The Centenary Tennis Clubs Association (CTC) held its 21st Annual General Meeting in Lausanne on Saturday November 18nd, 2017.
The main item of the agenda of the Meeting was the elections for the Committee of Management for the period 2017-2020, at which current President Juan Maria Tintoré of the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899 was re-elected to serve a further term.
He will be joined on the committee by founder club representatives Lars Myhrman (Kung LTK), Guido Schultz (LTTC Rot-Weiss Berlin), Donald Macloed (Cumberland LTC) and Eric Rogers (Tennis Club Geneve), who will serve as CTC Treasurer. The member club representatives will be CTC Vice-President Petr Simunek (I. Cesky LTK), Tom Hamilton (Fitzwilliam LTC), Bernard Dupouy (Villa Primrose) and Pedro Navedo (Real Sociedad de Tenis la Magdalena).
In addition, the Committee of Management co-opted two additional members to serve the Committee for the same term; Ota Ungerman (Royal Leopold Club) and Jorge Esponda (TC Argentino).
Five new clubs were accepted as members of the Association; Montecarlo Country Club (Monaco), Northern Tennis Club Didsbury (Great Britain), Lawn Tennis Club Festina (Netherlands), America Tennis Club (Colombia), and Seattle Tennis Club (United States). This brings the total number of member clubs to a new record high of 71.
The Assembly heard details of the organisation’s activities in 2017, including the successful staging of the CTC Senior Winners’ Group in Athens, and the first event of the Association in Ecuador, due to be hosted by Guayaquil Tennis Club next December.
Looking ahead, 2018 looks set to be another year of growth, with member clubs including West Side Tennis Club (USA), Carrickmines (Ireland), I.CLTK Prague (Czech Republic), Royal Leopold (Belgium), Roehampton (Great Britain) RCTB-1899 (Spain) and Edgbaston Priory (Great Britain) amongst those to have already committed to staging events.
The CTC is an umbrella group of clubs that are more than 100 years old, including some of the prestigious and best-known clubs in the sport. Initially founded by eight members as a pan-European association, the organisation now has an extensive and truly global membership and is affiliated to Tennis Europe and recognised by the sport’s governing body, the International Tennis Federation. The organisation’s principal sponsor is EFG International private bank. For further information, please visit www.centenarytennisclubs.org.
