We are sad to announce the death of one of the driving forces instrumental in founding this tennis club.

Barbara Baber helped found the club, played league tennis for the club into her 80s and coached juniors. She took a keen interest in the progress of the annual tournaments and will always be remembered via the Baber Cup.

A memorial service to celebrate her life is being held at St James Church, Christow on Tuesday April 15th at midday

We're holding our annual Barn Dance on Friday 17th November at Teign Valley Community Hall.

Doors open at 7pm, with dancing to Jeroka from 7:30. All welcome - members, familes, non-members, anyone in the Valley or beyond!

There will be pasties on sale and a licenced bar.

Tickets are £10 per adult and £5 for an accompanied child

The AGM will be held in The Bowden Room at 7:30pm on 21st March.

We're holding our annual Barn Dance on Friday 17th November at Teign Valley Community Hall.

Doors open at 7pm, with dancing to Jeroka from 7:30. All welcome - no experience needed!

There will be pasties on sale and a licenced bar.

Tickets are £8 per adult and £4 for an accompanied child

The Annual General meeting was held on 16th March. Draft Minutes of the meeting, including details of the new Committee, can be found here.

The meeting approved the Committee's recommendation to keep fees for 2023-4 at the same level as the previous year.

Key change day is April 15th between 10am and 1pm

The Barn dance was a great success and enjoyed by all present. Look out for the 2023 details in the autumn!

We have arranged for club sweatshirts to be available through Clobbur.

The base sweatshirt colour is "Heather Grey". The men's product code is SS92 and the women's SS79. Prices around £32 and sizes from Small to XXL (8 to 18). Call Clobbur to order with the Teign Valley Tennis Club Logo, as pictured below, modelled by Grania.

Clobbur are on 01392 274545 and can be found right next to Exeter St. Davids station at 5 Isambard Parade, St Davids, Exeter. EX4 4BX

The AGM was held at 7:30pm in the Bowden Room, Teign Valley Community Hall on 12th March 2020.

The Agenda can be seen here and the draft minutes for 2020 will be here soon

Tom Sewell and Lyn have just been to the Devon LTA awards evening, where Tom was part of the coaching team which picked up the Disability Award. The citation reads:

Kingsteignton TC runs a tennis session called Lob Stars which is a highly innovative initiative that has attracted players with Down's syndrome (DS) from across Devon.

It was developed by James Trout and Tom Sewell who is one of the first with DS to get an LTA qualification. The two friends and collagues worked together to become tennis coaching asistants and start Lob Stars in 2018.

During 2019 the session has increased in numbers of players and volunteers. Every week players are involved in a number of dynamic exercises and practice sessions. The team have spent time researching ways to ensure the sessions are fun and effective. Kit provided by the tennis foundation also helps create lessons the players look forward to and remember.

James, as co-founder, has provided strong leadership to take the idea from pencil scribbles to a tennis session that runs every week. Tom is very much a role model for players. The club has shown considerable support for the entire enterprise while he is building a strong network of enthusiastic and dedicated coaches who are keen to learn and develop their skills for inclusive tennis. James is leading the way in supporting coaches, with a disability, to gain LTA coaching qualifications.

Chris Robillard organised a club competition on 29th December. 12 people played in the sunshine. Mattey and Jen won.

Our Christmas Social was at The Royal Oak, Dunsford. A select group of members enjoyed a convivial evening with good food and conversation.

The Baber Cup was held on the afternoon of 20th October. 14 people entered on a warm and largely sunny day. Players were arranged in pairs and played 4 games with their partner and then swapped to play 4 against in the same group of players. Each counts the number of games they won as points and then pairs moved on to play another pair untilall pairs have played the others. The player with the highest points count wins.

Congratulations to Jen, who won with 25 points, closely followed by Chris on 21 and Andy on 20.

Thanks to Chris Robillard for organising the pairs and the games and keeping score as no one else could understand his hand drawn spreadsheet!

Chris working out the scores

Chris Robillard kindly ran another competition for us, along the same lines as he has done previously.

On Sunday, 29th September 12 players took part in the doubles event.
Coffee and Italian cake were enjoyed by all, and the rain stayed away.

Woody and Nikki were the winners.

The Annual General Meeting of the Teign Tennis Club was held in the Bowden Room, TVCH on 21st March. Draft minutes (which will be approved at the next AGM) can be seen here.

The 2020 AGM is planned for 12/03/2020 in the Bowden Room. All members are welcome to attend and ask questions of the Management Committee or stand for elected positions.