Lessons. Growing the game. Growing our membership.

As we look ahead to lessons, our attention turns to balancing access to courts for lesson time and general member play. Lessons are an important part of growing the game and growing our membership.  Both are vital to the long term viability of our club.  

Starting the week of June 8, we have decided to focus private and semi-private lessons on court 5. Stefan will have “early access” to book these lessons on court 5, Monday to Friday, between 8am and 5pm, not including weekends. You will see this time “blocked off” on the court booking system. 

What does “early access” mean? It means Stefan can book lesson times on court 5 more than 7 days in advance. We have asked Stefan to release court 5 times “as early as possible” to enable our members to book time for general play.

Why court 5? We recognize some of you may prefer court 5 and this will make it harder to book your favorite court. It makes sense to use court 5 for lessons as it helps to contain the tennis balls and it is a singles-only court. This keeps our other 4 courts available for both singles and doubles play.

You may see Stefan on another court, if he gets a last minute lesson request, and court 5 time has already been reserved by a member (e.g. after it had been released by Stefan). By giving Stefan early access to court 5 we hope this will not happen very often. And if this does happen, we have asked Stefan to release time on court 5 to compensate.

It will take some time for this new approach to fall into place. Once it does, we hope a routine will emerge with Stefan releasing court 5 time as soon as possible and members finding this time available for general play.

As we look ahead to junior and adult group lessons, we are dealing with restrictions related to the pandemic. We are at the planning stages now and will have more information to share in the near future.

We thank you for your investment of booking time privileges to help grow the game and grow our membership. The long term success for the game of tennis and for the club depend on it.