Tynemouth Squash Club

Tynemouth has a new site

2010-02-28T10:40:00.001Z

This site has been discontinued but will remain as an archive.

The new site is on www.squash.me.uk/tynemouth

www.tynemouthsquash.com will redirect there shortly

Welcome to TynemouthSquash.com

2010-02-27T13:24:00.000Z

Welcome to Tynemouth Squash Club, the friendliest and best Squash Club in the North-East.

Ray's Babes

2010-02-24T22:56:00.004Z

If you haven't been down to the club on Wednesday evenings you don't know what you're missing ... court five is the place to be as Ray Rycroft puts his babes through their aerobic paces.

Not sure what else to say really ... the pics say it all ...

It's a TKR for Dave

2010-02-22T19:07:00.003Z

What's a TKR, you ask?

The procedure that Dave Todd, 66, endured last week is known as a "Total Knee Replacement", so it's definitely not keyhole surgery, of that we can be sure.

Having played 3 or 4 times a week for the last ... well, forever ... he's out of action for ... well, possibly forever, it's a case of wait and see.

Still, the staples came out today, so that's progress, and Dave's decidedly optimistic.

"For the first time in 7 or 8 years I've got no pain in my knee, apart from the pain of the operation which will soon go. I asked the surgeon if I'd be able to play again, and to my surprise he said 'Why not?', so hopefully I'll be back on court in a couple of weeks!"

Good luck Dave, how are you fixed for 5.40 next wednesday ???

2010-02-22T08:23:00.000Z

Tynemouth Squash Rackets Club Presents:

Members Official Opening Night

Friday 26th March 2010

Live Bands Night Featuring:

Crazy Neil's Young Horse

And

Archie Brown Trio

Starts 7.00pm Tickets £5.00 Adults £3.00 Children includes Buffet

Tickets Behind the Bar or ask a Committee Member

Five new courts - get booking !

2010-02-20T22:26:00.000Z

Well that's it ... apart from a few finishing touches we have five brand new courts, new lights, new heating controls, synchronised electronic clocks, and we're back in business, so get booking ......

From this ................ to this ....

eeeee, Geoff, just like they were in 1926 .......

2010-02-17T22:01:00.002Z

Notice to all Members

With only a few minor points to be addressed in finalising our refurbishment, it has been decided to open the squash courts on Friday 19th february 2010, please telephone to book your courts.

Committee TSRC.

Almost there ...

2010-02-15T22:27:00.000Z

The floors are down, the walls are done, the ladies' changing room is transformed.

It's down to the finishing touches - doors, lines, heating controls, corridor work ...

The Monday 22nd reopening looks assured, with a chance of courts being playable on Friday or over the weekend.

Update 3rd Feb

2010-02-03T16:19:00.000Z

Work seems to be progressing nicely - all the floors are now up, and work has started on the walls - here's a before and after ...

The crack in court four's front wall looks to heve been filled too.

Here's a couple more shots ...

Cracking up in the Car Park

2010-01-27T12:51:00.000Z

Apparently there's a crack down the outside wall in the rear carpark, which needs to be sorted out before the cavity wall insulation is installed. Looks like it's worse than it first appeared, and it's likely that this crack is going through to the interior walls, which will be why the front wall on court four has always been a bit dodgy.

A structural engineer has been called in, awaiting his verdict, but CourtCraft say that as long as it's fixed by next Thursday it won't have any impact on their schedule. Fingers corssed ...

A few photies

2010-01-26T18:36:00.000Z

Not too much obvious work today, so here's a few photos to keep you amused ...

(Direct link)

Let the works commence

2010-01-25T18:14:00.002Z

Major court work started today, as the Courtcraft workers arrived shortly after 9am.

The courts are now unplayable, with the floors on courts one and two stripped out, and court three halfway there (there's just the odd board out of four and five).

The place isn't completely dead though - the bar is still open, the Sauna is available until next Monday, and the Table Tennis table is set up and ready for use.

There's a Pool Competition - with prizes donated by the brewery - starting at 5.30pm on Friday 29th. There will be a table tennis comp the following week, so get practicing.

His cup runneth over - the Steve Cubbins Cup

2010-01-22T18:33:00.000Z

What's this that Steve Cubbins has won ?

Well, nothing actually, it's YOU who could win this magnificent trophy ... if Steve decides so.

Let's explain.

The committee are very appreciative of Steve's efforts over the years, particularly in organising events such as the Club Championships, Summer Open, Exhibitions, Social tournaments etc. They kept trying to give him some form of reward or recognition for this, but Steve always wanted to stay in the background, got annoyed when a committee member tried to thank hm publicly at one of these events, and refused all offers of recompense.

So, they came up with the idea of .... the Steve Cubbins Cup.

The idea is that each year Steve gets to decide who should be the lucky recipient, the criteria being ... whatever Steve decides.

Sterling performances for the club teams, advancement in national and international competitions, tireless work on behalf of the club, acts of kindness (like buying Steve several Kronenbourgs), the possibilities are endless, and we won't get to know who will become the first recipient until this years' Club Championships, which will take place towards the end of the year.

"It's a really nice gesture from the Committee," said Steve. "I do what I do because I enjoy doing it, not for any particular reward, but if they're insistent on making something of it then this is a really nice way, so thanks to everyone involved and I hope I make some good choices to receive this lovely trophy."

So there you go ... you are being watched, and come the end of the year one of you will receive a lovely surprise. Who, and Why ... we'll just have to wait and see ..............

So Long Sodium

2010-01-21T16:25:00.001Z

The lighting on all five courts has now been replaced with traditional flourescent strips, so the days of burning out your eyeballs looking out for those lob serves are over ... not that the lob servers are particularly happy !

Court Maintenance Update

2010-01-15T17:39:00.000Z

Some preparation work is nearing completion, with the out-of-court areas tidied up, and traditional strip lighting replaced on three courts so far. The major work to refurbish all floors and court walls starts on the 25th Jan and is expected to last three and a half weeks.

During this time the courts will be out of action, but the club will be open as normal with full bar facilities - and table tennis!

Other work which will be carried out includes installation of a stairlift, replacement of the heating controls, refurbishment of the ladies' changing room, cavity wall insulation and a host of other improvements.

The club us expected to be open for usual business towards the end of February. Arrangements have been made for members to use the courts at Jesmond and Northern in off-peak hours.

More updates to follow ...

70s Squash and Table Tennis Comp

2009-12-29T18:05:00.001Z

In a bid to recover from the traditional Christmas excesses, more than several club members assembled on Tue 29th Dec for a 70s squash and table tennis competition.

After the initial haggling over whether the late 70s graphite rackets were eligible was decided in favour of the organiser (who happened to get double byes in both competitions), the action began.

The Squash final was a shootout between two graphite-racked empowered familiar foes, Ian McAllister and Alan Blacklock, with the bald one prevailing.

In the ping pong event, victory went to specialist Steve Tuplin, benifiting from not destroying his upper arm with a weighty relic as he despatched his multi-sport competitors with ease (beating Ian Mc in the final).

In true 70s tradition we're all still at the bar drinking ......... with El Prez quietly simmering about not getting in on the photo as the plate winner .....

2009-12-27T12:26:00.002Z

TSRC Christmas Raffle

Many thanks to all who contributed

2009-12-15T18:13:00.003Z

What's on @ TSRC Christmas & New Year

Friday 25th December-Closed

Saturday 26th December-El Pres' Bar

Squash Doubles 4-6pm
Bar opens 6pm
Christmas Raffle 8pm

Monday 28th December-4pm Opening

Tuesday 29th December-Table Tennis & 1970s Squash Competition

Wooden Rackets provided
2pm Start
Sign up on noticeboard

Thursday 31st December-New Years Eve

Social members Panto
Ian Robertson as Widow twanky(with a T)
Paul Bolger's bar 8pm-11pm

Friday 1st January 2010- Live music@ TSRC Lazy but Live& Guests

Bar opens @ 12pm
2pm Start
All members and guests bring food(NO TURKEY)

Saturday 2nd January-back to the Grind

Don't forget to buy your Christmas Draw raffle tickets-all proceeds to Club Refurb.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all TSRC Members & Staff from The Management Committee.

Tynemouth teams crash in Racketball comp

2009-12-06T18:05:00.003Z

Sad to report that Tynemouth could only finish second and third in the racketball team tournament held at the club today ...

Club Champs Photos

2009-11-15T13:13:00.001Z

Launch external Gallery

Club Champs Day Six - Finals

2009-11-14T20:50:00.001Z

Finals day saw some serial winners retain their titles - Paul Millington in the men's, Hannah Cliff in the Women's, and John Thompson in the Vets.

Paul and Hannah both beat debut finalists in Peter Fargher and Sam Ward, no doub it's not the last we've seen of them on finals night. John overcame Colin McNestrie in five, but Colin's consolation is to take the Vintage title at the first attempt.

Biggest effort on finals day was by Jason Follin, who beat Paul Errington 3-2 at lunchtime, then Andy King 3-2 tonight, on his way to collecting the B, O35 and Racketball titles. Having siad that, several had to play two, three or four times today, so well done all of you !

Full results to follow ...

Sam collects a bagful while mum is left to scrabble for scraps

DC Solitions Squash Shop

2009-11-14T11:39:00.002Z

Don't forget, for all your squash supplies call in at the club shop ...

Club Champs Day Five

2009-11-13T21:34:00.003Z

As predicted Friday was the busiest day, with doubles, singles, vets vintage, tired bodies and empty glasses a plenty.

The evening kicked off with the women's semis, where Sam Ward beat mum Dawn in three, and Hannah Cliff beat Lucy Beecroft 3-1 in what was by all reports an excellent match. Three teenagers in the semis and two in the final sounds pretty good, doesn't it.

The doubles took its usual course with the mixed group - won by Cliff & Cliff - having fun while the macho men slugged it out in the other groups with hardly a smile between them. Millington and Iredale claimed a controversial victory in group C while the Sam & Lucy superteam dented a few male egos as the walked it in group B.

Yours truly acquited himself well against Mr Thompson considering I couldn't move more than a couple of feet an hour by the time we got on court, and as we speak the much-anticipated Cliff-McNestrie vets semi is still to go on court.

Update ... 10.15 and Colin takes the fifth13/11 to reach the vets final.

Finals start at around 4pm tomorrow ...

Club Champs Day Four

2009-11-12T19:02:00.004Z

Millington moves into the final

Defending champion Paul Millington was first into the 'A' final, despatching Russell Hunter in straight games. The match started at Paul's favoured ferocious pace, and Russell was minded to join in. There were some tremendous rallies in the first game, and the 9/2 scoreline scarcely did Russell justice for the effort he'd put in.

One observer (ok, it was me) forecast that the Alnwick man was unlikely to be able to keep that pace up, and so it proved as Paul raced to an 8-0 lead in the second with Russell now well under the cosh. Much to his own annoyance Paul tinned his first game ball opportunity, and Russell took advantage to claw a few points back. 9/4 this time, which on the balance of play was probably more than Russell merited.

He had some momentum now though, and managed to take an early lead in the third. At last managing to dominate some of the exchanges, and extracting a few errors from his opponent, Russell moved to a 7/2 advantage. That was as good as it got though, Paul tightened up, took control of the 'T', and took seven points in a row to clinch the match, 9/7.

"Too fast for me," said Russell afterwards. "I thought I played well in the first and got nowhere, but I got slaughtered in the second. I think he eased off in the third, but when I got to seven I thought I'd take that game. I wouldn't have won the match, but it would have been nice to take a game."

In truth Russell was beaten at his own favourite game - fast, hard, low, giving your opponent no time to think. "That's what I'm going to do to one these on Saturday," threatened the pummelled loser as he watched Ferret Fargher take on Joker Ward for the other place in the final.

Glenn took the first game in that match (which I didn't see as both semis were on at the same time), but thereafter Peter imposed his game to come out the 3/1 winner and set up a final which should be a real clash of styles - it could be a cracker.

John's out of gas

Incident of the night was John Thompson's late arrival. John works at Nissan and took delivery of a new Quaskhai (you know what I mean) today, and naturally assumed there was enough petrol in it to get him from Nissan to Asda in Boldon. Nope ... he didn't even make the A19, sputtering to a halt on the sliproad. A quick call to security brought him a canful, but of course his battery was flat too. To cut a long story short, he got here and won both his matches.

Friday frolics

With the ladies' first team having an away match tonight, their semis are tomorrow, which should be the busiest day of the lot with the doubles event alongside all the tidying-up main draw matches. Action starts at 6pm and it promises to be a late night ...

Steve Cubbins

Club Champs Day Three

2009-11-11T20:44:00.001Z

We're down to the semi-finals in the main events, with the top seeds all through.

In the women's event defending champion Hannah Cliff eased past Carly Huntley to set up a semi-final meeting with Lucy Beecroft, while the other semi will be an all-Ward affair. Sam beat Gilly Milly in straight games but mum Dawn was stretched to the limit, having to come from 2-1 down and 4-1 down in the fifth to deny Nicky Dobson. "I didn't think I was going to win that," admitted a relieved Dawn.

The bottom men's semi was already settled - Glenn Ward v Ferret Fargher, and tonight the last remaining quarter-final saw Russell Hunter and John Thompson slug it out for the right to meet Paul Millington in the top half semi. As expected it was Russell doing most of the slugging, coming through 3-0.

Elsewhere the Masters continued apace ... well, probably slower than that term suggests, but at least the matches were completed with no emergency calls required. Yours truly took his life in his hands by despatching El Prez in five fast, furious, skilful, imaginative, action-packed games, and my next task, in all probability, is to see if I can extract a bead of sweat from Mr Thompson in the vets semis.

Meanwhile over on court one, the "pong, pong" sounds told us that the racketball event was under way. Everyone tells us we should be playing more of this, and maybe it will be good for beginners and those struggling with their movement in their dotage, but so far it's yet to take off in t'North ... time will tell.

Steve Cubbins

Mister Maximum
Dave Todd in the O45, O55, O65 and Racketball events

Full posts now available

2009-11-11T13:00:00.001Z

The first mailing went out last night, with reports from the first two days of the Club Championships. Unfortunately the settings were for "Short" meaning that only the first few words of each report went out in the mailing.

The setting is now changed to "full", so the complete reports should go out as from tonight, and as you can imagine this post is mainly to test whether this happens correctly!

In the meantime, if you're reading this on the site, don't forget to subscribe by entering your email address on the right, and you'll receive all the updates by email (at most only one email a doy, and only on days where there are new posts).

Cheers,
Steve

Club Champs Day Two

2009-11-10T21:14:00.001Z

A fairly quiet night, as the first rounds of the main events concluded, some racketball matches and the quarters of the 'A' event.

Glenn Ward progressed smoothly enough to the semis with a straight-games win over Steve Robertson, and he will meet Peter 'ferret' Farhger. Maurice Cliff got his practice against a runner last night, but in truth Peter is a runner extraordinaire, and although our Moz had leads in two of the games, and accumulated seven points in all three of them, the crowd and both players knew there was only one winner ...

Defending champion Paul Millington meets the winner of tomorrow's match between Russell Hunter and John Thompson in the other semi.

The glory may be in the 'A' event, but all eyes are looking to Friday's doubles, where 13 pairs will go all out for the ultimate prize. Group A features five mixed pairs intent on having fun, while Groups B & C are composed of the macho men, all likely to be eclipsed by the Sam & Lucy all-star team.

Wednesday's action starts at 6pm, and if we can get enough people hanging around in their sweaty kit we'll have a lightning tournament or three ....

Steve Cubbins

Club Champs 09 under way

2009-11-10T10:17:00.001Z

The 2009 edition of the Club Championships got under way last night (Monday), and despite the usual worries about 'should we ring everyone up to make sure they know they're playing' there were only a couple of no shows, and those have been rearranged.

With the main events using 'normal' scoring the 30-minute court allocation was a tad on the short side (I'm talking about you, Maurice), but to be fair I always prefer to have people waiting for courts rather than have them standing empty.

Match of the night was Steve Robertson's narrow 3-2 escape against Hannah Cliff, closely followed by the enthralling Colin McNestrie/Jason Follin duel which concluded the evening on court four (3-2 to Colin). I must have inadverdently locked the passageway door as I went to mark it, because the expected crowds simply failed to appear - you don't know what you missed, people.

Action continues tonight, starting at 6pm ... and remember, the finals are on Saturday night ('cos I'm departing for warmer climes on Sunday!).

Steve Cubbins

Latest Leagues - November 2009

2009-11-08T11:54:00.000Z

Here's the latest leagues, closing date 13th December 2009

Latest Leagues (Pdf)

Club Championships 2009 - the Draws

2009-11-06T16:04:00.000Z

Club Championships 2009 - DRAWS

Racketball Demonstration

2009-10-05T11:47:00.003+01:00

Thu 1st October saw the club host a Racketball demonstration, with a match between Jim Lord (National O35 & O40 Champion) and Neil Guirey (Yorkshire Champion).

Attendance wasn’t as good as we’d hoped, but there were representatives from several clubs present and we’re hoping to get competitions and/or leagues set up shortly.

Summer Open 2009

2009-08-28T10:25:00.002+01:00

The 15th edition of the Summer Open starts this Friday (Aug 28th) with the finals on Sunday evening.

Sumer Open 2009 Draws

Summer Open 2009

2009-07-25T08:21:00.002+01:00

Junior Championships 2009

2009-07-24T08:34:00.001+01:00

Click on a picture to open the Gallery

Congratulations!

2009-07-12T12:09:00.006+01:00

To Lucy Beecroft after narrowly missing out on winning The Dutch Open U13s final, Lucy lost the final 10-12 in the Fifth after previously serving to win the match.

Well Done Lucy from The Management Committee and members of TSRC.

Annual General Meeting

2009-06-10T08:38:00.005+01:00

23rd June 2009 Tynemouth Squash Rackets Club presents the Annual General Meeting, meeting starts 7.30pm followed by buffet.

Committee
TSRC

Barbecue and Band Night

2009-05-28T16:33:00.003+01:00

Saturday 20th June 2009 TSRC presents a Barbecue and live Band evening/night tickets cost £8.00 Adults and £3.00 children, late licence at the bar

Commonwealth Champions Challenge

2009-04-19T09:57:00.003+01:00

Sunday 17th May 2009, Peter Nicol v Lee Beachill - exhibition and clinics.

Exhibition starts at 5pm, tickets £10 ... don't miss it !!!

SOCIAL EVENTS 2009

2008-07-17T11:57:00.002+01:00

Some Club Photos

2008-07-15T14:27:00.001+01:00

EGM Fri 29th Feb 2008

2008-02-07T23:43:00.000Z

Please note that an Extraordinary General Meeting will take place on Friday 29 February commencing at 8-00pm. Full details in the documents below ...

Club Championships 2007

2007-10-05T10:20:00.000+01:00

Club Night - Games Night

2007-08-25T12:13:00.001+01:00

Friday 24th August saw the return of Club Night, and as promised it had a Games theme. Competitors got to play three games of squash, each with different rules, and then there were activities such as Pool, Darts, Shove the Stotty, Putting and Ball in Bucket to round off the evening.

Turnout was down, probably because it was the first pleasant Friday evening for months, but we'll keep it going with a couple of lessons learned to make the next one even better ...

IMPORTANT NEWS

2007-08-07T16:16:00.000+01:00

Pictured: Jason Follin (Juniors) and Mark Shipley (ES - Area Squash Manager)

Tynemouth Squash Club has been awarded the SILVER CHARTER status from England Squash. This is a significant achievement as the charter status is used as a kite mark to show quality clubs.

Gold is well within our grasp and we intend to work towards this over the next 12-18 months.

For more information about the club charter visit the England Squash website www.englandsquash.com

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IMAGE OF THE WEEK

2007-07-08T21:57:00.000+01:00

Tim gets his eye in ...

JUNIOR NEWS

2007-07-01T13:43:00.000+01:00

Saturday Mornings

Every Saturday (through the school term) we run coaching sessions for kids aged 5-16. The sessions are designed to introduce the children to this great game and to develop their skills by learning each shot and then putting this shot into practice competing against other children of a similar standard.

It is a great way to keep fit, have fun and make some great friends. At present there is approximately 60 children partaking in this activity every Saturday.

The group timings are as follows

10am Mini Squash
11am Intermediate Girls
12 Noon Intermediate Boys
1pm Advanced
2pm Elite

Each group runs through a set of seven lessons which become a full coaching session. Four sessions are ran (28 Saturdays) throughout the squash season. Smaller groups are ran through the summer based on attendance.

The seven sessions costs £20 and is prepaid in advance. The lessons are then ran in the following order

Week 1 Serves and return
Week 2 Drives
Week 3 Volleys
Week 4 Boasts
Week 5 Lobs
Week 6 Drops
Week 7 Player of the session - where the children play for their name engraved on the club plaque

Each lesson consists of 20 minutes of coaching the weekly shot and then 40 minutes of match play where the children compete against other children of a similar standard to improve their club ranking. This club ranking is updated at the end of each coaching session and displayed in the club.

The club also hosts a County Ranking tournament in partnership with Northern and The Northumberland Club (Jesmond) where the children are placed into box leagues and play against other children in the region (of a similar standard). The children play for their County ranking and all attendees receive a prize, either a medal or sweets. At the end of the season there is a presentation evening where prizes are distributed for the best players across the season. Prizes are supplied by this years sponsors Unsquashable.

The county rankings are used by the County coaches to form the County Squads. Richard Vitty runs the County Boys and Jason Follin runs the County girls. These squads meet up in the holidays for additional progress checks.

Upon completion of the Junior Squash coaching the children have the opportunity to become a squash coach and be employed by the club helping out on a Saturday morning with the younger children learning Mini Squash.

Any questions or further information please contact Head Coach Jason Follin on 0191 2894918 or mobile 07985 805814. Email address is jason.follin@blueyonder.co.uk

CLUB NEWS

2007-06-08T11:58:00.001+01:00

The AGM was held on 22nd May, with a pleasing turnout of 80 members. Main items of discussion were club finances, opening hours and booking system, plus of course the election of the committee for 2007/2008. Minutes will be posted shortly ...

TOURNAMENTS

2007-06-06T09:24:00.000+01:00

After the successful Spring Open, the next major events are the 13th Summer Open (August Bank Holiday weekend), Club Championships (October, dates to be confirmed) plus we'll be holding mini-tournaments from time to time.

A real aim is to revive the Proctor Memorial to bring some of the best players to the North-East, although this largely depends on finding funding, so if you know of any contacts or avenues for this we'd love to hear from you ...

TEAM NEWS

2007-06-01T11:58:00.000+01:00

Tynemouth fields five men's and three womens teams in the Northumbria Leagues, offering competitive squash to a wide level of standards (the fifth team is dedicated to juniors).

2006/07 Season review coming shortly ...