We are very proud to announce that we have been voted tennis club of the year in Lancashire. George  accepted the award on behalf of the club at the recent Tennis Lancashire Awards which were held at the Reebok stadium, Bolton. It marked the culmination of a lot of hard work which has gone on behind the scenes at Palmerston to transform the junior tennis program, attract new members and gain the LTA club mark. A lot of praise should go to George our chairman for helping to change the club mentality and to Dave Simms our club coach who has been in charge of overhauling the coaching set up.

Palmerston had other winners on the night as well, with Tom Kyle picking up his Lancashire singles U14 winners trophy. We also won the U14 Aegon team trophy which Tom picked up on behalf of the team.

A big thanks from everyone at Palmerston Tennis Club to Maureen Wolfe and Peter Igglesdon for their services over the last 25 year in organising our highly successful September doubles tournaments. Peter and Maureen have decided that this years event would be their last and it was fitting that both events were highly successful with 15 doubles pairings in each event. To mark their retirement the committee decided to buy 2 new trophies – the Peter Igglesdon trophy and the Maureen Wolfe Trophy which the competitors will be striving to win next year. We are hoping that Peter and Maureen will be attend the tournaments next year and present the trophies.

Danny Swain & Martin Dalton reclaimed the Palmerston September Men’s Doubles title after coming back from a horrendous start to win the final 3-6 6-1 10-6. This made up for the disappointment of losing last years final to Harry Meehan and Anthony McCarthy.

In the mixed event Andrew Beswick and partner Kim retained their title beating Mike Austin and Dominique in the final.