Your Committee.Knutsford Tennis Club is run by its Committee. These are members that volunteer their time to provide tennis at the club. There are a number of roles, and they meet monthly to discuss how the club is run, making sure that members are able to benefit from excellent tennis facilities and playing opportunities. Each year there is an AGM, where members can come and hear what's been going on, and where the committee is selected.
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A Short History...
Knutsford Sports Club has had a tennis section since 1931 - the same year that GB ladies won the doubles final at Wimbledon (well done Dorothy Shepard-Barron and Phyllis Mudford), and GB narrowly lost to France in the final of that year’s Davis Cup!
Its playing facilities have grown from 2 x grass courts, to the present 7 all year round, synthetic grass, floodlit courts.
Recent years have seen continuous development of the clubs facilities going hand in hand with some amazing and entertaining fund raising, including a 24 hour Tennis-A-Thon, 2 x Great Knutsford Tennis Bake Offs, 2 x Colour Runs and a myriad of individual member organised events, in addition we’ve achieved grants from the LTA, Inspired Facilities, Cheshire East Council, Knutsford Town Council, Manchester Airport and Knutsford Sports Club. A second Tennisathon took place in June 2018 and raised over £10,000 towards the Junior Courts.
Thanks to these tremendous fund raising activities the club has an active and engaged membership and has been able to install floodlighting to all 7 courts (2011), do a major dig out and refurbishment of our middle 3 courts (2015), re-carpeted our top two courts (2016) and now has it’s sights set on re-carpeting our bottom two Junior Courts.
Its playing facilities have grown from 2 x grass courts, to the present 7 all year round, synthetic grass, floodlit courts.
Recent years have seen continuous development of the clubs facilities going hand in hand with some amazing and entertaining fund raising, including a 24 hour Tennis-A-Thon, 2 x Great Knutsford Tennis Bake Offs, 2 x Colour Runs and a myriad of individual member organised events, in addition we’ve achieved grants from the LTA, Inspired Facilities, Cheshire East Council, Knutsford Town Council, Manchester Airport and Knutsford Sports Club. A second Tennisathon took place in June 2018 and raised over £10,000 towards the Junior Courts.
Thanks to these tremendous fund raising activities the club has an active and engaged membership and has been able to install floodlighting to all 7 courts (2011), do a major dig out and refurbishment of our middle 3 courts (2015), re-carpeted our top two courts (2016) and now has it’s sights set on re-carpeting our bottom two Junior Courts.
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