Category: Competitions

American Tournament Finals

The American Tournament which ran monthly from April – October was again a big success, we had 82 people take part over the 6 months and every month bar one was fully booked. The finals of the American Tournament took place on October 27th, Joe O’Mahony and Alex Daly were the overall winners. The tournament was backed with sponsorship from Cantor Fitzgerald and Human+Kind and the good news is that Human+Kind have already agreed to sponsor it again next year.

Insight Senior Close

Insight Senior Close week took place between 24th-30th September 2017. Approximately, 90 members took part in 13 events over the 5 day period.  The weather was testing at times during the week cause some matches to be rescheduled but the week finished on Saturday despite the changes. Winners and runners-up were given Club gear as prizes for the first time.

Summer Cup Finals

 Sunday’s Well was asked to host these at relatively short notice when St Anne’s was unable to do so. I am very happy to say that we were able to oblige and that we also had two teams playing on the day. Congratulations go to our Grade 4 mens’ team and our Grade 6 ladies who both won their respective events in a nail-biting superdoubles.

Munster Senior Open

The Munster Senior Open was held in June. With 30 events and 420 entries it was a yet again a big undertaking.  Dara Carberry again did a wonderful job as tournament director. In 2016, Dara Carberry & Trish Murphy did a considerable amount of work collecting and analysing data about the open. They looked at court time, number of players etc.. This year we were able to apply the lessons learnt from the data analysis and it made for a very smooth open with very few players playing late and…