Padel

Padel Coaching and Social Sessions

8th January to 21st March 2024

Social Sessions

Padel Social Sessions will start week commencing 8th January 2024.

Click here for session information

Sign up for social sessions via the Racquets Hub or Reception.
https://roehamptonclubracquets.as.me/

The first Padel Tennis Social of 2024 is on Monday 11 March … remember to sign up online.
Numbers are limited and bookings will open 8 days in advance.

Padel and Prosecco Night

Monday 11 March

Each Member may sign up to one session below (click the links below) and, following some fun organised games, there will be Prosecco to celebrate.

6pm – 7pm https://roehamptonclubracquets.as.me/?appointmentType=41286295

7pm – 8pm https://roehamptonclubracquets.as.me/?appointmentType=55411178

8pm – 9pm https://roehamptonclubracquets.as.me/?appointmentType=55411189

Contact Paul Lindsay at paul.lindsay@roehamptonclub.co.uk with any queries.

Click here for the poster.

Adult and Junior Padel spring term coaching

Coaching starts week commencing 8th January

Click here for more coaching information

Places are NOW open for bookings: https://roehamptonclubracquets.as.me/

Padel racquets are available for hire at £5 at Reception.

Should any Member wish to purchase or demo a Padel racquet please visit the Sports Shop.

Please email Paul Lindsay, Racquets Manager at paul.lindsay@roehamptonclub.co.uk with any queries. ___________________________________________________________

Padel Team Success

Men’s National First Team

The Men’s Team, finished runners-up in the National Finals.
A convincing three wins from three in the group stages saw the team progress to the semi-finals where they beat David Lloyd Bushey.
The final was against Rocks Lane ‘A’ who were pre-tournament favourites. Two very close matches sadly went the way of Rocks Lane but a great achievement from the Men to finish runners up for a second year at the National Finals.
LTA – Tennis for Britain – LTA Padel National League 2023 – National Finals – Team: The Roehampton Club (4) – General

Squad: Chris Salisbury (Capt), Adam Sundblad, Javier Etayo, Francis Lanagan, Louie Harris.

Women’s National First Team

The Women’s Team finished runners-up in the National Finals, winning two match against Esher and East Glous Club but losing out to winners Harbour Club ‘A’.
LTA – Tennis for Britain – LTA Padel National League 2023 – National Finals – Team: The Roehampton Club (13) – General

A great effort by the women, well done all.
Squad: Katy Preston (Capt), Steph Cornish, Steph Williams, Amy Cairns, Laura Deigman, Daisy Maclean.

Good luck to the Men’s National Second Team playing this weekend …

The Men’s Team, squad below, will be competing in the LTA Padel National League Regional Finals
Squad: Craig de Silva (Capt), Bojan Jelovac, Ed Savitt, Oli Golding, Jonny Binding, George Palmer.

Dates – 23 and 24 September
Venue – National Tennis Centre
Draw – https://competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/events.aspx?id=ACC389B9-6CAE-4B81-A55A-05212A23666C&tlt=1

Padel Tennis Club Championship

On Saturday 2nd September our finalists competed for the chance to be crowned Padel Club Champions.

Click here for the results and draws

2023 Champions

Open – Ed Savitt and Chris Salisbury

Over 45s Open – Craig De Silva and Jorge Alcover

Ladies Open – Daisy Maclean and Natasha Marks

Mixed Open – Daisy Maclean and Ed Savitt

Roehampton Club vs Fitzwilliam LTC

Roehampton Club hosted Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club (LTC) for an exciting three days of padel over 25th – 27th August.

Click here for the match report from Captain Sandra Drum

European Seniors Championships

Great news that one of our Members, Sandra Drum, was selected to represent Ireland in last month’s European Seniors FIP (International Padel Federation) Championships in Alicante, Spain. It was an exciting fixture with over 800 players from 18 countries competing.

Sandra joined Roehampton Club in 2021. While on the golf course, she noticed new Padel courts being built and Sandra, who was an experienced tennis player, decided to try this new game. She is delighted she did!

‘What a thrill to play the number one seeds and clear favourites Spain in our first match. They were awesome and I learned a lot in spite of losing’.

Spain, unsurprisingly, went on to sweep the boards in all categories.

Other teams Ireland played included Great Britain, Finland and Germany. ‘We were well beaten by GB and Finland but the match against the Germans was very close losing 7/6, 6/4’.

Sandra really enjoyed the week. It was very positive for Ireland who improved their FIP European classification; the Seniors (over – 40’s, 45’s and 50’s) are now ranked in 12th of 15 and Super Seniors (over -50’s, 55’s, 60’s) 7th of 9.

Team GB Seniors finished 8th of 15 and the Super Seniors 5th of 9.

‘Thank you to Roehampton Club for introducing me to this truly wonderful game’.

European Seniors Championships

Great news that one of our Members, Sandra Drum, was selected to represent Ireland in last month’s European Seniors FIP (International Padel Federation) Championships in Alicante, Spain. It was an exciting fixture with over 800 players from 18 countries competing.

Sandra joined Roehampton Club in 2021. While on the golf course, she noticed new Padel courts being built and Sandra, who was an experienced tennis player, decided to try this new game.

She is delighted she did!

‘What a thrill to play the number one seeds and clear favourites Spain in our first match. They were awesome and I learned a lot in spite of losing’.

Spain, unsurprisingly, went on to sweep the boards in all categories.

Other teams Ireland played included Great Britain, Finland and Germany. ‘We were well beaten by GB and Finland but the match against the Germans was very close losing 7/6, 6/4’.

Sandra really enjoyed the week. It was very positive for Ireland who improved their FIP European classification; the Seniors (over – 40’s, 45’s and 50’s) are now ranked in 12th of 15 and Super Seniors (over -50’s, 55’s, 60’s) 7th of 9.

Team GB Seniors finished 8th of 15 and the Super Seniors 5th of 9.

‘Thank you to Roehampton Club for introducing me to this truly wonderful game’.

Padel Success

Padel Ladies – Surrey League report

In the first half of 2023 Roehampton Club entered the first ever Surrey Club Padel leagues.
Our Men competed in the top ‘Diablo’ league and enjoyed some very competitive matches and notable wins. In the group of six clubs the top two teams qualified for the Finals weekend, sadly we fell just short.

The Ladies Padel team entered the inaugural LTA Padel Leagues playing in the Cobra Division, Captained by Astrid Drayson. After the group stage matches Roehampton Club successfully made the Finals weekend, held at Epsom LTC.

Astrid kindly put together a report from the finals weekend:

‘We enjoyed some fun matches and learned a lot in the process.  After the conclusion of the league stage, we were leading our league having played three matches (won two and draw one), received one walkover and had one match rained off.

We had a number of different players playing for the team – Alex Hince, Anita Sadler, Astrid Drayson, Mikaela Parker, Nicole Huleatt-James, Natalie Lindsay and Penny Yates.

Then ‘Finals Day’ at Epsom on Sunday 21st May.
Unfortunately, we did not have much notice and played in some unknown pairings against Esher.
Astrid and Penny played first and the five-minute warm up was not enough to get us started, losing 6-1 6-1.
Nikki Walker and Sara Levy played the second rubber. These two had never been on court together but gelled really well. It looked like they might be forcing a deciding shoot-out for a while, but ended up with a narrow loss 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 8-10.

The team has enjoyed playing match against other clubs and we are preparing for another league season.’

Court Bookings, no-shows and late cancellations

No-shows are bookings where the Member who booked the court did not check-in within the allowed check-in window.

The MyCourts court booking system allows one no-show before the second triggers a 7-day booking ban, and/or one late-cancellation before the second triggers a 7-day booking ban.

Reminder; please only book a maximum of three 30-minute sessions for your Padel matches.

Internal Padel Leagues

Please email Paul Lindsay if you wish to join the Padel leagues – paul.lindsay@roehamptonclub.co.uk

Noise

We want you to fully enjoy your game of Padel but please respect our neighbours at Fairacres by keeping noise to a minimum.

Adult and Junior Padel tennis spring term coaching

Click here for padel tennis coaching sessions starting in September 2023.

Places are now open for bookings at https://roehamptonclubracquets.as.me/

Reminder – Padel rackets are available for hire at £5 per booking at Reception.

Should any Member wish to purchase or demo a Padel racket please visit the Sports Shop

Padel Success

Congratulations Laura Deigman

December 2022

More great news as Roehampton Club Member, Laura Deigman, won a Grade 1 Padel event on the weekend of 3/4 December.

Laura and her partner, Aimee Gibson, were playing in Stratford with numerous top female Padel players in the country included in the draw.

Report;

‘It was a great weekend. The first time my partner and I had competed in a grade 1 event (we had played two Grade 3s leading up to it).

In our first round we came up against 2 strong ex tennis players whom we used to compete against as youngsters. Coming through a very fast paced game with a 6-2 7-5 win.

In the quarter final we faced the number 2 seeds from Spain and Greece. This game was a slightly more convincing win with a score 6-0 6-0.

Up next were 2 GB players Lila Simpson and Catherine Rose. Knowing them well from training we had some clear tactics going in and after a long battle we came out on top 10-6 in the third set tie break.

In the final we faced Abigail Tordoff and Lisa Phillips who have been dominating the LTA tour for the last year. Having beaten Tia Norton in the semi final we knew it would be a tough match but we were confident we had the game to win.

After another tough battle we took the win 2-6 6-2 6-3.

It was a great event overall and really positive to see the women’s draw so full.

I am looking forward to competing more and hopefully getting more of the Roehampton ladies involved too.’

England Vets in a Six Nations Padel Masters

Tim Webb and Nick Yates represented England Vets in a Six Nations Padel Masters Tournament in Helsinki over the 10th and 11th September weekend.

The other five competing nations were Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Ireland, and the hosts Finland.

Each country played each other in a round-robin format. Matches consisted of three rubbers and each pairing must have a combined age of 100!

The standard was very high, and England managed to finish fourth. Finland won the event (the host nation often does!) ahead of Estonia and Switzerland. England finished above Germany and Ireland (whom they beat 3-0!).

It was a fun weekend – the tournament was played in a wonderful spirit and, incredibly, there wasn’t a single injury!

It’s great to see Roehampton Club Padel continuing to grow from strength to strength (as highlighted by the men’s iPadel national finals victory in Derby over the weekend) so it is inevitable that the Club will have an even stronger presence in international events going forward.

England Vets in a Six Nations Padel Masters

Tim Webb and Nick Yates represented England Vets in a Six Nations Padel Masters Tournament in Helsinki over the 10th and 11th September weekend.

The other five competing nations were Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Ireland, and the hosts Finland.

Each country played each other in a round-robin format. Matches consisted of three rubbers and each pairing must have a combined age of 100!

The standard was very high, and England managed to finish fourth. Finland won the event (the host nation often does!) ahead of Estonia and Switzerland. England finished above Germany and Ireland (whom they beat 3-0!).

It was a fun weekend – the tournament was played in a wonderful spirit and, incredibly, there wasn’t a single injury!

It’s great to see Roehampton Club Padel continuing to grow from strength to strength (as highlighted by the men’s iPadel national finals victory in Derby over the weekend) so it is inevitable that the Club will have an even stronger presence in international events going forward.

Padel Tennis Club Championships 2022

Saturday 3rd September saw the second annual Padel Club Championship Finals take place. Click here for the final draws.

A large crowd gathered for four closely fought matches, with the wonderful addition of the matches being streamed live for those unable to attend.

The standard of Padel on show for Members and their guests was highly entertaining and those lucky enough to see the matches first hand were also treated to some pizza … no left overs seems to show this was well received!

Mixed Open

Daisy Maclean and Bojan Jelovac beat Sian Bayliss and Jorge Alcover 6/4, 6/2.

45s Open

Craig de Silva and Jorge Alcover beat Nick Yates and Fred Warneryd 6/4, 4/6, 10/6.

Ladies Open

Daisy Maclean and Natasha Marks beat Sian Bayliss and Katy Preston 6/1, 6/4.

Open

Craig de Silva and Chris Salisbury beat Jack Hazlewood and Fred Warneryd 6/3, 6/2.

Additional success

Later on Saturday afternoon Roehampton Members Jorge Alcover and Katy Preston made the trip to Epsom to compete in the Finals of the Mixed County Padel Championships.

In previous match rounds Jorge and Katy had beaten Oxshott, Esher, Surbiton and Woking without conceding a set in the whole tournament. They then went on to play the Number One pair from Epsom in the final, winning 6/2, 6/4.

Congratulations to Jorge and Katy, the County Mixed Padel Doubles Champions.

England Vets in a Six Nations Padel Masters

Tim Webb and Nick Yates represented England Vets in a Six Nations Padel Masters Tournament in Helsinki over the 10th and 11th September weekend.

The other five competing nations were Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Ireland, and the hosts Finland.

Each country played each other in a round-robin format. Matches consisted of three rubbers and each pairing must have a combined age of 100!

The standard was very high, and England managed to finish fourth. Finland won the event (the host nation often does!) ahead of Estonia and Switzerland. England finished above Germany and Ireland (whom they beat 3-0!).

It was a fun weekend – the tournament was played in a wonderful spirit and, incredibly, there wasn’t a single injury!

It’s great to see Roehampton Club Padel continuing to grow from strength to strength (as highlighted by the men’s iPadel national finals victory in Derby over the weekend) so it is inevitable that the Club will have an even stronger presence in international events going forward.

Padel Tennis Club Championships 2022

Saturday 3rd September saw the second annual Padel Club Championship Finals take place. Click here for the final draws.

A large crowd gathered for four closely fought matches, with the wonderful addition of the matches being streamed live for those unable to attend.

The standard of Padel on show for Members and their guests was highly entertaining and those lucky enough to see the matches first hand were also treated to some pizza … no left overs seems to show this was well received!

Mixed Open

Daisy Maclean and Bojan Jelovac beat Sian Bayliss and Jorge Alcover 6/4, 6/2.

45s Open

Craig de Silva and Jorge Alcover beat Nick Yates and Fred Warneryd 6/4, 4/6, 10/6.

Ladies Open

Daisy Maclean and Natasha Marks beat Sian Bayliss and Katy Preston 6/1, 6/4.

Open

Craig de Silva and Chris Salisbury beat Jack Hazlewood and Fred Warneryd 6/3, 6/2.

Additional success

Later on Saturday afternoon Roehampton Members Jorge Alcover and Katy Preston made the trip to Epsom to compete in the Finals of the Mixed County Padel Championships.

In previous match rounds Jorge and Katy had beaten Oxshott, Esher, Surbiton and Woking without conceding a set in the whole tournament. They then went on to play the Number One pair from Epsom in the final, winning 6/2, 6/4.

Congratulations to Jorge and Katy, the County Mixed Padel Doubles Champions.