Every month the TSA website will be shining the spotlight on a different tennis club in South Africa. The featured club for October is Wembley Tennis Club in Port Elizabeth. Do you want your club to be featured? Send an e-mail to [email protected] with more details about your club and we could select you for November!
October's Club of the Month: Wembley Tennis Club (PE).
Based in Mill Park in PE, Wembley is one of the most vibrant tennis clubs in the Eastern Cape - renowned for a fun and friendly atmosphere, both on and off the court. Wembley's mission is to be a family friendly club and are dedicated to providing and maintaining quality tennis oriented facilities and bringing tennis to their local community!
Wembley currently has approximately 80 active members and some of the programmes they have rolled out include:
- Club open days
- Club fun days
- A play & go initiative
- Annual men's and ladies tournaments
- An annual club golf day
- Club championships
- A Tuesday boys tennis club
Meanwhile one of the most recent innovations the club has introduced is an online database and court booking system, details of which may be viewed at http://www.clubsystem.org/PHP/login-form.php?idclub=115.
Finally - Wembley are currently in the process of developing an initiative for long term junior development to uplift the players of Motherwell Tennis Club over the next three years.
Further details about the club can be obtained from their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/wembleytennisclubpe/.