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There are two Tavistock teams in this division, C and D. The ladies started their campaign against the harder opponents. Score 25 – 64 in favour of Tavistock.

A busy weekend for the ladies, playing on both Saturday and Sunday. Winning both !

This time it was a 48 – 41 win away to Tavistock D

This match was rearranged due to much of Plymstocks team having tickets for a Take That concert on the original date. Weather was wonderful for this weekend – first nice spell after a miserable spring. Score -Plymstock : 47, Looe B : 35

Mens A team started with a win away to Devonshire C. Two matches went to the third set meaning that the fixture continued into darkness. James S and Dave had to finish their second match indoors.

The Scorecard ..

British Summer Time is here again and we have a summer schedule. The main change is that the Wednesday club session will start at 6pm.

Other things to note is that league matches happen on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, although the teams will be playing away half the time, and that mens practice will, matches permitting, happen on Thursday evenings.

P and D League Results and Match Reports 2024

Welcome to the 2024 league season ! Come to this page for updates of the points and links to match reports. Also use this page to work out whether our courts are needed for league matches on any particular Monday, Tuesday or Thursday.

The league tables are on the P and D website

Mens A

Players – Dave Bate (DB), Chris King (CK), James Sargent (JS), James Driscoll (JD), Mark Skerton (MS), Jamie Johnston (JJ), Steve Maller (SM), Tim Randell (TR), Ben Bravey BB

Day	Date	Fixture		Players	PTLC Points	Opp’n Points
Wed	8th May	Devonshire C	Away	DB, CK JS, JD	58	43
Mon	13th May	Tavistock C	Home	CK, JD DB,MS	62	28
Thu	23rd May	Ivybridge C	Away	DB, SM JD, JJ	68	20
Mon	3rd June	Saltash A	Away	TR,CK DB,JD	68	14
Mon	10th June	Mannamead C	Home	DB,JS CK, JD	64	34
Mon	17th June	Devonshire C	Home	TR,JS DB,BB	37	50
Mon	1st July	Tavistock C	Away	TR,CK DB,JJ	72	21
Thur	18th July *	Ivybridge C	Home	TR,SM DB,JD	62	18
Mon	22nd July	Saltash A	Home	CK,DB TR,JD	72	11
Wed	31st July	Mannamead C	Away	TR,CK DB,JJ	72	18

* Ivbridge home match rescheduled after Monday 8th rained off.

Mens B

Players – Brian Morgan (BM), Jack Morgan (JM), Maurice Sebastien (MS), David Hayman (DH), Ian Cload (IC), Peter Etchells (PE), Ian Shannon (IS), Douglas Langford (DL), Mark Skerton (MSk), Jamie Johnson (JJ), Adam Clynch (AC)

Day	Date	Fixture		Players	PTLC Points	Opp’n Points
Wed	15th May	Plympton C	Away	BM, JM MS, DH	37	57
Thu	23rd May	Menheniot B	Away	BM, JM MS, IC	15	72
Thu	6th June	Tavistock F	Home	BM, JM MS, PE	72	23
Thu	13th June	* St Budeaux D	Home	BM,JM MS, PE	26	69
Thu	4th July	Plympton C	Home	MS, IS DH, DL	16	72
Thu	11th July	Menheniot B	Home	JJ, MSk DL, AC	24	63
Sun	21st July	Tavistock F	Away	JJ, MS BM, JM	68	14
Sun	28th July	St Budeaux D	Away	MS, MSk PE, DL	29	67

* – St Budeaux 13th June, rain. Rescheduled and played on 27th June.

Ladies

Players – Jess Randell (JR), Nicky Slight (NS), Vicky Roberts (VR), Debbie Bauckham (DB), Jane Williams (JW), Karen Johnstone (KJ), Dylys Bradshaw (DyB)

Day	Date	Fixture		Players	PTLC Points	Opp’n Points
Tue	7th May	Tavistock C	Home	NS, VR JW, DB	25	64
Sun	12th May	Tavistock D	Away	JR, NS VR, JW	48	41
Mon	20th May	Saltash A	Away	JR, NS VR, KJ	46	41
Tue	4th June (+)	Looe B	Home	JR, NS VR, DB	47	35
Tue	11th June	Plympton D	Home	JR, NS JW, KJ	52	35
Wed	19th June	Tavistock C	Away	JR,NS DB,VR	45	38
Tue	2nd July	Tavistock D	Home	NS, JW VR, KJ	42	51
Tue	9th July	Saltash A	Home	JR, DyB JW, DB	46	42
Thu	25th July	Looe B	Away	JR,VR NS, KJ	64	28
Wed	31st July	Plympton D	Away	NS,VR JR,JW	51	45

+ Looe match of 4th June rearranged with kind agreement of Looe to 11th May

Here are the P + D league rules for 2024 (Opens in a new window.)

Name Jane Williams

Contact 07969 063486

Email welfareofficer@plymstocktennis.org.uk

About Me :

I have been a member of Plymstock LTC for around 5 years now and got back into tennis after playing at school and joined the clubs Rusty Racket Program.
I currently work part time for Devon & Cornwall Police but was previously with Lloyds Bank for 35 years.
Safeguarding is an important role and as I have previously worked as a Teaching Assistant, hope this position will enable me to build on the clubs comprehensive policies in place to protect and support all of our club members.

Plymouth University second team contacted Plymstock because they needed some match practice. We were happy to oblige and quickly found out we had enough interest that our two courts would not be enough.

The venue we chose was Central Park which has perfectly adequate courts. Both men and ladies were available from both squads so we could have played mixed doubles. We decided however to play single sex doubles (*) as this would be more suitable for practising for the league matches in the coming season.

* Mostly single sex, on the University mens side was Amelie (hope I’m spelling that right) ably standing in for a man who failed to show.

The weather was good by recent standards. Which is to say that it only rained a bit.

We played all afternoon, through some rain as mentioned, and vaguely kept track of some of the scores. I think, approximately, the men slightly edged their matches for Plymstock and the ladies slightly edged their matches for the University. We’ll call it a draw.

If anyone feels there are too many pictures of the ladies and not enough of the men that is because your humble correspondant and photographer was also playing in the mens side and this complicates things.

Behind Nicky you can just make out Chris and Mark.

For the 2024 season we have decided to enter a ladies team as per last year and, this year, two mens teams. The mens A team will play home matches on Monday evenings. The Ladies on Tuesday evenings. The mens B team will play home matches on Thursday evenings. There will be a mens practice session, on either Thursday or Friday evenings, the details have yet to be finalised.

The new match secretary for 2024 will be James Driscoll. Wish him well !

The fixtures list is yet to be worked out. In fact we don’t even know which divisions the men will be in. The A team might or might not be promoted to division 3. We’ll find out after the P and D AGM on the 13th March. The B team, if allowed into the league, will be in the lowest division, we do not yet know how many divisions there will be.

What we do know is which weeks are set aside for fixtures. They are as follows :

W/C MAY 5, 12, 19
W/C JUNE 2, 9, 16
W/C JUNE 30, JULY 7
W/C JULY 14 FREE
W/C JULY 21, 28

This Thursday (8th Feb) there will be a group coaching session for adults. All members welcome. The cost will be £5 per hour. Start time 2pm at the club.
Roger Froud will be taking charge. We hope that this becomes a regular feature on the weekly schedule.