Important Request to ALL MEMBERS

Dear Member,

The Tennis Committee at Clarkston hope you had a wonderful time over the festive period and wish you all the best for the year ahead. We appreciate that everyone is busy at this time of year with all our young ones returning to school and others returning to work after the holiday period. But, we would ask you to take a moment to read this important notice and action the request below.

Many of you will already have received an email directly from British Tennis addressed to yourself or for a junior or mini member in your household. It will have requested that you to consider opting in to the Wimbledon Ballot for 2015.

This is a new system for 2015. In the past, the club has received its allocation of tickets based on the number of BTMs we have. These are British Tennis Members and this is the unique number allocated to you by the LTA when you joined Clarkston.

However, the LTA have decided to ask individual members to opt in through their online system. We are requesting that ALL members of the club OPT IN to the Wimbledon Ballot.  By agreeing to opt in it does NOT mean you will be offered tickets whether you want them or not; what it does mean is Clarkston's allocation of tickets will be larger and more of our members will have the wonderful opportunity of attending the Finals in June at SW19.

The deadline for opting in is January 31st. The number of tickets that our club is allocated will be decided after the deadline. The more opt-ins - the more tickets we are able to distribute to our members. These tickets are very much sought after and we would appreciate your support in maximizing the number.

If you have not yet processed your opt-in please go to this link and after a few clicks you will have contributed to our ticket allocation:

http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/Wimbledon/Ballots/

If you have any queries please get in touch. Many thanks in advance on behalf of all at the club!

Regards,

Craig Beaton
Tennis Captain