MLTC Club Notices 02/10/2026
MLTC NEWSLETTER October 2nd 2026
SENIOR NEWS
LADIES’ NEWS
Ladies Senior League
The final week of league matches took place last Sunday, with great results all round, bringing a close to the league group stages. Well done to everyone for the immense hard work put in each week, and a special thank you to our team captains for liaising so effectively in selecting competitive teams and substitutes.
It was an incredibly tough league campaign this year with the standard of tennis exceptionally high across all classes. We are thrilled to announce that we have one team successfully going forward into the playoffs this coming Sunday!
Huge congratulations to Sinead Egan’s Class 6 team on securing their playoff spot: Claire Aherne, Grace Mullany, Marion Davis, Ursula McAdam, Suzanne Broughan, and Sinead, as well as the vital substitutes who stepped up and helped along the way!
The match will be held in Clane Tennis Club, Co. Kildare at 11am on Sunday morning. Supporters welcome! Best of luck!
Ladies O60s League
The final week of 060s league matches took place on Wednesday with Karen Ivory’s Team 2 securing a whopping three-points! A great end to their campaign.
In addition, we are thrilled to announce that Catherine Keane’s Team 1 have succeeded in securing a place in the playoffs/ semi finals of the Class 1 League. Congratulation to Geraldine Speer, Helen Ryan, Karen MacKenna, Pat Cowley, Carol Kelly and Catherine Keane. Thanks also to the subs who played along the way adding valuable points, Adrienne Cusack, Carmel McAlister, Margaret Quinn and Clodagh Murray. Play-offs will be held on Wednesday 21st October.
Ladies Floodlight League
The Floodlight league started this week with three teams competing. Our Class 2 Team, Captained by Olivia Crossan set the pace with a three point win and our other two teams also fought hard and secured points in this early stage of the round-robin matches. Keep up the good work and best of luck next week.
Singles Box Match Competition
Thank you to everyone who signed up for the Singles Box Tournament. We had a great response to this event with 56 singles entries. We hope to deliver competitive meaningful results and help develop our singles players for the 2027 Summer League. All information has been sent to the competitors and we look forward to a great tournament culminating with a prize giving event in mid November. Best of luck to everyone!
MEN’S NEWS
Senior League concluded with First and Second team remaining in class, thanks to Johnny O'Shea and Denis Feighery for their hard work and organisational skills throughout the league.
Congrats to Ciaran Bolger who captained the Third team to the play offs. Their match is away to Sandycove this Sunday (Time to be confirmed), best of luck to the team and squad which included Dermot Hayes, Aaron Duffy, Jonathan Dalton, Daithí Roberts, James Stok, Neil Redmond, Gus Legge, Bill Sadlier, Simon Mathews, Gary Crowley and Mark Aherne.
Floodlight league started on Monday with Team 1 (Captained by Kevin Wylde) having a resounding win against Sandycove, whilst Team 2 lost in a hard away match to Brookfield (Captain Philil Bolger) and Team 3 (Captain Ronan Bolger) had a good win over Shankill. Congrats to up-and-coming young players Sean Carney, Luke Sadlier, Christian O Flynn and Matthew Hegarthy who all featured on Monday night.
Men’s Coaching - Mondays Evenings
Come along to men’s coaching with Stephen O’Shea on Monday at 9pm - courts 2 and 3. Everyone is welcome to give this session a go - the seasoned players, our young lads, and everyone in between. Focus is on doubles play. This session is inclusive, social, fun, and skills orientated.
Queries - ask coach Stephen (0868391472), men’s captain Bill Condon (0879669472), or men’s vice captain Tim Stokes (0862495184)
Men’s morning as normal resumes this Sunday at 10
CARDIO TENNIS
Adrienne’s Cardio Classes start on Thursday 1st October for a term of 6 weeks.
Cardio is a fun, fitness, tennis session / drills with music!
Classes will be at 12 noon for an hour.
Please text Adrienne on if you wish to sign up - All standards welcome!
MEN’S EVENTS
MEN’S MORNING – Sunday Mornings
Resumes at 10am this Sunday. Thanks to this group for facilitating our Men’s league matches.
LADIES SECTION
LADIES MORNING
Ladies’ morning tennis will start at the usual time of 10am next Wednesday.
Mary Denvir will be your host so do come along and enjoy tennis and chat.
CHARITY LEAGUE
Teams have been selected. We will have one Monday League section and three Tuesday Advanced League sections.
Matches will start on 12th and 13th October.
LADIES CHRISTMAS PARTY
Save the Date: Friday 27th November
JUNIOR NEWS
Best of luck to all our league teams playing this weekend:
U10’s home to Clontarf at 4pm on Sat
U12s Deerpark (time and venue tbc)
U14 girls away to Deerpark on Sunday at 3.30pm
U14 boys away to Brookfield at 3.30 Sunday
U18 boys away to Shankill at 5pm Sunday
U18 girls v Celbridge at home @ 5pm
Stars and Stripes
Our u12 Stars and Stripes are through to the cup semi-final. They will be playing away this Saturday at 5pm against Glenageary.
Congratulations to the entire squad for making it this far and wishing them the best of luck this Saturday
Friday Night Friendlies continue!
Courts 1-3 are booked from 5-7pm on Fridays
CLUB NIGHT
Club Night every Thursday at 8pm. Open to all Senior members, all standards – everyone welcome.
Stephen will get things started with some games and coaching tips!
UPDATE FROM STEPHEN
Good to see Monkstown featuring again in the League Playoffs.
The Men’s 3rd team, captained by Ciaran Bolger, play Sandycove 2nds away next Sunday.
The Ladies’ 6th team, captained by Sinead Egan, play Clane 2nds away on Sunday also.
The floodlit league has just started with great 3/0 wins by both the men’s and ladies’1st teams. The men’s 3rd team also had a good 2/1 win.
Good to see a number of our young members playing………Good luck & have a great campaign.
All the best,
Stephen.
MEMBER SURVEY
Reminder!
Please complete the recently emailed member’s survey. This provides us with valuable information to help us plan for the future of the club.
Many thanks to those who have already completed the survey.
Margaret Quinn, President
On behalf of the Executive Committee