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Catherine and Lewis Fletcher Honoured In Deaf Sports Personality of the Year Awards
Wiltshire’s Catherine and Lewis Fletcher have multiple reasons to celebrate at the end of a difficult 2020 after members of the Great Britain Deaf Tennis Team were voted winners in a record three categories in the Deaf Sport Personality of the Year (DSPY) Awards. Catherine was voted Coach of the Year for the first time,…
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Wiltshire’s Lewis Fletcher takes tally of National Titles to 17 at 2020 National Deaf Tennis Championships
Ramsbury TC and County Coach, Lewis Fletcher, took his personal tally of National Deaf Tennis Championships titles to 17 at the end of September after claiming his ninth men’s doubles title and his sixth mixed doubles title at the 2020 event organised by the LTA at the National Tennis Centre in London. Lewis, partnered East…
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LTA Home Activities Hub
The LTA have created a tennis at home activities hub with lots of fun exercises and activities for all the family. You can improve your tennis skills any time, any place, with the LTA Home Activities hub. The LTA Home Activities hub consists of four areas – Tennis at Home Exercises – short videos containing…
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Wiltshire Tennis Activity Book
We have developed a fun Tennis Activity Book for the children to complete whilst they are spending time at home. It has lots of fun activities with mazes, colouring in, quizzes and lots more! Please click here for the first edition. In addition, please do follow our social media pages listed below to see challenges that…
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Louise Hunt Wheelchair Tennis News
Louise Hunt from Wanborough, plays and competes in Wheelchair Tennis and in 2012 competed in her first Paralympic Games in London. Louise also competed in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, qualifying at her highest ever ranking to date of 10 in the World. Louise has kindly agreed to write us some news from her tennis…
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2019 Wiltshire Tennis Award Winners
Wiltshire Tennis are delighted to announce the local heroes who are honoured as part of the LTA Tennis Awards in Wiltshire. The Awards were presented by Sir Geoffrey Owen, Wiltshire Tennis President, at the Wiltshire Tennis AGM earlier this month. The LTA Tennis Awards 2019: The winners now go through to a regional judging panel…
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Lewis claims 2 silver medals as Great Britain’s deaf tennis stars claim five medals at 2nd World Deaf Tennis Championships in Antalya
Lewis Fletcher from Ramsbury TC gained 2 silver medals in the senior men’s doubles and mixed doubles finals at the 2nd World Deaf Tennis Championships in Turkey. Great Britain players completed the Championships with a tremendous haul of five medals across senior and junior events, including the gold medal in the junior mixed doubles on…
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Lewis through to two finals as Great Britain’s deaf tennis stars earn unprecedented World Championships success in Antalya
Great Britain’s deaf tennis players are assured of unprecedented success at the 2nd World Deaf Tennis Championships, with a squad of four players selected by the LTA set to play for six medals, including at least two silver medals, over the course of the next two days in Antalya, Turkey.  Lewis Fletcher from Ramsbury,  Esah…
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Lewis In the GB squad for World Deaf Tennis Championships
The LTA, the governing body for tennis in Britain, has announced the four players who will represent Great Britain at the second ever World Deaf Tennis Championships in Turkey later this week. Taking place from 12th – 19th October in Antalya, Turkey, the Championships will see players from 18 countries battling it out across singles,…
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Ralph celebrates his 93rd Birthday
Ralph Harding from Devizes celebrated his 93rd birthday at Devizes Tennis Club surrounded by his friends who he plays tennis with on a Monday afternoon every week. Ralph manages to play for half an hour in all weathers and his friends say that he is marvellous to be able to play at the age of…
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WILTSHIRE’S LEWIS FLETCHER CELEBRATES 14TH NATIONAL DEAF TENNIS TITLE
Great Bedwyn’s Lewis Fletcher is celebrating taking his collection of National titles to 14 over the weekend after he won both the men’s and mixed doubles competitions at the 2019 National Deaf Tennis Championships at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. Fletcher, 34, a two-time men’s singles National champion, chose to focus on the doubles…
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2019 Junior County Champs
William and Gigi are Triple Trophy Winners Over 100 players from across the County participated in The 2019 Wiltshire Tennis Junior County Championships which was held at Pewsey Tennis Club and The Delta Tennis Centre. The Tournament started indoors at the Delta Tennis Centre for the 8 & Under and 9 & Under events and…
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MINI RED FUN TEAM FESTIVAL
The annual Mini Red Team Tennis Festival at the Delta Tennis Centre was a great success. The event as always was well attended with 16 teams of 4 players competing from across Wiltshire. The young players are tested throughout the day with a tennis quiz, serving, rallying and skills test plus so fun team doubles…
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Lane wins a Gold and Bronze Medal at Chesterfield
Lane Stow had an amazing tournament at Chesterfield and won a Gold Medal in his singles event and bronze in his doubles. Lane won all his 3 tough singles matches and then followed up his brilliant singles result by claiming the bronze medal in the doubles event, despite playing pairings who regularly train together. Lane…
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Wilts LTA Golf Day 2019
The Wiltshire LTA Golf day at Marlborough Golf Club was played in glorious sunshine. All the competitors enjoyed the day and there was some great scoring. Ali Ward, from Royal Wootton Bassett TC, scored an impressive 42 points to win the individual prize with Barry Cawte from GLL the Runner-up. The team prize was won…
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Tennis Opened Up
The LTA recently announced a new vision for tennis in Britain, as part of a long term strategy to grow the sport and open it up to many more people. You can read more about this on the LTA’s website, but the below gives a brief overview. Working closely together with County Associations, including our…
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Rebecca finishes Runner-Up at Tennis Europe event
Rebecca Heaps, who trains at Delta Tennis Centre, Swindon, finished the Easter holidays on a high at the Tennis Europe 14U event at Nottingham last week. The week started with a tough draw against the No 1 seeded Belgian girl Flo Helsen, Rebecca won 7-6 6-0. A great start. Next round was against the British…
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Tennis is a smashing success in Swindon!
On Sunday 7th April, Delta Tennis Centre celebrated its 30th anniversary, bringing the community together and welcoming over 1000 visitors. On the week commencing the 1st April 2019 The Tennis Team at Delta Tennis Centre embarked on a weeks long roadshow, to deliver tennis sessions to 10 local primary schools in Swindon. The aim of…
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2019 Adult County Championships
A glorious Saturday saw 10 singles matches and 4 doubles matches. Match of the day was between Jamie Barry (Riverside) and Josh Langley (Purton) with Jamie winning on a tie-break 3rd set and the biggest crowd of juniors and adults watched their coach Joe Revelle In the doubles semis Francis Smith/George Nixon (Salisbury) beat Ben…
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Lane sees off all comers at Bromley
Lane Stow is not a player to be trifled with, when it comes to tennis tournaments you play him at your peril. Again for the umpteenth time he came back with medals at his latest tennis journey, a gold in the singles and a silver in the doubles. Like  his idol Roger Federer he continues…