Sydenham Tennis Club (Squash & Tennis)
Lawrie Park Road • Sydenham, London • SE26 6ET
Tel: 020 8778 4217
The current racketball leagues ends in just over a week’s time, on 12 December. I hope members of the leagues will try to get their remaining games in by then. If anyone, in addition to the current members of the racketball leagues, would like to be included in the next league, would they please let me know before 13 January, which is when I will post the new leagues? To anyone who has been thinking that they might like to give racketball a go “sometime”, I suggest that two reasons why now is a good time to convert “sometime” to “now”. First, we are getting into the cold time of the year – and long range forecasts suggest that we are in for a cold winter. The ball used for racketball bounces higher than the one used for squash and provides a much better game when our heating system can’t manage to get the courts up to the temperature which squash balls need to work properly. Second, the leagues starting on 13 December will be the last ones before the annual racketball handicap tournament. This starts with a “round robin” i.e. a single big league and then goes on to a knock out tournament between the top eight players in the round robin. The normal leagues i.e. the ones that start on 13 December are a better place to start than the round robin. The rules and tactics of racketball are very similar to squash, so squash players normally adapt to it very quickly – and discover that the longer rallies that are normal in racketball do wonders for their fitness! If you are tempted but would like to try a game first, please contact me or Pete Edwards. This would also help us to set your initial handicap. Otherwise I will set it based on whether you are a squash player and, if you are, your squash standard as shown by you position in the squash leagues. David Roberts
03/11/2016
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