Category: Tennis

The Induchem Club Championships took place between September 22nd – 27th and had a record entry of over 150 entries. This year the format changed significantly and the presentation was done in tandem with the dinner on the Friday night.  A massive thank you to our sponsors Induchem and also to Emma Crowley & Claire Fennell, tournament directors and all the committees which helped with the organisation to the event. The lists of winners is available at this link and there are also a number of photos available from Facebook.

A massive well done must go to Ron O’Mahony, Shane McCarthy, Grace Reidy and Sandra Higgins who are competed in the Grade 2 Summer Cup finals in Rushbrooke. The team were facing off against Rushbrooke and after 4 matches it was 2-2 all. The Mens Doubles was the decider and Ron and Shane came back from 5-2 in the third to win the tournament. Well done to all !

On September 6th and 7th, Sunday’s Well was delighted to host the Junior Veteran’s Interprovincial Event. The level of tennis throughout the weekend was outstanding and Sunday’s Well was well represented on all teams. Leinster won the title overall but Munster did have wins in the Ladies 35+  40+  and Men’s 45+events, in particular well done to Abby Hayes, Mary Claire McCarthy, Deirdre Swinburne who were all part of these winning teams.

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.

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)…

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…