Monkstown Tennis & Croquet Club.
(The following has being provided by Club Coach, Joanne Williamson.)
Monkstown is known for its picturesque landscape and its connection to sailing but tucked away up the hill from the local National School lies a dainty little tennis and croquet club.
With three artificial grass courts and a neat homestyle club house, you couldn't help but fall in love with this club! Having recently received planning permission for a fourth court, building is set to commence in late Autumn.
The junior coaching program coordinated by Donal Neary and myself, is run on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoons and caters for ages from 4 years and upwards with teens classes taking place over the weekend. The sessions at present with restrictions due to Covid guidelines, has over 100 players taking part.
Membership boasts over 300 in the form of family, couple, single and juniors, and a lovely tennis community feel runs through the club whose beautiful grounds are maintained by Cork legend Vere Ludgate. Court bookings are booked online and four days in advance with slots of a perfect 75 minutes available from 6pm onwards.
The junior program returns at last on Tuesday 27th April and will be followed once doubles is allowed by the extremely popular, men’s Vets doubles on Tuesday/Thursday evenings and a Sunday morning all organised by John Barry. Wednesday nights club night will start back in a few weeks and the annual cross-river competition versus the rivals in Rushbrooke LTC is a hugely anticipated event each year and hopefully will be held in 2021!
Having four club approved, licenced coaches available for private and group sessions along with the introduction of Cardio tennis in the future, Monkstown tennis club, small as it may be, certainly packs a punch!
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