Teams

Pit Farm runs a number of men’s, ladies and mixed teams in the Chaucer, Surrey, Woking , National and Peugeot Leagues.  Representing Pit Farm in the teams gives members the opportunity of playing a high standard of tennis against a variety of tennis clubs, giving us the chance of pitting our skills against others on a number of different court surfaces.

Most Surrey and Chaucer matches are played on Sunday mornings with some on Saturday mornings. All the veteran matches in both Surrey and Chaucer leagues are played mid-week. Woking league matches are played on Saturday mornings in the Winter league and mid-week evenings in the Summer league.  For home matches, we tend to commence at 11a.m. at the latest so as not to impact too greatly on club afternoons. 

Whilst competitive, the overriding experience of our teams in these leagues is that the level of sporting behaviour and etiquette is high.  You are never absolutely sure who you are going to play up against, as was experienced by our men’s first team when playing Oxshott 1^st team at home on 30^th September 2007.  Oxshott’s team included none other than Jeremy Bates and Roger Draper (Chief Executive of the LTA).  Pictured below are Pit Farm’s Tom Paltridge and Paul Carter, alongside Jeremy Bates and his playing partner Adrian Buckland.   All credit to Tom and Paul, as they managed to get many games on the scoreboard in going down 6-3, 6-2. 

If you are interested in playing matches and representing Pit Farm in doing so, the best way to go about it is playing club tennis on Tuesdays, Saturdays, Thursdays and Sundays and getting yourself known to the team captains, as listed below.  There are also some ad hoc knockout tournaments – for example the Chaucer Winter Tournament.  More information on these can be found on the Chaucer League web-site or from Richard Clarke, who is the League Chairman.

Team Captains

Our Team Captains for 2008 are as follows:

Men

Men’s 1^st Team, Chaucer League               Peter Gissel

Men’s 1^st Team, Surrey League                  Tim Campbell

Men’s 2^nd Team, Chaucer League              Andrew Mundell

Men’s 2^nd Team, Surrey League                 Andrew Mundell

Men’s 3^rd Team, Chaucer League               Frank Beiboer

Men’s 3^rd Team, Surrey League                  Steve Knight

Men’s Veterans Team, Over 45                   Andrew Mundell

Men’s Veterans Team, Over 55                   Keith Walker

Men’s National League                                 Tony Boyle

Ladies

Ladies 1^st Team, Chaucer League              Ruth Iles

Ladies 1^st Team, Surrey League                 Caroline Hardy

Ladies 2^nd Team, Surrey League                 Nicki Seys

Ladies 3^rd Team, Surrey League                  Gillian Blackburn

Ladies Veterans Team, Over 50                   Shirley Alexander

Ladies Mid Week Surrey League                  Alex Orr

Ladies 1^st Team, Woking League                Sarah Iafrate

Ladies 2^nd Team, Woking League               Anne Collins

Mixed

Mixed 1^st Team, Chaucer League               Tracey Manasseh

Mixed 2^nd team, Chaucer League                Gillian Blackburn

Mixed, Peugeot League                                J Coto

Mixed Veteran team, Chaucer League        Shirley Alexander