MLTC Club Notices 22/05/2025

MLTC NEWSLETTER  22nd May  2025

 Monkstown Man becomes latest Irish Professional Tennis Player

Conor Gannon, acknowledged as one of the finest players to emerge from Monkstown LTC, has made the momentous decision to pursue a career as a full-time professional tennis player, a remarkable achievement for MLTC.

Conor has made a significant contribution over the years and has been an inspiration to all, especially our juniors.

On behalf of all the members I would like to thank Conor and wish him all the best and every success in his professional career.

 Richard Keevey,

President

PARENT & CHILD TOURNAMENT - sign up now 

The very popular Parent & Child Tournament takes place on Monday 2nd, 12 - 3 pm.  

This is for all children (age 7+)

If a parent can't play, a sibling, aunt, uncle, grandparent - any older family member/friend can take the place of the parent!

Cost is €20 limit per family.

 All proceeds will go to the very worthy charity Tennis4Cancer.

Please sign up now on Easy Payments. Entries will close on Friday the 30th  May.

 Please bring a 'Plate' for sharing - sandwiches, crisps, mini bars, buns, etc - All gladly accepted! We also need volunteers to man the kitchen during the tournament - please let one of the Junior Committee know via the Junior WhatsApp groups.

SUMMER CAMPS - Sign up now

Summer Camps for our Juniors are now live on Easy Payments, so do sign up soon!
Please note, members can bring a friend to these camps.  When bringing a friend the member must book and pay for the friend on Easy Payment (under Bring a Friend)

 CLOSING DATE for sign up is Friday the 7th of June.

See attached schedule for details.

SUMMER LEAGUE – Ladies

This is the second week of Summer League with many games played over the 3 days with mixed results, all to play for.   

Three home matches next week:

·         MLTC4 – at home to Shankill3 at 7pm Monday 26th

·         MLTC2 – at home to Glenageary2 at 7pm Tuesday 27th

·         MLTC1 – at home to Donnybrook2  at 7pm Wednesday 28th

FIVE MILE LEAGUE – Ladies

This is also the second week of the 5-mile league with a double win from the two teams involved.  Well done to both teams and best of luck on Sunday!

SUMMER LEAGUE – Men

Two weeks into the summer league and our 1st and 4th teams are going strong !

 Super to see so many of you up in the club last Friday evening to support the 1st team and wish Conor Gannon well as he starts a new adventure on the pro-circuit.   Next up for the 1st team is Fitzwilliam 2 away at 2pm on Sat 24th.

 Our 2nd team, captained by Harry Crossan, have an important home match against Shankill 1 this Friday at 7pm.  All support welcome.

 Our class 4 and 6 teams (captained by Jack and Tim Stokes) are both playing at home this Saturday at 2pm and 4pm respectively.

 Good luck to everyone representing MLTC this weekend !

LADIES MORNING

As usual tennis on Wednesday  will take place at 10am and will be hosted by Helen Melvin.

Please come for tennis, coffee and chat.

MEN’S MORNING – Sunday Mornings

Mens morning will be on at the usual time of 10am - 12 so do come along for a hit!

 CLUB NIGHT – Thursday Evenings

Club night will be on tonight!  Pop down any time between 8pm and 10pm for a social game and Stephen will give some coaching support at the beginning of the evening. This is an opportunity to meet and play with members of varying standards and is a relaxed evening of tennis.

   JUNIOR NEWS

JUNIOR LEAGUE

Our Junior teams had a very successful campaign in the Spring Leinster League.

We entered 8 teams: U12 Girls, U12 Boys; U15 Girls, Boys & Mixed, U18’s Girls, Boys and Mixed. 5 of the teams reached playoffs - the U12 Boys; U15 Girls; U15 Mixed; U15 Boys and U18’s Girls. Our U12 Boys reached the semifinal which was played on the 11th of May and they were unlucky to lose 2-1 against Greystones - the matches were close and very exciting.

Well done to all our juniors who competed in the League - MLTC can be very proud of all of you.

U14S STARS & STRIPES

It was the turn of MLTC to organise the Spring U14 Stars & Stripes competition and this included hosting finals days on Saturday April 26th with matches taking place at 4pm, 5pm & 6pm on all 6 courts. Well done to Greg Ryan & Elaine our parent volunteers for U14's on the Junior Committee for all their organising. MLTC had a strong showing and won the 3rd/4th place match in the Cup with a win over Sandycove. Glenageary were the overall Cup winners. However, our girls won the trophy for most points accumulated throughout the competition. Once again well done to all who participated and thank you to the coaches for supporting them throughout especially - Karen McKenna, Jana Langford & Adrienne Cusack

For all new and current members:  If you have a junior member and aren’t in a WhatsApp group relevant to their age and would like to be added please contact the relevant person - see details below or see the Junior Committee Noticeboard. 

LEINSTER TENNIS TOURNAMENTS

On Sunday 11th May, Monkstown ran the T100 Leinster tennis tournament for the U14 boys. 16 boys from different clubs participated in the competitive match play including 5 of our own Monkstown boys.  

Well done Elliott, Dara, John, Toby and James who all did very well and received their first national ranking as U14!

Thank you to the men’s morning crew who gave up their morning tennis tournament to facilitate this junior play.

This Sunday 25th May, MLTC will host another Leinster tennis tournament for the U9 and U10 (Orange and green ball).  We are expecting 46 kids in total so the club will be busy.

Good luck to all the Monkstown participants - Tabitha, Siún, Johnny, Tom, Emma, Elodie, Lucy, Amelia and Hugo.   Enjoy! 

UPDATE FROM STEPHEN

Last Friday evening saw a big crowd convene at the club for the Mens first Team's Summer League match against Naas.

 The reason for the big turnout was the return of Conor Gannon to Monkstown.

 Conor, who later this month embarks on a full-time professional tennis career, wowed the crowd with a typically dominant and entertaining display on Court 4.

 It was great to see so many members of all ages and standards drop in to see Conor in action.

 As ever with Conor he was exceptionally generous with his time after his match and hung around to hit some balls with a few excited Junior

members.

 Wishing him the very best of luck over the coming weeks and we will all be keeping a keen eye on his progress as he starts out on the professional Tour.

 The dates of  the Summer Camps I'll be running have been finalised so make sure you sign up for them!

Camp 1        30th June - 4th July

Camp 2        21st - 25th July

Camp 3        5th - 8th August

A sad time for the club with three of our longstanding members passing away recently.

My condolences to the families of Gerry Roberts - Tony Bunbury and Pat Sloan.  RIP

All the best                Stephen