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THE COURTS
: The CGM tennis facility is made up of seven indoor courts and one outdoor viewing court. Features include substantial open space between and behind courts, as well as a state-of-the-art lighting system that provides excellent illumination without glare.

PROGRAMS : Our Tennis Programs are conducted by USPTA Professionals. Our staff is dedicated to making CGM Tennis a great place to play. Our club has many tennis activities to choose from, including; four Ladies City League Teams, USA Adult Team Tennis (12 teams ranging from 2.5-5.0), four USTA Senior teams (men and women), six USTA Super Senior teams (men and women), daily group lessons, private lessons, club mixers, Junior Team Tennis, and many daily and weekly tennis events. It is hard to find a more complete tennis program than Club Green Meadows Tennis. See you on the courts!



TENNIS NEWS & HAPPENINGS
By Nancy Ansboury

Nancy’s Tennis Tip of the Month
How often should I restring ?

A general rule of thumb is to string as many times in a year as you play in a week but no less than twice a year. Although this restringing advice is most often quoted and a number of tennis pro shops use this formula when calculating the restring date for your racquet, how useful is this? If you never break a string why do you need to restring your racquet twice a year? All tennis strings begin to lose tension from the moment they are strung and continue to lose tension over their lifetime. The more often you play the faster the tension loss but even if you don’t play your strings will become soft and need to be restrung.

Selecting the best string to use is a balance between the strings durability and its resiliency or playability (power and control). The resiliency of strings is a measure of how much the string stretches on impact and how much force it exerts on the tennis ball as it springs back. Strings that are too resilient will stretch too far on impact and break sooner. Big hitters and especially big spin hitters will need to choose a less resilient (stiffer) string to get sufficient durability (and to prevent over stretching at impact). So we need to match the string to our style of play paying special attention to how much power we need to generate from the strings versus how much we generate from our swing. If your strings are too durable you are giving up power and control in favor of durability. If you plan to restring your racquet twice a year and your strings are durable enough to last several years you may be trading power and control for durability that you will never use. You may want to experiment with strings that offer greater resiliency.

A good starting point is to use the same strings you are playing with now but choose a thinner gauge string, i.e. if you are using a 16 gauge synthetic gut consider using a 17 or 18 gage string of the same type. You can also stick to the same material (Nylon or Polyester) and construction (Multifilment, Solid Core, Monofilament) but choose a string that is less stiff. If these strings break too often for you then you can move back in the other direction until you find the right balance between durability and playability to suit your needs.

Tennis Information :


RESERVATIONS:

Please note: all tennis court times are 90 minutes. Times begin at 6:00 a.m. and continue throughout the day in 90 minute blocks.
• Only one court may be reserved per phone call per day. No consecutive court times.
• Tennis members may reserve courts up to two days in advance, after 7:00 a.m.
• Athletic members must make reservations on the day of play.
• Anyone using the tennis courts must check in with the Front Desk for court assignment.
• If you are more than 15 minutes late, you may lose your court.

Check In / Cancellation Policy:
All players must check in at the Front Desk prior to going on court. If a court reservation is not canceled one hour prior to the reserved time, each member will be charged a $5 “no-show” fee.

Court Fees:
(Per Person)
Athletic member ....................$8.50
Guest
(singles or doubles)...............$10.00

Ball Machine:
Single Monthly Pass.......................$20.00
Family Monthly Pass......................$30.00
One time use..................................$ 7.00
(We kindly ask that you pick up your tennis balls and replace the ball machine where you got it. Thank you.)

Regular Activities:
(Tennis Members Only)
Ladies’ Night.. ......Mon. , 6:00 pm
Mens’ Night..........Wed. , 6:00 pm
Ladies Day...............Fri., 9:00 am
Senior Mens’ Day.........Fri. , Noon
Mixed Doubles:
.............1st and 3rd Fri. , 6:00 pm
Mens’ Day.............Sat. , 9:00 am

Junior Policy:
Junior Tennis members, those under 16, may play tennis during Junior Center hours posted for Tennis.

Tennis Member & Non-Member Lesson Fees:
1 hour member $45
1 hour non member $50
1/2 member $25
1/2 hour non member $30

Tennis News & Events

USTA League: New leagues will start forming in January. If you want to join a team contact the tennis office. There is a team for everyone! Our 6.0 senior mixed doubles team is headed for Florida to play in the National Tournament April 9th-11th. Itsuko Day, Vicki Blunt, Gwen Babi, Julie Yang, Judy Masterson, Jon Gaston, John Bala, Arvid Anderson, Jeff Orme, Ken Hoffman and Bruce Feldman. Good Luck to you all!!!

CGM Junior Tennis January - March 2010
Click Here for Registration Form

Junior Tennis News: There is a clinic for all ages and abilities that are ongoing. Time to get your child started, it’s never to late. The High School season will get started in March so those girls need to brush up on their skills before then. Contact the tennis department for more information.

Handball:
We will be hosting the Washington State Handball Championships Dec 4-6th. Come check out some exciting play.



24 HOUR STRINGING IS OFFERED IN THE PRO SHOP



  


Read the entire Tennis News & Happenings in this months Meadows Magazine


12.05.2009