Tring is a welcoming, friendly and competitive tennis club. We organise a variety of social events and internal competitions, and run several teams in our local leagues to cater for a wide range of tastes and abilities.

Mix-in sessions are scheduled 3 times per week for adult members throughout the year. Court time is also reserved for general play and coaching with our resident qualified coaches. We are particularly proud of our achievements with junior members who make up around 50% of our total membership. We firmly believe that our commitment to our younger players is the lifeblood of our thriving sports club.

Welcome to Tring Tennis club

2011 Season – the important forms!

Membership is now due (Form)
Junior membership application (Form)
Juniors mini coaching (Form)

New: On-court fitness sessions now available

Enjoy a heart-pumping workout and improve your tennis along the way!!

 Download 2011 session details

Cardio Tennis is an exciting new group activity that’s gathering hundreds of new fans every day. Not only does it provide the ultimate high-energy workout and a great alternative to the gym but it also develops your tennis skills, whatever your level of play. All evidence strongly suggests, too, that it can help reduce the risk of heart disease and will improve overall health and fitness. So all in all, Cardio Tennis is a very welcome new addition to the range of activities on offer at Tring Tennis Club.

You don’t even need to be a tennis player to enjoy Cardio Tennis. If you can swing a racquet, you can enjoy a level of workout that more than rivals the gym. And if you’re a decent tennis player, you can only improve the level of your game. In fact, if you’re short of a tennis partner or your regular partner can’t provide you with the level of workout you’d like, this is an amazingly enjoyable alternative to a match! (Open to members and non-members!)

Iain Rennie & Tring Tennis Club

We are delighted to announce that Tring Tennis Club and Iain Rennie Hospice at Home will be working together through 2010 and 2011. Iain Rennie’s skills in PR and marketing will be a real asset fo us and in return we will be helping Iain Rennie raise their profile even further in the local community and raise funds at special events. For further information on Iain Rennie, go to their website here

Head Coach

The committee are delighted to announce that Paul Hodbday has accepted the newly formed role of Head Coach at Tring Tennis Club . Paul will be the single point contact for all coaching at the club and will also be providing a racquet re-stringing service. You will now be able to get your racquet re-strung on a Wednesday club evening while you wait! Paul’s contact details are on the coaching page of this website.
Congratulations to Paul!

Floodlight keys

The committee has recently decided to make several additional floodlight keys available to members. This is to help ensure that the lights do not need to be turned off when members are waiting to play, just because someone needs to take their key home. (If the lights are turned off, they cannot be turned back on again within 20 minutes to protect the bulbs). The fee for using the floodlights is unchanged, so if members are using their new key, we ask that you are honest and pay the required amount (£3 per hour) into the light meter. Please note that a lighting key overrides the meter, but the meter will still take your money – honest! If you feel you have a need for a floodlight key, please contact Viv Bryan who is coordinating this.

Adult Coaching

Group adult coaching is available to members and non-members of all standards. Contact our coaching team or you can download details of current courses here.

Car park security

Please do not leave valuables in your car when playing tennis. We have recenlty had another break-in, this time on a Friday lunchtime. Also, please do keep an eye out for anyone who doesn’t seem to fit. Let’s not have any more victims. Thanks.

Midweek tennis

We have now added Monday to the midweek schedule, so midweek tennis will now meet on Monday and Thursday mornings.

Line calls: LTA guidance – was it in or out?

So was the ball in or was it out? To get the definitive explanation of this rule the LTA have provided the following insight:

The rule states if “any part of the ball touches the line, the ball is in”. The call is made more complicated as the ball “squashes a little on impact”.  In fact, the ball squashes a lot on impact, especially on serves and smashes.  You may have noticed on Hawkeye replays at Wimbledon that the marks the ball leaves vary in shape and size.  For example, if it is a lob, the mark the ball leaves is likely to be almost spherical.  If it is a smash, the ball is likely to leave a long, narrower mark. Unfortunately many people think that the rule is similar to a ball crossing the line in football.  It is NOT!. A football can still be in play without actually touching the line at all.  It is the opposite in tennis, something has to touch the line. (Herts LTA)

So here’s the graphic to help us. Example 3 may come as a surprise to some!.

The Call: 1. Both the overhead and along-the-line view show the ball touching the line on impact. Ball is IN 2. The overhead view shows the ball touching the line on impact, but this is not conclusive. The along-the-line view shows that the ball squashed on impact and did touch the line. Ball is IN 3. The overhead view shows the ball touching the line on impact, but this is not conclusive. The along-the-line view shows that although the ball overshadowed the line, it did not touch the line. Ball is OUT 4. Both the overhead and along-the-line view show that the ball did not touch the line. Ball is OUT After all this it’s no wonder that we so often have different views on a line call!!

British Tennis Membership

Many members have already signed up and joined ‘British Tennis’ but we still need to encourage other members to do so. There’s no charge for membership, but there are benefits for us as a Tennis Club. The more members we have joined up, the bigger the benefits we receive! For example, it was soley due to our current BT membership numbers that we received an additional 11 pairs of tickets from the LTA for this year’s Wimbledon tournament. Please do sign up! Thanks. Download application form

Tring Tennis Club

Membership 2011

Download your membership form here

Adult Coaching

Download April to July schedule

Head Coach - Paul Hobday

Team captains

Principal contact details for all our team captains are on the 'contact us' page

Diary

Events Diary 2011

Code of Conduct

Download

Club Rules & Bylaws

Download

ITF Rules of Tennis

Just in case we forget!

Line Calls

LTA guidance below!

British Tennis M'ship

Application form

Newsletters

Indoor tennis

Available at Berkhamsted tennis club. Call 01442-863393