PRESIDENT’S DAY starts promptly at 2 pm this Sunday and the theme for the day is the Olympics/Paralympics with dress code being the colours of the Olympic logo as shown below.  Prior to that at 1.30 all who played in any of this year’s Dacorum Charity Shield matches are asked to come to the club for a celebratory photo in club shirts/whites with the Shield, which is now in our possession!!

The weather looks mainly good for the last day of the playing season and  ALL Players on the list play plus the first two reserves (Joan Luther & Corrine Little).
It will be run as a gala style event with twelve teams of triples all playing three matches of 50 minutes. All the teams will be named after Olympic events so if you fancy coming as a gymnast, rower, cyclist, sailor etc that would also be very welcome (and very funny). We also have a few questions based on this years events in Rio so swat up and blind us with your knowledge.

Food is £6 per head and there will be passes for the main car park (don’t forget there is an Open Day at the Tennis Club)

Despite Berkhamsted losing two of their three friendly matches this week there was great success for Kevin Clarke and David Brown when they  bounced back from disappointment in the Watford & District Triples final to win the Pairs Championship in the afternoon. They defeated the father and son pair of David and Dylan Martin from Garston 23-6 in an entertaining and good humoured match. Earlier that week David Martin had reached the National Singles semi-finals at Leamington and won the District Singles before playing the pairs final.

Images of some of the W&D action can be viewed here

In the first of the Friendly matches against Chalfont St. Giles Berkhamsted lost by 82 shots to 86; a top rink was achieved by Luke Swan, Anne Cutting and Alan Jones. A recovery was made when Berkhamsted beat Aylesbury Town by 65 shots 59 with a top rink of Ray Kessler, Del Root and Jackie Cormack. However the euphoria was short lived, in the other match against St. Albans, which was stopped at 16 ends through heavy rain, resulted in a loss  by 60 shots to 67 despite the effort of the top rink of Luke Swan, John Bell, Anne Cutting and Tom Presland.