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History of Ormskirk Tennis Club

This is your chance to add to the illustrious history of Ormskirk Tennis Club. Have you got any early photos that you'd like to see on the Club's web site? They can be of people, club member's exploits, the club's buildings and facilities, or anything else of interest.

Copies of the audio / visual presentation, complete with backing track, played at the Centenary Dinner at Edge Hill College in July 2005 are still available on DVD thanks to Roger Bell.

Packaged in a DVD case along with a presentational cover, the DVD runs for over 10 minutes and includes over 150 images as well as video clips from the old Greetby Hill site as well as the opening of the new courts at County Road. If you have been associated with Ormskirk Tennis Club for any time up to 2005, it is likely that you will feature on the DVD.

You can order a copy for £3 by contacting the club

Copies of the book History of Ormskirk Tennis Club - The First 100 Years are also available. To purchase a copy please contact our treasurer.

If you would like to make additions to this section of the website please write to The Editor. All information is of interest and welcomed.

History of the Club Trophies

Ormskirk Tennis Club has a long history of tournament play - the Rydal Trophy was first contested in 1934. A full list of winners of this prestigious trophy and all club champions is avaliable online.

Club players who went on to make it big

Barry Cowan was a junior member of Ormskirk Tennis Club in the 1980s and went on to play the reigning Wimbledon champion, Pete Sampras, in the second round of the 2001 Championships.

Cowan was knocked out in the second round of the Wimbledon 2002 Championships by Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador, who went on to reach the quarter-finals.

Links:
Barry does Britain proud
Sampras struggles past Cowan

History of the Club site

This is an aerial photograph of Ormskirk from the west of the town taken in the early 1960s. The present-day Club site is not shown although you can make out the tennis courts in Coronation Park and the former gasworks site on which Morrison's supermarket is built. See the enlarged photo to get a better look.

Honorary Life Members

Hilary BellOrmskirk Tennis Club has awarded seven people with honorary life membership.

1966  Alice Entwistle
1968  Stan Robinson
1971  Les Craig
1984  Kath Spurr
1989  Beryl Murray
1994  Jack Wilford
2001  Hilary Bell