The best club in the world.....

http://countryclubaixois.com/tennis-club/

I just realised that this club is organising a challenger every year. While I was boarding student in Aix en provence, I used to have lunch in this club during the spring season. The food was excellent, they had swimming pool and the owners' son was a friend of mine. The surrounding was beautiful and every now and then we had French international stars popping up for a game. I was not playing there at the time unfortunately but I was following the FO from their bar/restaurant with 10s of members.

Dream location and dream provencial life style for the owners of this club. The son is probably the owner now.....unless they have sold since. I visited that place on a daily basis in 1983/84.

Yesterday Golubev was playing, there....lucky him.

Oooooh lucky you T...tennis is such a natural sport in France, and you got to enjoy it fully from a young age!  

While your feet were gliding across that beautiful clay, mine were trudging & toiling in endless corn and pea fields of my grandparents' farm working for a shoe-string summer holiday, dreaming of winning Wimbledon one day...

Must be why I can't get enough of it now!

The club indeed is gorgeous, I'll make it there one day

Are they interested in twinning with a nice club from Berkshire ?

These are the courts I sighed past so many times...the over the seven hills and seas ones...I'm going to Belgrade in June and hope to finally make it and swing my Wilson there!



They have even made it to the Pin it Dream tennis courts page!

https://uk.pinterest.com/tenniswarehouse/dream-tennis-courts/

There are so many beautiful places to play tennis, this one is in my top five to go to:

http://smtp.oneoffplaces.co.uk/Europe/England/Devon/fingals.aspx

noleisthebest wrote:These are the courts I sighed past so many times...the over the seven hills and seas ones...I'm going to Belgrade in June and hope to finally make it and swing my Wilson there!



They have even made it to the Pin it Dream tennis courts page!

https://uk.pinterest.com/tenniswarehouse/dream-tennis-courts/

Hopefully there are no birds in those trees .. much better than the courts in some challenger venues actually Nitb, enjoy your adventures

noleisthebest wrote:Oooooh lucky you T...tennis is such a natural sport in France, and you got to enjoy it fully from a young age!  

While your feet were gliding across that beautiful clay, mine were trudging & toiling in endless corn and pea fields of my grandparents' farm working for a shoe-string summer holiday, dreaming of winning Wimbledon one day...

Must be why I can't get enough of it now!

The club indeed is gorgeous, I'll make it there one day

Are they interested in twinning with a nice club from Berkshire ?

Worth asking. If you have grass courts you may have a chance. I was in Surbiton for a surrey match last Sunday and they are organising a tournament there. Beautiful grass and setting and have had Tsonga and other champs winning there in the past. The qualif are free and I will probably go this year. I advised them to invite Rublev!

My home club has one grass court! Only court of it's kind in area!


Overall view:
http://www.danielisland.com/the-club/park-club/

and this is the Family Cup Facility down the street that the whole community can be members-  clay courts, and our stadium that hosts the WTA tourney I am on board of.

truffin1 wrote:
My home club has one grass court! Only court of it's kind in area!


Overall view:
http://www.danielisland.com/the-club/park-club/

That looks like a very nice club, Truffin!

Love the lady at the net and her combatitive ready to volley with the racquet held up high position.
We have one like that in oir club...looks quite funny!

Yeah it's a beautiful place.. I can play outdoors every month of the year basically.  Island off of Charleston SC...    Charleston which includes our area was named #1 tennis town in USA by USTA a few years ago!

Yes nice Truff.....though the guy doing the lines was drunk, wasn't he? We have the same in our club.....our gardner can't draw a straight line.

Tenez wrote:
Worth asking. If you have grass courts you may have a chance. I was in Surbiton for a surrey match last Sunday and they are organising a tournament there. Beautiful grass and setting and have had Tsonga and other champs winning there in the past. The qualif are free and I will probably go this year. I advised them to invite Rublev!

Cool!
I only just saw this sentence now
I'll probably be in Belgrade that week, but am going to go to watch qualies for Wimby in Roehampton this year also free entrance.

Didn't get any tickets both in general and club ballot...AGAIN!

Planning to go on first Tuesday to see Fed, and then...even may camp for QFs or SF, I've got to do it before I die!

I just had a look at the rankings below 128 to see who's likely to be playing qualies for Wimbledon, and had a shock...guess who's at 157?

noleisthebest wrote:I just had a look at the rankings below 128 to see who's likely to be playing qualies for Wimbledon, and had a shock...guess who's at 157?

Who ?

Kim Jong-Un wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:I just had a look at the rankings below 128 to see who's likely to be playing qualies for Wimbledon, and had a shock...guess who's at 157?

Who ?

Yes, amazing! Almagro is going down the pan.

Must be a mistake....he was quite high up recently.

I don't know, I thought it was very strange, I don't remember him being injured...

He was injured for quite a while. He missed 3 of the 4 2014 slams and retired in the first round at the FO.