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All players are expected to adhere to these Court Booking Rules out of respect for all Tennis Club Members

1. Pre Booking of Courts

Courts can only be pre-booked by the Committee and this will only be done in special circumstances. Notice will be given to members by e-mail and/or posting the details on the Club website. Examples of pre booking instances are as follows:

League Fixtures - Summer / Winter / Mixed / Senior / Floodlit / Fingal / Junior

Club Competitions - Summer Championships Final Rounds/ Ladies / Men's / Mixed Shield Finals / Christensen Cup

Social Tournaments - American Tournaments / Alchemy Cup / Junior festival / Club Invitational Matches

Coaching - Squad Coaching for Leagues / Junior Coaching

Ladies Wednesday morning tournament

2. Priority on Courts

The Committee can, with advance notice to members via email, apply priority to court usage. This will only be done in special circumstances such as at the latter stages of club competitions where there is pressure to complete matches. In practice, if the Committee has advised that a competition has priority then participants in that competition go to the top of the queue of those waiting on courts. Players already on court are not impacted; they can still complete their matches in the normal fashion as priority only applies to those waiting.

3. Court Access and the Tennis Book

(a) Intending players must make an entry in the Tennis Book, located at the PSLC reception, before going on court. 

(b) All participants who intend using the court must be present at reception before an entry in the book is made. 

(c) Details to be entered in the book are:

Name of each participant, initial and surname are minimum requirements.

The number of the court to be used

The nature of the match as follows:

F = friendly

RR = round robin

CC = club championship

SHIELD = Portmarnock Shield

LADD = Ladder Challenge

The starting time

(d) Players who are on a court and have not made an entry in the Tennis Book have no playing rights and can be asked to vacate the court if others are waiting. 

(e) If there are no free courts the entry goes to the bottom of the queue when the last participant arrives at reception. Only the names of the participants and the word waiting should be written in the book. A court number should not be entered as this may not be the first court to come free. 

(f) Participants who are waiting must always take the next available court.

(g) Participants who are waiting must remain on the PSLC premises, must be aware when the next available court is freed up and must be ready to take it.

(h) The duration of a match is 1 hour unless:

(i) there are no participants waiting on a court or

(ii) it is a competitive match which the Committee has deemed as being exempt from the 1 hour rule, such as League / Championship / Shield, etc.

(i) The entry in the Tennis Book must match with the participants actually playing on court. Therefore, participants cannot join a game in progress without making a new entry in the Tennis Book. For example, if 2 players are on court signed in to play singles and 2 other participants subsequently arrive and all 4 decide to play doubles, and there are other waiting entries in the Tennis Book, the 2 players on court must vacate and make a waiting entry in the Tennis Book for all 4 participants, after the last entry for other members signed into the book as waiting.

(j) Participants entitled to play next should only approach the back of the court when the previous groups playing time is up.

4. Court Charges

(a) For Tennis club members there is no charge for using the courts except for the use of the floodlights, which is payable at the PSLC reception (currently €4.00 per hour).

(b) PSLC member only rate - €12 per person per hour to be paid to PSLC reception before a court can be taken.

PSLC junior member only rate - €5 per person per hour to be paid to PSLC reception before a court can be taken.

Non PSLC member rate - €15 per hour but only available Mon - Fri 9.00 - 17.00

5. Court Access for Junior Members

(a) Junior Members (up to 14 years of age) are entitled to use the courts up to 7.00 pm each day. If however, there are no Adult Members waiting to play, Junior Members may play on past 7.00 pm until such time as an Adult Member requires the court. At this point they should vacate the court immediately regardless of whether they are in the middle of a match or not.

(b) Junior Members playing league on behalf the club may play past 7.00 pm with an Adult Member or fellow league player.