This was the first club I joined, back in 1951. You had to be fourteen to play, so on my birthday my uncle Sandy (Alec Mason) took me along.
I have a lot of photos from the time, until I left about 1960 to join a club in Ivanhoe, now closed down.
The courts are at the corner of Glenferrie Rd and Cotham Rd, Kew, behind the Sacred Heart church and school. I went to the school, which has expanded greatly since.
I came back to Kew because it has a lot of social tennis, something a lot of clubs seem to be missing. Regular groups play Tuesday mornings, Thursday mornings and Sunday afternoons. Well, largely the same group!
Junior teams play Sunday mornings. One lot starts at 8.30am, another at 10.30am.
Our next AGM approaches! It will be July 19th at 12.30 pm.
Stereo photographs. I occasionally take stereoscopic pictures, and I have printed some red-green versions here. If anyone happens to have red-green glasses left from the pictures or whatever, you could look at them.
Our most recent event was the Club Championships.
In a reversal of previous years, Nick O'Bryan defeated Paul Merrigan, and Chris won the Section A event.
The pennant seasons are over for the moment, and there are NONE for the winter!. I went to take a picture or two at the VCLTA match in the last round, and the heavens opened, so nobody but me turned up.
These are half a season past, but I haven't taken anything else, so here they are still.
The girls who played in a team in a boys' section. This was their last season as they are now TOO OLD! But in only forty years they can join the Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday group.
And the boys' section... Oops, I didn't write it down.
The winners of the all-Kew section 4 semifinal, above, and the team they just beat below.
The girls section 3 team after their semifinal.
The boys' section 6 team ready to go into action at Deepdene.
The Section 2 boys' team, Kew Cats, playing at North Balwyn:
The Restrictions....
Stage 3a is currently in operation. Somewhat to our surprise, we can still water half our en tous cas courts. In other words, one. You can water this court before each set, but not after! On days when the courts are not in use, or on extreme hot and/or windy days, the court can be watered for up to half an hour between 12 and 1pm, and between 7 and 8 pm. We are in a better place to continue than many clubs, because much of our play is social. If the courts are wet we can use them all, if not we can still use the artificial grass ones.
We were thinking of taking away one of the nets, but it is better for the courts if we use one one day and the other another day. So as long as people are behaving themselves, both nets may stay.
This is the courts seen from the school yard. The grounds beside them are an oval for the school.
From the courts, the church rises above the school, which rises above the clubhouse.
If you want to write to the club, the address is:
I also do web pages for my other club, St Bernadette's, West Ivanhoe.