Thornhill Tennis Club

Thornhill Tennis club is a popular tennis club located about two miles from the centre of Dewsbury.

With over 30 members of all ages and abilities we have an active social tennis programme and for the more competitive members we have a men’s teams within the Huddersfield Tennis League.

We have three all weather tarmac courts and floodlights which were installed during April 2010

Our courts were also resurfaced and repainted for the 2013 season.

Also visit : https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/ThornhillTennisClub

A potted history of Thornhill Tennis Club founding, development and future aims Founding:

The earliest newspaper reports of Thornhill Cricket Club matches can be found from 1887 when the club moved to their present grounds at The Combs. There are even reports in that year of a ladies cricket match being played. In 1889 the club underwent the first of its major name changes to Thornhill Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club when tennis was first introduced. It appears tennis did not survive very long as the club changed its name to its current Thornhill Cricket and Bowling Club in 1909 when crown green bowling became part of the club.

Development:

Through the last 20 years the club has funded a number of developments to the facilities including floodlights, a club house, a practice wall, landscaping and a patio area.

We have developed and improved the standard of tennis played. We encourage social tennis where anybody is welcome to join in.

We are proud at the way we have developed and encouraged our junior members in particular and we now have two national champions in their age groups.

Future Aims:

We need to continue to encourage, develop, support and keep our junior members and maintain a strong presence of young players who should be seen as the future and continuing success of the tennis club.

From a practical point of view we see that a realistic way of helping us to achieve this and encourage full usage of the courts is by providing improved facilities which includes floodlights.

More Details about the tennis club can be found on : https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/ThornhillTennisClub