I am delighted to announce that on 3rd July PHTC received an award for our Extension from The Sussex Heritage Trust under the ‘Public & Community’ category. David Fortune and I were kindly invited by Savills to attend the Ceremony. The award was in the form of a plaque and certificate, presented to us by…
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David Bevan-Thomas
I am delighted to announce that David Bevan-Thomas has been appointed an Honorary Life Member. This is in recognition of all the support that he has given the Club since he joined over 40 years ago and his impressive record in various national tournaments. Many years ago he founded the Two Generations Tournament which is…
Field Trophy Final – PHTC pipped by Seacourt!
SEACOURT TRIUMPH IN FIELD TROPHY 3/2 Seacourt’s youthful 2nd pairing of William Flynn and Henry Liddington proved too strong and agile for Petworth’s experienced Charles Fuente and Andrew Page (6/2, 6/2) who struggled to find the necessary consistency to unsettle their opponents. Charlie Braham has been struggling with arthritis in his playing hand which was…
Secretary’s Cup Handicap Doubles 2019
The Secretary’s Cup is such a wonderful format with players of all handicaps being paired up at random. This year we had handicaps ranging from 32 to 64. All of the group matches were incredibly close and the 5 pair play off group on the Sunday morning went down to the last match to decide…
PHTC Invitation Doubles Tournament in brief!
What a feast of tennis we had last week! 32 pairs, 860 games, 72 sets, two markers and over 46 hours of play from Wednesday to Sunday and pairs ranging from handicap 12.6 to 60.3 there were all standards taking part. With 3 out of the 4 pairs in each group progressing through to the…
Honorary Membership Secretary
A. LUCY HUTCHINSON This is to announce that Lucy Hutchinson has decided to step down as Hon Membership Secretary at the end of the year after 10 years in that role, and she will be retiring from the Board at that date. On behalf of all members I would like to extend my enormous thanks…