Tennis Tayside Annual Report
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Tennis Tayside Annual Report 2011 CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 President’s Report (Colin Allison) ........................................................................................................................... 2 Tennis Development Managers Report (Kirsty McRae, Tennis Scotland) .............................................................. 4 Secretaries Report (Joy Mayglothling) .................................................................................................................... 6 Annual Accounts (Robert Paulton and Alan Nairn) ......................................................................................... 7 Inter District Competition (Jane Morrison)............................................................................................................ 9 Tayside Mini Tennis Finale (Jane Morrison) ........................................................................................................... 9 Tayside Open Results Summary: 2011 (Mike Aitken) .......................................................................................... 10 Tayside Junior Confined (Bill Duff) ....................................................................................................................... 11 Centenary Cup 2011 (Joy Mayglothling) ............................................................................................................ 11 Winter 2010-11 League Results (Colin Allison) .................................................................................................... 12 Ladies League Results (Morag Bull) .................................................................................................................... 14 Mens League Results (Colin Allison) ..................................................................................................................... 15 Junior League Results (Bill Duff) .......................................................................................................................... 17 Henderson Vase Results (Morag Bull) .................................................................................................................. 20 INTRODUCTION Tennis Tayside is one of the nine Districts1 within Tennis Scotland, which in turn is part of the LTA. For some tournaments Tennis Tayside combines with three other districts – Central, North East and Highlands - to form the North of Scotland County team. Tennis Tayside has 32 affiliated clubs covering a large geographical area. In the table below © indicates that a club has achieved Tennis Clubmark status. Anstruther Kirriemuir Arbroath Letham Blairgowrie © Lundin Sports Club Broughty Ferry Maulesbank Craigie Tennis Centre Montrose © Craigmuir Newport Crieff Hydro © David Lloyd Dundee © Darnhall NWTS David Lloyd, Dundee © Perth © Duffus Pittenweem Dunkeld and Birnam Scone © Falkland St Andrews © Games Club Tayport Glenfarg University of St Andrews Kinnoull © West End © Kinross Wormit © Tennis Tayside promotes the sport within the District by: organising Men’s, Ladies’, Mixed Doubles and Junior leagues organising Winter Senior and Junior indoor leagues organising U8, U9 and U10 red, orange and green mini-tennis tournaments encouraging and supporting links between clubs, schools and local authorities supporting LTA and Tennis Scotland initiatives including Clubmark and British Tennis Membership working with the North of Scotland Tennis Development Manager organising junior performance coaching squads and teams for tournaments representing its affiliated clubs on the Council of Tennis Scotland encouraging and supporting coaching development maintaining a web site at www.tennistayside.org 1 The other Districts are: Tennis Central, North-East, Highlands, Tennis Ayrshire, Tennis Borders, Tennis Dumfries & Galloway, East of Scotland, West of Scotland. 1 Tennis Tayside is a non-profit making company Limited by Guarantee and governed by its Articles of Association and Company Memorandum. The 2010/11 Tennis Tayside Board is shown below. President, Men’s and Winter leagues secretary Colin Allison Vice President and Junior League secretary Bill Duff Secretary (from April 2011) Joy Mayglothling Treasurer Robert Paulton Corporate Governance Alan Nairn Tournament and Clubmark liaison, Tennis Scotland Councillor Ian Conway Tennis Scotland Councillor Douglas Gibson Board member Rhona Alston Board member Ann Hill Board member Malcolm Logan Board Member David Bateman Board Member Elaine Hunter PRESIDENT’S REPORT (COLIN ALLISON) It’s been another great year for tennis in Tayside with record numbers of teams and players entering the leagues and tournaments. A new confined junior tournament was started and schools competitions are growing in popularity. There are four new clubs in the District – St Andrews University, Letham, Craigie and Dundee University. In addition three more clubs have attained Clubmark, and many more are working actively towards it. Dundee Tennis Initiative The Dundee initiative was started over 18 months ago, with a view to stimulate tennis development in the District’s largest population centre. 2 This long term initiative is going well, with a Dundee Tennis Working group now in place involving Active Schools, Sports Development, the Dundee clubs and Sport Tayside and Fife. A Tennis Action Plan for the City has been produced by the working group, co-ordinated by the Sports Development Unit. This continues to evolve. Copies are available from Tennis Tayside or the Sports Development Unit. An embryonic city tennis club has been in place since June, based at Dundee University’s all weather courts. Active Schools have organised local sports students to deliver tennis to all the primary schools in Dundee and a tennis competition was organised at the University courts in June. Special thanks to Craig Blythe, Kris Brash, Kirsty McRae, Ian Conway and Andy Thompson for building the momentum and keeping it going. There are still major challenges of course, including the lack of any clubs in the north of the city, the very poor condition of the six free public access tennis facilities and the need for more L2 and L3 coaches to be regularly involved in tennis development in the city. Rhona Alston – LTA Volunteer of the Year Rhona Alston (Montrose Tennis Club and Tayside Board member) was invited to the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals last November 2010, held at The O2 arena, London, where she was awarded the prestigious LTA volunteer of the year award. The British tennis Volunteer Awards are aimed at recognising those volunteers who devote much of their time to tennis; from working behind the scenes as a committee member to organising local leagues and building relationships to positively promote the sport. The LTA recognise a volunteer from each of the regions / nations: the East, South East, South West, Midlands, North, Scotland and Wales. Well done and well deserved! Treasurer Stands Down Robert Paulton, Tayside’s long standing treasurer is standing down after many, many years of diligent service, dating back to the Midlands era. We thank Robert for his dedication and wish him well with his numerous other activities. LTA and Tennis Scotland constitutional changes Although a major change occurred this year in the move from “per head” to “per court” affiliation scheme (which resulted in most clubs paying considerably less to register as an LTA “Place to Play”), more major changes are in the pipeline. The LTA and in turn Tennis Scotland have been revising their constitutions with the result that the District, and all the Clubs will have to revise their constitutions to align them with the new national tennis governance structure. Alan Nairn from Tennis Tayside has been very pro-active in helping Tennis Scotland and Tennis Tayside with these complex changes, for which we are extremely grateful. Most Clubs will be contacted in the near future, with notification of what the changes involve. One solution is to adopt a standard constitution supplied by the LTA, and then tailor it where needed for a particular club. A further major change in the pipeline is the prospect of “regionalisation” within Scotland. At present Tennis Scotland’s members are the nine districts (see footnote on page 2). There is an enormous disparity across the size and resources of these districts. For example, East and West, based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, have the largest numbers of clubs and players and employ full time staff to help with tennis development and competition administration. Tayside is the third largest 3 and does not employ any full time staff. At the other end of the spectrum some of the Districts are relatively small and poorly resourced, and are understandably not as active in tennis development. Under the new scheme there would be three regions in Scotland: East, West and North. Tayside clubs, North East clubs and Highlands clubs would become members of the North region; Central, East and Borders clubs would become members of East region; Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway and West districts’ clubs would join the West region. Tennis Scotland believe this will be a more effective structure for managing and developing the sport in Scotland and attracting a fairer share of Sports Scotland resources. In the short term it is expected that per-court affiliation fees currently payable to the District would be paid to the new North region;