An EGM of Tennis Ireland CLG was held on Saturday 8th December at the Croke Park Hotel, Dublin for the purposes of electing a President - Elect and 3 Board Members. Mr Shane Cooke, a former President of the Munster Branch and current member of the...
New Fed Cup Captain Announced Tennis Ireland today announced the appointment of John McGahon as the new Irish Fed Cup Non-Playing Captain. The appointment will take effect immediately and John’s first tie in charge will be the Group III campaign which will commence in 2019. John succeeds...
Shared Access Senior National Indoor Senior Championships The event sponsored again this year by Shared Access and hosted in David Lloyd Riverview brings together some of the best players in Ireland for four days of brilliant tennis. Entry is open HERE for the 2019 Shared Access Senior...
2017/2018 saw the implementation of a 16-month transition Calendar which comes to an end on the 31st of December 2018. Transition points were in place at the end of 2017 to allow this 16-month Calendar to be successful, there will be no transition points this year. The 2019...
Shared Access National Indoor Junior Championships We are proud to announce that the Shared Access National Indoor Junior Championships will take place in Westwood Leopardstown, Dublin from the 27th to the 30th of December 2018. As the last tournament of the year it will serve as a...
On the 25th October, Castlebar Tennis Club, with the sponsorship of McGraths Waste Management has become the first tennis club in the Connacht to launch their ‘think green’ initiative. Our ultimate goal is to eliminate all single use plastics from the tennis club and in...
Winter Matchplay Rules 2018 Winter National Matchplay will take place on Sat 1st -Sun 2nd December 2018. u12 in Galway LTC and u14, 16 and 18 in Westwood Lepoardstown. Entry is open HERE. The first 12 positions will be offered to the top 12 players nationally ranked according to...
Astonishing achievement by Irish Blind Tennis player. Brian Lenehan from the Windsor TC and CIYMS in Belfast, who took up Blind Tennis less than two years ago, yesterday pulled off a shock result to take the British Blind Tennis Championships (B2) title in Loughborough yesterday. He...
The inaugural National Blind and Visually Impaired Championships took place on Sunday 14th October at the Ozone Indoor Tennis Arena in Belfast. Twenty players took part from all across Ireland with the biggest contingents from North and South Dublin under the leadership of Sarah O’Donohoe...
The Board of Tennis Ireland has welcomed the announcement by Ministers for Transport, Tourism & Sport Shane Ross & Brendan Griffin, which confirmed a 13% increase in investment in Irish sport in the 2019 Budget. The Ministers announced that the budget for sport in 2019 will...
Tennis Ireland, along with ATP and ITF Gold Badge Umpire Fergus Murphy will be running an Umpire's Course in October & November. The short 90-minute course will provide a great insight in to the work of an umpire, lines judge and court supervisor. It also provides...
The Olympic Federation of Ireland has named a squad of 16 athletes from 9 sports, to compete at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in October in Buenos Aires. Competition runs from October 6 to October 18 featuring over 4,000 athletes and over 32 sports. Georgia Drummy has been...
Massive congratulations to June Ann Byrne who on Friday last became a World Champion. With her partner Wil Sevenstern, June Ann captured the ITF World Individual Championship WD85 title. To make the win even more impressive they claimed victories over the No.1 seeds in the...
Good luck to the Irish players who have travelled this week to Croatia to compete for Ireland in the ITF Super-Seniors World Team Championships and World Individual Championships. Results as they come in, can be found by clicking on the individual events below. ITF Super-Seniors Kitty Godfree...
Tennis Ireland would like to announce that, Yvonne Doyle has informed the Board of Tennis Ireland of her intention to step down as the non-Playing Captain of the Irish Fed Cup team. Ms. Doyle, who played in 41 ties for Ireland in Fed Cup and received...
