
ACTIVITIES
COMING SOON
Easter Camp
Summer League
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Junior Coaching
This is ongoing throughout the year.
Senior League
This DLTC League for over 35s is ongoing at present
Social Tennis,
There is regular social tennis ongoing at present for members:
Men's doubles: Founded by Scott in 2019 MDCC is our Men's Doubles Quest for Candles social event run at 8pm once a week, alternating between Mondays and Wednesdays. All levels are welcome and it's a great way to meet new members and ruthlessly dispatch them in order to win a 3 euro candle. Anyone interested can text 085 1583127 to be added to the WhatsApp group. The group is also a good way to organise other matches during the week.
Puffins: Puffins welcomes all members of any level. We meet on Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings for friendly tennis games and to organise games during the week. Text 087 3102268 to be added to the group.”
New Member Coaching: This is ongoing at present to catch up on the disruption caused by Covid.
ACTIVITIES
Ashbrook LTC supports activities throughout the year for both senior and junior members
Competition:
We enter a number of teams at various levels in the Leinster Seasonal leagues.
We also run Club competitions through the year.
Social Tennis:
We provide regular opportunities for social tennis where members can get to meet each other and find partners to continue their tennis
Open:
For the last number of years we have run the Ashbrook Open competition which has proved very popular among tennis players from all over Dublin and beyond.
Community Support:
We support the Enjoy Tennis programme for special needs players by providing courts, coach and volunteers to coach these players.
We rent courts to neighbouring schools and to organisations which do not have their own facilities.
New Member Coaching:
New adult members are given free introductory coaching to develop their skills and meet other new members.
Junior Coaching:
Our junior members enjoy a substantial discount for the junior coaching terms.
Fitness:
Various programmes such as pilates or fitness4tennis are run in the club house and keep some of our members in excellent trim.
Recent Activities
Summer Championship:
The Summer Championship consists of 12 events and events are in-house, i.e for Ashbrook members only.
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Men's Singles/Doubles
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Ladies Singles/Doubles
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Mixed Doubles
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Men's Handicaps Singles/Doubles
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Ladies Handicaps Singles/Doubles
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Mixed Doubles Handicap
We also have our Men's Challenger and Ladies Challenger which are particularly aimed at all our new members/beginners level.
Members are allowed to enter up to six events.
Finals were played on Saturday 10th September 2022.
DLTC SENIOR LEAGUE 2022. 5 teams were entered for the Senior League
ASHBROOK OPEN - 16TH - 23RD JULY
DLTC MIXED LEAGUE 2022.
Mixed league commenced on the 1st July and finals took place on Aug 19th. The Finals were held in Ashbrook.
DLTC SUMMER COMPETITIONS 2022.
We have entered 3 Ladies and 3 Mens teams for the DLTC Summer Competitions.
Loan of Courts.
Rathgar Junior School:
Rathgar Junior School will have the use of up to the full 6 courts for an hour between 2.00-3.00pm.
This runs from Thursday 28th April 2022 on every Thursday until Thursday 9th June 2022 .
10th JULY - CENTENARY CELEBRATION
Celebratory day with tennis in the style of 1922 & launch of centenary memorial book.
Spring Competitions 2022
Check out the Facebook page and this link for some photos from the Finals https://photos.app.goo.gl/PSYiuwTAFYoLtAaP7
Winner Runner-Up
Gents Singles A Steven Vaughan Adrian Lynch
Gents Singles B Frank O’Reilly Conor Delaney
Ladies Singles A Aimee O’Hanlon Catherine Harris
Ladies Singles B Deirdre Breen Melanie Reis
Gents Doubles Adam Vaughan & Steven Vaughan David Gough & Adrian Lynch
Ladies Doubles Catheryne Mc Carthy & Ann O’Hehir Paula Jones & Dolores Molloy
Mixed Doubles Ann O’Hehir & Michael Moran Dolores Molloy & Adam Vaughan
Winter League 2022
Ashbrook entered 4 Ladies and 4 Gents teams in the the 2022 Winter League. The weather conditions were appalling but the results exciting. The ladies had two teams in Class 4 and One in class 7 and Class 8. The 1st team came at the top of the section A table with a superb 14 points out of a possible 15. The 2nd team finished second in their group and the 3rd team finished joint 2nd in theirs. The 4th team had a very difficult draw but battled heroically to win 5 points.
Junior Coaching - March 2022
Our coaching term started on the 28th of February and continued for 6 weeks to the 8th of April. The cost is €60 per child for members and €85 for non-members.
Autumn Junior Coaching:
Coaching started on the 6th of September and runs until the 25th of October at €70 per child for members and €95 for non-members & 8th of November until the 17th of December for 6 weeks at €60 per child for members and €85 for non-members.
DLTC Winter Competitions 2021
These took place towards the end of 2021 due to Covid preventing them at the start of 2021 so they are being followed very quickly by the 2022 competitions.
Summer Competitions 2021
Greetings Ashbrookers,
Well Finals day on Saturday did not disappoint, unlike a certain GAA team whom i won't mention for fear of defamation laws although the unmentionable team will be way too busy preparing to sue a certain Joe Brolly than to be bothered with what I think of them. So despite all the country rejoicing at the prospect of a changing of the guard at Croker and the Dubs even agreeing to the change due to boredom on their part, nothing actually changed....Mayo still lost!
But Change is certainly what we got at Ashbrook on Finals day with so many of our Finals being won by first time winners.
Congratulations to Leo Vaughan, our new Men's Singles Champion and to Sile Quigley our new Ladies Singles Champion.
In addition, the 'Boy Wonder' Adrian Lynch won his fIrst Handicap Gents Singles to add to his runner up Mens Doubles title. He even helped his old Man win something by carrying him through to win the Handicap Gents doubles final. A great Father and Son team! Btw, if you happen to exchange Xmas presents with the Lynch household chances are your getting a One 4 All voucher this year....just a hunch!
Some things just can't be moved though and just like the invincible Dubs, Anne O'Hehir and Marguerite are starting to wind everyone up by continuously winning everything they enter! And so congratulations again to the dynamic duo for winning their Ladies Championship Doubles final. Catherine and Trish pushed them all the way and indeed threatened to blow our schedule apart but with the big match looming they found the last volt of Duracell Bunny battery power to take it home.....again unlike Mayo ( you can't win them all girls!).
Once we had our awards presentation out of the way, all that was lefts was to bask in the sunshine with a pint,scream at the telly thanks to another Mayo wide and wait for the delicious pizza to arrive. FYI for all future Captains, when ordering Pizza for Finals day , factor in if the Vaughans will be present, if so multiply the order by 50% to be sure!
The evening was finished off with a wonderfully competitive Handicap Ladies Double Final with all four competitors playing fab despite the Pizza, Prosecco and Mayo! Congrats to Marguerite and especially Barbara, another first time Winner!
Finally, thank you to all our fellow Ashbrookers who took part in the games and those who came down to support during the last month. Myself, Andrew and Martin are kind of winging are way through this Captain malarkey and regularly rely on advice from those who have seen it all before and have the T Shirt!
Simple things like putting 'Runner Up' on the Envelope and not 'Loser', I kid you not! Ann Strahan was a witness!
So massive thanks to Anne O'Hehir, Marguerite and Paula for the endless text message responses and guiding hands!
Keep an eye on our facebook page and instagram for pictures from Saturdays action from the supremely talented but no way as pretty as me Myles Shelly. Apparently the standard of photography took a massive leap on Sat, so i was told by absolutely everyone! Awards photos to follow.....
Till next year, when we will all want a change and be delighted to see the Dubs lift the Sam again!
The Ashbrook Captains
Summer Camp 2021
Another very successful Summer Camp was held this year during July/August. Over 100 children attended and a great time was had by despite the Covid restrictions. Well done to our coaches for once again combining a fun time with real learning.