NORTH
OXFORD
LAWN TENNIS CLUB

The latest in our series of profiles focuses on someone who works tirelessly behind-the-scenes to ensure that everything about the club looks professional, and that we have a positive brand and identity. As well as playing a whole lot of tennis, he also gives our brain cells a workout a couple of times a year…

For the last of our committee profiles we have a double bill.  Our brilliant Facilities Secretary and our Welfare Officer are a great combination on and off the court, and are an essential part of the club. We’re not sure how we’d manage without them! MIKE AND JANET THOMAS Tell us about your tennis life…

It’s time to meet our newest committee member. She’s someone who enjoys the Banbury Road North facilities on all fronts, being both a tennis and a hockey club member EMILY SMITH Tell us about your tennis life When I was 5, my mum coaxed me into playing tennis with my brother and I loved the…

Tell us about your tennis life My tennis life started at school.  I always loved playing sport and tennis and netball were a big part of my life growing up.  I moved to the United States in my early twenties and, apart from playing occasionally in the summers, I didn’t play much while I was…

After 12 great, successful years of coaching at North Oxford LTC our Head Coach Chris has decided that he would like to pursue other opportunities and explore new challenges.  He, (and Breakpoint Tennis), will no longer be under contract with North Oxford LTC with effect from the end of July 2020. It goes without saying…

Continuing our series of introductions to committee members, here’s a chance to get to know our Vice Chair a little better HANS BAKKER Tell us about your tennis life I never played tennis in Holland as a child – hockey was our main game. I came to London in 1975 but did not take up…

Here is one of the club’s most familiar faces. He’s a coach so would normally be at the club every day, and he has a key role on the committee as Men’s Captain DAVE ROONEY Tell us about your tennis life   Although my mum and her sisters played tennis, as a youngster I was far…

The response to these profiles so far has been very positive. Thank you for taking the time to read them and get in touch. We wanted to introduce Chris Hampton next – our Head Coach and recipient of Oxfordshire LTA’s 2019 Coach of the Year County Award.   CHRIS HAMPTON Tell us about your tennis…

So far our series of Committee profiles have focussed on long-standing club members, but the Committee also has some newer faces. It’s time to meet our new Membership Secretary JENNY JAMES Tell us about your tennis life I didn’t start playing tennis until I was in my 40’s. The school I went to picked the…

Tell us about your tennis life  I’d always enjoyed watching tennis, first on tv and then with trips to Wimbledon, but only started playing in my 30s. It was a case of now or never! I joined the club in 2002 and signed up to rusty rackets to get started. I was quickly hooked and…