Tennis and Pickleball Club in Sanderstead

AGM Date Change

We hold Pickleball Social Sessions on

Tuesdays 5.30pm to 7.30pm.

Thursdays 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

Sundays 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

Your first session is free, then membership is £25.00 for 5 sessions or £120 unlimited club sessions and use of available courts outside of club sessions with other members. See membership page for full details.

On winter Tuesday evenings, members are requested to contribute an extra £2.50 for floodlights.

It doesn't matter what your standard is or if you know the rules. Just come and join the fun and fresh air playing Pickleball.

PICKLEBALL AT SVLTC

Head coach, Phil Vivian, is a qualified Pickleball coach and is available for individual and group coaching sessions.

Courts 3 and 4 are dual purpose Pickleball and Tennis courts.

A Pickleball membership is available, which allows you to play Pickleball in your own time, outside of club group tennis sessions, with other Pickleball members or for those with a family membership.

To join the club click here Membership

Pickleball League 2025

An update from Phil:

From April 2025 I am planning on setting up a Pickleball League (PICKLEAGUE) for those of you looking for a bit of competition at the club.

PICKLEAGUE Rules are simple:

I will post dates and times of each session at the club.
First 8 players to respond will be playing on that date provided.
Doubles format. 1st round is Pair A v Pair B. Pair C v Pair D. Then winners play each other and losers do the same in the 2nd round. 3rd round you all play the pair you have not played (like the ATP Finals)
Matches are 1st to 10 points. Send all scores to the Pickleballers group chat. Every point counts 10-6 or 10-9 etc.
Players can enter as many or as little of these league sessions as they want.
I will post different dates times each month depending on popularity of the Pickleague.
Top 4 players at the end will play off in a Champions Final for a trophy.

If you're interested in participating, please get in contact (details here).

Regards,
Phil

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WHAT IS PICKLEBALL?

Fast becoming one of the most popular racket sports in the world, Pickleball brings together some of the best elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis, into a fun and exciting game for people of all ages and abilities.

Pickleball is a great game for all ages – it is based more on control and reactions rather than just power and as it’s on a smaller court, doubles doesn’t require as much movement as other sports.

Pickleball was founded in 1965 by Joel Prichard in Washington. There are two potential stories for how the sport got its name. The first is that the sport takes its name from the term ‘pickle boat’ which is used to describe a crew of rowers that have been put together at random for a race. Joel’s wife, Joan who was a keen rower, said the sport reminded her of a pickle boat because it’s played by random groups of people who were often leftover from other sports.

The other story comes from the Pritchard’s neighbours, who claimed it was named after their family dog ‘Pickles’. The dog would apparently run across the garden with a Wiffle ball (similar to a pickleball) and play with it, hence the sport was named after the dog.

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Pickleball League 2025

Fun tennis and pickleball local to Sanderstead, Hamsey Green, Selsdon and Warlingham.