ascot Tennis Club website

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Here you can find everything you need to know about the club. Use the menus to find the information you need.

Adult refresher / team coaching courses restart

The adult refresher course happens every Saturday morning at 0930, just turn up!  The cost is £5 for members and £7 for non members.

The team players course starts at 1230 and costs £5 for members. As the Winter season is just starting the dates for men and ladies are a little complicated due to the new fixture list.

Men's team courses are 20th and 27th September, 4th and 25th October, 15th and 29th November.  The ladies courses are on 13th September, 11th and 18th October, 1st, 8th and 22nd November.  Just turn up!

Autumn Handicapped Tournament 21st Sept

The autumn tournament will be held on 21st September at 1000.  Sign up on the sheet in the club house.

Mini tennis restarts 13th Sept

Greg will be running the course again as before.  If you would like to receive details please email chairman

Court calendar trial

Below you see the calendar we are building for court usage.  It will contain the courses we are running, league games and club competitions.

If you would like to be notified about adult refresher courses, or the team players course please email chairman to be put on the notification list.

Join British Tennis!

You can find out about membership of British Tennis on the LTA website and join for the first year for free, provided you do so by 31st December here

RATC group on Facebook

Search for the group Royal Ascot Tennis Club on Facebook and join in.  Get automatic invites to club events and join in with your comments and photos.

AGM minutes published

You can read the minutes by following this link

Finals Day Winners

Debra Schmidt - Ladies Champion

Rosemary Anderson and Sue Boakes - Ladies Doubles Champions

Debra Schmidt and Darren Thomas - Mixed Doubles Champions

Jamie Bylett - Boys Champion

Darren Thomas - Mens Champion

Geoff Carson and Andy Gow - Mens Doubles Champions

Action photos from Finals Day

The mens finalists battling it out.

Here's that finals day video!

Visit the RATC BLOG!

What is a blog?  It's short for web log and though it looks like a website it has some exciting features. It contains the latest information about what is happening at the club, and enables you to comment on what is happening and read other people's comments.  You can also subscribe to the blog by scrolling to subscribe to posts(atom) and clicking on that link.  Then you will be notified by your newsreader that there is a new post, otherwise you can visit the blog on a regular basis.

Finally video is available on the site!  See Roger Federer in action in slow motion.  Just click on the video and wait for it to load from YouTube.

Can you help?

There are always things to do to improve this site and to help generally around the club. Please take a few seconds to look at this area under Information and see whether you can offer some help.