James Law parting said this – After 4 straight defeats in the 2nd tier of top flight tennis in the south, Seacourt 2 have sacked their
manager and have appointed Ian “Redknapp” Collier in a defiant attemptto turn the teams fortunes around and survive in the competitive relegation battle! Does this new inexperienced manager have what ittakes?

Only time will tell, but off the back of his elite winter
training camp with assistant Vinny “stu pierce” Venus under the
beating suns of Lanzarote, they may just have and edge in their
arsenal, a string to their bow or even… a blasting backhand!!!

As the newbie of lawn tennis captains in the club, I can only say
this: Thankyou to James for not only running the 1st team and the 2nd
team lawn tennis mens doubles teams for sometime but also for
providing what can only be described as “barely edible” ham
sandwiches. However, it is up to me now to pick up the mantle which
has been left rolling around under the benches and for me alone to
cling on to whatever hope we have of not being surpassed by our third
team as they gain promotion to division 2 at the same time as we go
back to the floundering lows of division 3. With 4 games to go in the
winter league, and as we proudly prop up the table with our broad
shoulders, I put out a call to arms to all our sick note team members
that its time to stand up for that which we believe in, a call to
those that would rather spend a Sunday morning reading the papers and
enjoying a nice full English breakfast in the warmth and comfort of
their own homes, choosing this instead of making one of several trips
to the isle of wight to play tennis in the rain.. Ask not what your
tennis club will do for you, ask what you can do for your tennis club
- And Im thinking of you here Vince Venus..! My solace in our
impending relegation is only moderately surpassed by the fact that
with Pete Wilsons catering skills we surely cannot fail to win yet
again the league catering trophy. Veni, vidi, placentam edi.

Seacourt is proud to host the Silver Racquet 2013 competition between 7th-10th February.

We have a host of top players already entered to entertain your with their athleticism and court craft. Bryn Sayers, Conor Medlow, Rob Fahey, Ben Matthews, Andy Fowler, Luke Danby, Hugh Latham have already entered to challenge for the title.

The Silver racquet dinner is booked for Friday 8th February, 7.30-8pm start and once again we will be auctioning the surviving quarter finalist players. If you would like to attend please sign up on the notice board in the bar area. (£26.95, wine included)

We also require members to billet players from Wednesday onwards and I will also need help stewarding the matches during the competition. Again if you are available please sign up or email me direct.

Many thanks

Seacourt is open as usual despite the snow.
If you are lucky enough to have a snow day off why not come and play your favourite sport(except lawn tennis).

Seacourt juniors set a world record (unofficial)by serving and returning their own serve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIPZEr1OCjc

On January 12th 2013 during the last match of the day the torrential rain finally managed to seep onto the real tennis court with devastating effect. Within an hour the whole court was flooded along with the rackets court.

Team Seacourt pulled together and after 14 hours of pumping water and drying out the court, it was ready for action by 10am on Sunday morning.

Click here to see the clean up operation on youtube
http://youtu.be/-DJVshfeDbA