Bandon Tennis Club Blog

Several Winter League matches are planned for Bandon teams again this weekend. The courts are booked from 11am on Sunday until 7.30 pm for a grade 4 home match against Lr. Aghada and a grade 6 home match against Whitechurch.
The Grade 2 team go to Rushbrooke while the other grade 4 team travel to Douglas. Best of luck to all teams.
The turkey tournament will take place on Wednesday 7th, starting at 7.30. Same format as last year. Many thanks to Roger for sponsoring the event again this year!

It was a very busy weekend for Bandon tennis players.
The finals of the Hurley Cup were held on Friday night.
Semifinal line up was:
Paraic and Liz v Niall and Brenda
Sean and Jeanine v Freda and Timmy
The finalists were Paraic and Liz and Sean and Jeanine. It was shaping up to be a tight match until Jeanine had to retire due to injury. Congratulations to Liz and Paraic. You’ll be the bee’s knees in your designer shades!
Many thanks to Barry Hurley for sponsoring the event so generously again this year.
A good crowd turned out to watch and Tish provided a very tasty Green Thai Curry. Desserts were by Maggie, Eileen and Catherine. All in all it was a very enjoyable evening. Hard luck Sean and Jeanine and may you make a speedy recovery Jeanine.
Winter League matches aplenty were played this weekend. Therese, Lisa, Andy and John (G4A) had a 2 all draw at home against Rushbrooke on Wednesday. Ivan, Timmy, Dolores and Liz (G6) were beaten 4/0 at home by Nenagh while John, Ger, Susan and Julie (G5) held Canon Hayes to a 2 all draw at home.
Paraic, Shaun, Tara and Tish (G3) were beaten 4/1 in Sundays Well, while Jenny, Catherine, Billy and Niall (G4B) were beaten 4/0 in Crosshaven.

The Grade 2 team (Stan, Sean, Diana and Gina) was beaten 3/2 in a very close match against St. Annes, Waterford, played in Bandon yesterday. The ladies doubles was the decider with the Bandon ladies eventually losing 7/5 in the third set.

All courts booked from 12.00 until 4.00 on Sunday next (20th Nov) for Grade 2 Winter League fixture. Stan, Sean, Gina and Diana play St. Annes of Waterford.
Two courts booked for Grade 4 Winter League match on Weds 23rd Nov from 5.00pm to 9.00pm. Therese, Lisa, Andy and Will play Rushbrooke.

There were mixed fortunes for Bandon’s Winter League Teams this weekend.

Stan’s Grade 2 team had no match as Nenagh had to pull out of the competition.

The Grade 4A team (Therese, Joan G, Andy and Will) was beaten 4/0 in Sundays Well.

The Grade 4B team (Jenny, Catherine, Niall and Dave) won 4/0 at home against Causeway (Dungarvan).

The Grade 6 team (Ivan, Dolores, Anne and Tom) won 4/0 at home against Tralee.

The next round of matches are scheduled for the weekend of November 27th. Court bookings will be posted here as soon as fixtures have been arranged.

The 2011 Hurley Cup is now underway. To see the pairings click here. Before scheduling your matches check the poster in the club house for court availability.

Tara on her wedding day.

Congratulations to Tara Mukerjee who got married to Kieran Dwyer on Friday October 21st. The bride looked fabulous. It’s been a good year for Tara on the tennis front as well. She moved up to Grade 3 in the October regrades. Well done Mrs Dwyer!
Congratulations also to Team Bandon who did so well in Bishopstown’s Larry Byrne Cup held at the weekend. Our team consisting of Billy and Freda Roycroft and Brian and Joan Gollins made it to the semifinals before being defeated by Sundays Well. Great stuff!

Alan O’Mahony of Bounce Tennis Academy has brought Cardio Tennis to Bandon!
A session is designed to keep a group of eight on the move over two courts, for an hour and a half. Alan promised plenty of heart pumping exercise, shot practice and fun and he certainly delivers.
The exercise doesn’t seem so hard disguised with music and games, but the aching muscles on the following day tell a tale. Great fun and good for you too! Highly recommended!

Well done to everybody who helped to make our Open tournament such a success!
Maggie did a magnificent job managing courts and players and keeping delays to a minimum.
Eileen made sure that the kitchen ran smoothly and twisted many an arm to provide the best of homemade goodies.
Roger patrolled the courts, clipboard in hand, in his role as referee, making sure all rules were abided by.
Mary proved to be a dab hand at extracting cash for the raffle from unsuspecting kitchen customers, and Brendan nabbed anybody Mary missed!
Other committee members Tish, Lisa, Susan, Paraic, Sean, Niall and Catherine gave up a huge amount of time during the week doing whatever needed to be done.
A big thank you to all club members for cooking, doing kitchen duty, providing raffle prizes and for participating. Special thanks to Declan for being official photographer. Photos will be put up on the website very soon.
Congratulations to our own finalists Jenny, Jo, Brenda, Ivan and Declan. You did us proud!
Congratulations to Niall Cloke from Rushbrooke who won first prize in the raffle (tennis racquet) as well as making it to two finals.
Thank you to the competitors who came from clubs all over the county. We value your support, the excellent tennis and the camaraderie we all enjoyed during the week.

Bandon Open Tournament 2011 is now up and running! Entry is bigger than ever this year with 180 players from all over County Cork partaking. We have 33 of our own members, 29 from Carrigaline, 20 from Sundays Well, 16 from Ballinlough, 14 from Crosshaven, 13 from Kinsale, 12 from Rushbrooke and 9 from Lr Aghada. We also have players from Ardfield/Rathbarry, Bishopstown, Clonakilty, Cork Parks, Douglas, Lakewood, Monkstown, Whitechurch and Youghal. We are running Mens Doubles, Ladies Doubles and Mixed Doubles Competitions at Grades 3,4,5,6. Maggie is doing a super job coordinating affairs despite having one arm in plaster!