A few years ago all our first mens team players left or were injured and so the B team became the A team and we could only reliably field one mens team. Our numbers have now recovered enough such that, this season, we are again fielding two mens teams in the Plymouth and District league. The first match was away to Plympton C. The scores was Plympton 57 – Plymstock 37, shame to lose, but that’s sport.
Mens A keep up winning ways with a 62 – 28 win over Tavistock C at home. Mark and Dave got off to a slow start but made up for it in the second match. Chris and James started well and got better.
Score Plymstock 62 Tavistock 28
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
YOU CAN ALSO REPORT CONCERNS DIRECTLY
Plymouth and Torbay Safeguarding Children Partnership
Contact details : 01752 668000 or email MASH@plymouth.gov.uk.
Plymouth Safeguarding Adults Partnership
Tel 01752 668000 or visit www.plymouth.gov.uk/adult-safeguarding-signposting
Local Authority Designated Officer
Marie Partridge, tel 01752 306340 or email LADO@plymouth.gov.uk.
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.