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Insight Insurance Munster Senior Open 2019

As many of you know the Insight Insurance Munster Senior Open was held at the beginning of June. It was a busy week with 30 events, 481 players but it all went very smoothly! Well done to all our players who took part and congratulations to our finalists and winners. The results are available here A very big thank you to the tournament committee, all our sponsors particularly Insight Insurance and all the volunteers (over 60 of you!) who contributed time to help in the office, umpire matches, be ball boys/girls.

Pewsey Friendly 2019

This weekend we welcomed 12 visitors from Pewsey LTC, Wiltshire, UK. The Tennis & Social Committees organised events to coincide with this visit over the weekend, starting with a ‘Meet & Greet’ on Friday night in the River Lee hotel. Tennis matches were organised for Saturday & Sunday mornings and the visitors were guests at the presentation dinner for the Internal Winter League & Ladder Cup finals on Saturday night. The visit finished on Sunday afternoon with a presentation to our Pewsey visitors by our Chairman, John O’Sullivan and Tennis…

Ladder Cup & Internal League Finals 2019

The finals of the Internal Winter League and Ladder Cup took place last weekend (Saturday 13th April). This was followed by the Ladder Cup dinner at which the prizes were presented and was attended by over 80 members and guests. Internal League Results Congratulations to the winning Winter League Poachers team (captained by Clare Duggan), who overcame the Tramliners (captained by Kevin McCarthy) Ladder Cup Results Congratulations also to all participants, winners and runners up in the Ladder Cup finals. MARDYKE CUP: Glyn Exshaw(w) Paul Barry (r/u) Shane McCarthy (3/4)…

Munster Veterans' Open 2019

Last weekend (29th-31st March) saw the completion of the Club’s first major event for 2019, the Munster Open Veterans Tournament.Over 165 players from all over the country participated in 28 events from over 35 to over 70 age categories. This was a bigger entry than in 2018. We saw some fantastic tennis from some of the county’s top Veteran tennis players and which was aided in no small part by brilliant sunshine throughout the weekend. Several Sundays Well players took top honours in the following events O50 Doubles: Marie Duffy …

Civil Service Cup 2019

On Sunday 31st of March, Sunday’s Well had two teams playing in the Civil Service Cup, an annual interclub event which is held in Douglas Tennis Club. The teams were made up of Robert Murphy, Dermot Carbery, Ann Humphries and Emma Crowley Claire Fennell, Maria Crowley, Hugh Nagle and Ed Donovan Claire’s team reached the semis but were unfortunately beaten by the eventual winners Monkstown. Congratulations need to go to Monkstown on their win and well done to Douglas on hosting a very enjoyable event. A number of photos are…

Winter League Finals 2019

Two of our Winter League teams represented the club on Finals day in Limerick Lawn on March 24th. Mag’s grade 5 team, made up of Mags, Gillian, Peter, Ciaran and Donal’s G3 team made up of Donal, Niall, Jeroen and Brian were unfortunately beaten in two tight matches. Both teams lost 3-1 to Nenagh and Limerick Lawn respectively. Getting to the final is a fantastic achievement so well done to all and thank you to all the supporters who travelled up for the day. Photos are available on Facebook at…

Winter League Results

Following some pretty tough weather conditions which resulted in 3 out of 4 semis being postponed for a week, all 4 semifinals have now been played. Donal’s G3 team and Mag’s Grade 5 team have now qualified for the Winter League Finals which are due to be held March 24th in Limerick Lawn. Unfortunately, Sunday’ Well had a tough weekend for the quarters with 4 teams being knocked out. This now leaves Sunday’s Well with 4 teams in the semis and these will take place this Sunday (3rd March). Donal’s G3…

Upcoming Junior Friendlies

A calendar of junior friendlies has now been organised for the upcoming months. The days that there are no friendlies, there will still be club matchplay. All of the friendlies and match play will take place in Sunday’s Well and we would strongly encourage our juniors to play as it is an excellent way to get practice, meet other players while having some fun. Ger Flynn has sent the upcoming calendar of friendlies to parents and the details are listed again below. You can also find a list of all upcoming…

Christmas Cracker

42 people took part in this year’s Christmas Cracker event which was held in the club on the morning of the 27th of December. It was great to see the club buzzing during the holiday season. A huge thank you must go to Vice Captain, Donal Johnson and to Paul O’Callaghan for doing all the organising while the captain skipped off on holidays! Photos of the event are available at this link on Facebook. =

Super Seniors Finals

The finals of our new Super Seniors event took place on December 11th, there was some superb tennis and followed by festive lunch. A massive well done to Mags Cronin and Noel Murphy who were the overall winners also a huge thank you needs to go to our sponsor Stephen McCarthy, to Liz Brosnan for donating some of the spot prizes, to Liam Murphy of Brook Inn for his delicious lunch and also to Donal Murray, Paul O’Callaghan, Mary Jane Kenefick and Donal Johnson who have been the ones doing…

Ladies Christmas Lunch

The annual ladies Christmas lunch took place yesterday December 5th, approximately 40 members attended to celebrate the festive season in the company of their tennis friends. Brook Inn provided a delicious Christmas Dinner and a presentation was made to Greg Morris as a thank you for all his work during the year. A number of photos are now available at this link on Facebook.

Rafa Nadal Academy Visit 2018

Yesterday, we had a visit from the Rafa Nadal Academy who came to the Club to give a few coaching sessions to members of all ages. We wish to thank the Academy for their visit, a massive thank you also to Ger, all the parents and players of all ages for their help and support of the event. Thanks must also go the members playing their regular games who were very patient when their courts were handed over a little later than normal. A few photos are now available on Facebook…