As you know, your club membership includes the provision of tennis balls + use of floodlights. We are one of the few clubs to provide balls and the only one I know of to provide free use of lights. These are great perks for club members and something we plan to continue.
To improve the use and quality of tennis balls provided, we now have 2 racks installed on the right-hand side of the ball cupboard. The rack on the left has empty tubes and the one alongside has tubes containing junior balls. Under the racks is a unit containing loose balls for senior use.
There is a list of instructions attached to the wall as a reminder but could members using normal, full-pressure balls please do the following:
The logic is that lower-pressure junior tennis balls don't lose even more pressure when stored in tubes in the current conditions but the normal ones do. Keeping them in tubes at the club would mean that they would just go flat but this system should improve their ability to last longer. Last year the club spent £700 on tennis balls and hopefully this system will improve shelf-life and outlay.
There is still the basket for general practice balls. This is the one where we place senior balls once the writing has almost disappeared and they are good for general practice, rather than match-play.
To improve the use and quality of tennis balls provided, we now have 2 racks installed on the right-hand side of the ball cupboard. The rack on the left has empty tubes and the one alongside has tubes containing junior balls. Under the racks is a unit containing loose balls for senior use.
There is a list of instructions attached to the wall as a reminder but could members using normal, full-pressure balls please do the following:
- Take an empty tube from the rack and fill it with 4 decent balls from the unit below.
- After play, please return the balls to the unit and replace the empty tube in the rack?
The logic is that lower-pressure junior tennis balls don't lose even more pressure when stored in tubes in the current conditions but the normal ones do. Keeping them in tubes at the club would mean that they would just go flat but this system should improve their ability to last longer. Last year the club spent £700 on tennis balls and hopefully this system will improve shelf-life and outlay.
There is still the basket for general practice balls. This is the one where we place senior balls once the writing has almost disappeared and they are good for general practice, rather than match-play.
