A playing ladder is where you sign up to a list of players.
You can challenge another player to a match and if you win you move up the list.
In this way you end up surrounded by people who are a similar standard to you.
Elmwood have a singles playing ladder for juniors, men & ladies.
Click on the link http://www.ropeyladder.com/ladder.php?id=1481
From November 2008 the LTA INSIST that you need to have a BTM number.
The number of Wimbledon tickets the club are allocated is by the number of BTM members we have signed up.
If you play for a team you must have a BTM number.
How to be a British Tennis Member:
1. Click on the link https://www2.lta.org.uk/Membership/Join/
2. Click on the REGISTER button under the New Users section.
3. Fill in your details and click NEXT.
4. Click on the CONTINUE button when prompted to create a new account.
5. Fill in your details and click NEXT.
6. Confirm your ethnic origin and click NEXT.
7. Choose MIDDLESEX as your County and ELMWOOD LAWN TENNIS CLUB as your club and click NEXT.
8. Choose a username and Password and click NEXT.
9. Scroll down and accept the terms and conditions and and click NEXT.
Congratulations you are now a BTM! Make a note of your BTM Number.
The floodlights have fully tested and commissioned.
They work by a coin token which you slot into the meters (to right-hand side at the top). The meters are located in the light-grey boxes next to the Trainers hut.
The meter boxes will be unlocked, but please make sure the lids are closed to protect the meters from the worst of the English weather.
The tokens will be on sale at the bar on a Friday evening (19:30 – 22:00) so plan ahead!
Each token will last for 30-minutes and cost £2.00 – so it costs £4.00/hour. We have to set a cost that covers the electricity, but also be sufficient to replace bulbs, etc. and eventually the whole installation in 20-years time!
There is a short period at the start while the lights “warm up”. There is a “protection circuit” that helps to maintain the life of each of the light bulbs, so if you try to turn them on immediately after they have gone off there may be a short period needed for them to “re-set”. So we suggest that if you are keen to “continue play” immediately after someone else has finished playing, that you “feed the meter” before the lights go out, so that there is no interruption in the lighting.
5-minutes before the lights are due to go out you are warned by the red/ green lights on the posts by the club-house fence coming on. There is no audible warning, but this would be a sensible time for the next players to feed the meter to enable continuation of play with no interruption to the lights.
The lights will automatically go off at 22:00 regardless of if there is any time left on the meter. It is therefore obviously helpful and somewhat “socially responsible” for players to start their floodlit playing time slots “on the hour” or “on the half hour”. Otherwise the last players for that evening could end up paying for 30 minutes and only getting 12 minutes because someone started playing at twelve minutes to six that evening. Please remember, one day it could be you!
The lights will be switched on at the club’s expense on a Friday evening – as this is a general turn-up & play club night.