Mixed Doubles Tennis

**DETAILS** The session is Wednesday 7.00PM till 9.55PM. All 4 courts will be available for games. Players are requested to finish the games by 9.50PM and leave the premises by 9.55PM. All levels are welcome. We pride our sessions that everyone plays with everyone to keep it a friendly and fun session. We also understand that there is a need for being competitive and we welcome that also. **Registration and Payment:** Please click the link below to our new booking system. https://tbc.shuttlestats.app/sessions £14 per session. **Important information** Notes to be aware of that when warming up please don't use the game shuttle and please return the old shuttle for the new shuttles Parking is available for free onsite There is a water fountain so please bring a bottle to fill u If you have any questions please contact us. Also we love to hear your views, so please drop us a line with your thoughts and suggestions in message **Photographs / Videos** As a club from time to time we post clips, pictures on social media to promote the club. We are also aware that players would like to video themselves to analyse their games. So if you have any concerns over that, please bring it to the host's attention, so that appropriate action can be take **Disclaimer** The Badminton Collective and Royal Docks Academy are not responsible for any injuries or loss of item

Hi All, We are very excited to invite you to our **2026 Summer Tournament**! It'll be held on a Wednesday night in place of our usual session. It will be a **MIXED doubles tournament**, round robin style consisting of 16 teams. Playing Format and Scoring will be adjusted to fit into 3hrs. For those that have participated previously, you know how fast the day will go! So make sure you're prepared and on time! It may be even faster! (Sorry!). The tournament will use our Yonex Mavis 600 Yellow Nylon Shuttles. **Teams** * Our summer tournament is a choose your own partner event! * It is for Mixed Doubles only! **Rules & Registration** * For men, you must have played a minimum of 4 sessions with the club between our Winter Tournament (03/12/25) to Summer Tournament (01/07/26) to qualify (exemption applies only for defending champions or players that previously placed). The cost of the tournament is £16 per player that must be paid within 2 weeks of registration. * For women, you must have played a minimum of 1 session with the club between our Winter Tournament (03/12/25) to Summer Tournament (01/07/26) to qualify (exemption applies only for defending champions or players that previously placed). The cost of the tournament is £16 per player that must be paid within 2 weeks of registration. * Each team must consist of a male and female player. * Registration will be on first come first serve basis. **Please contact any of the organisers via meetup or in person at a session to register**. * If you are looking for a partner, please post a comment on the session. Organisers can add you to a waitlist to see if someone wants to partner with you. * The top 8 teams after the round robin will go into a Knock out round. The top 8 teams will be decided by the total points won. If there is a tie, we will look at total points lost. The draw will be: 1 vs 8, 4 vs 5, 3 vs 6, 2 vs 7 and the winners of each round will flow up. Sample Draw ([https://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/8teamsingleseeded-no-numbers.pdf](https://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/8teamsingleseeded-no-numbers.pdf)) **Payment** * Please pay £16 per person within 2 weeks of registration * Please use “your meetup name + Tournament” as payment reference * **Account name:** Thomas Lam * **Sort code:** 04-00-03 * **Account number:** 7478 8608 **Cancellation and Lateness** * Cancellations must be 7 days before the competition date for refund to be processed (and it's your responsibility to find a replacement for your spot) * Lateness - we understand that it's a weeknight and that work may cause you to be late. We can try our best to schedule your games off until you arrive, however, this may mean you will play 3+ games in a row to catch up. **Schedule of the Day** * Competition will run from 7pm to 10pm. Please make sure you arrive by 6:45pm. Do NOT enter the hall until an Organiser says so as there may be another session in there. * In the first round only, each team will be given time to warm up before you are required to start your match. * At the end of the competition, we will present the winners with the prizes. * Order of Games (will vary as the day progresses as per previous tournaments). **Prizes** * Trophies and free stringing for the top 3 pairs, * Free Session Credits for the top 3 pairs (3 for first, 2 for second and 1 for third to ANY session - not redeemable for cash credit) and 1 free session to the best dressed pair. * Medals for all participants and helpers. * Best dressed theme this year is **Duo's**. Dress up as a co-ordinated pair or as a famous duo! Any questions, feel free to contact any organiser! **Participants - Teams** 1. Vamesh + Shiho 2. Geffrey + Katie 3. Bijoy + Maulashree 4. Jon + Doris 5. Anushk + Jennie 6. Cyrus + Zara 7. Lenneth + Ly 8. Saswata + Rupanjana 9. Jeballeza + Natacia 10. Rei + Karen 11. Sri + Astha 12. Tim + Raki 13. Cedric + Nancy 14. Kanishk + Melina 15. Shehansha + Janette 16. Declan + Jessica **Waitlist - Looking for a Partner** 1. Gary 2. Peter 3. An Organiser will substitute for any player unable to play or get injured on the day. If there are any last minute substitutions, please let an organiser know ASAP. Your LSBC organisors xx

**🏸 APBC – Wednesday Social Session (Non-Profit) - First time RSVPs should confirm by paying at least 24 hrs before the session, else will be removed** Join us every Wednesday from **8:00–10:00 pm** for **fun**, **Non-Profit**, and **social badminton**. We’re a mixed-ability group, ranging from beginners to intermediate+ players (depending on the week), so you should get good, competitive games regardless of your level. We play on **4 courts**, use feather shuttles, and limit attendance to ensure everyone gets a fair amount of court time. ⸻ **💷 Cost & Payment** **£12** per person for the 2-hour session (includes feather shuttles). **Reduced rates** for members - enquire at one of our in-person events if interested. Payment is requested in advance via bank transfer: ***Name: Alexandra Palace BC*** ***Account no: 72351055*** *** Sort code: 60-15-20 *** Bank: NatWest** *** Reference: 'Your name AS IT APPEARS ON MEETUP & session date E.g.: Rohith Boora -070126** ⸻ **✅ Strict RSVP & Cancellation Policy** We want everyone to have a great evening and enjoy their time at the club. As we are a** non-profit club with limited funds**, we kindly ask that if you RSVP, you are committing to attend. *** Please cancel at least 24 hours before the session if you can no longer make it, so your spot can be offered to someone on the waitlist.** *** No-shows without notice will be charged the full session fee on a future visit.** *** Repeated no-shows will result in removal from the group.** ⸻ **🎒 What to Bring** Please bring your own racket, as we don’t usually have spares available. If you’re attending for the first time and are struggling to source a racket, please contact one of the organisers in advance and we’ll can try to get you a spare

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/50314 **Game Description:** 👋 Welcome to the Low Int(+) Tennis Socials! Here’s everything you need to know: 📍 Location: Lincoln's Inn Fields (Holborn) ⏱ Duration: 1 hour 👥 Spaces: 4/5 players per session 🎾 Format: Facilitated doubles play (rotate partners, keep it social and fun!) 💷 Price: £12.50 per person 🥉 Level: Lower Intermediate and above (not suitable for first-timers or beginners; exception made for some improvers) We'll warm up and then go straight into games. 🎾 Equipment • No racket? You can hire one for £5 by sending me a quick message. • Balls provided Looking forward to meeting you all on court, improving, and having a great time 🔥🎾 Questions or Racket Hire: WhatsApp me on 07350930026 Rules This is a social, friendly session focused on good vibes and respect on court at all times. No formal coaching is provided. We will start with a warm-up and then we’ll jump into single/doubles game play and just enjoy the game.

Are you a beginner at badminton and want to learn the basics so you can improve quickly and enjoy your games even more? Or perhaps you’ve been playing for a while, but are not sure if you have the right techniques, and want to take your games to the next level with more strategic play? Then join our Badminton Coaching session, improve your games and have more fun playing! **When** Thursdays, 7- 9 pm 02 July – 20 August weekly for 8 weeks **What you will learn** This course is designed to provide a good understanding of the basics of the game, to provide a solid foundation on which to build and improve skills and techniques. The course will cover: * Basics: Equipment, shoes, court layout, scoring * Grips, Opening Positions * Movement at net * Backhand low serve * Return of serve: net & clearance * Backhand flick/high serve * Overhead clearance shot * Forehand low serve * Forehand flick serve * Doubles movement & positioning **Details** * Each session will entail 60 mins of coaching and 60 mins of practice/play time. * The 1st 60 minutes will be coaching in a dedicated court. * The remaining 60 minutes will be play time so you can practice what you’ve learnt. You will play with the rest of the club as in our normal session. * Signing up for this event will sign you up for the full 8-session course. **Meet your coach** Islam is one of the organisers of the club and a qualified Level 2 Badminton coach. He started playing badminton in school. But when he started playing with friends at university, he found that they were all much better than him. He decided to take some lessons, learned the basics and it improved his games dramatically. He enjoyed the improvement so much that he decided he wanted to help others do the same. Islam has been coaching for over 14 years, specialising in coaching beginners in doubles/mixed doubles.

🏸 **APBC Advanced Doubles Session – Thursday** **Waitlist approach - add your name to the waitlist to get accepted** ⚠️ **Maximum Capacity: 14 Players** This session is designed exclusively for advanced and competitive badminton players. It is intended for players who currently compete in the Middlesex League or other competitive county/local leagues and are comfortable playing at a high standard of doubles. **Current Playing Standard** 🏆 Men's League: Division 2–5 (Middlesex) 🏆 Ladies League: Division 2 (Middlesex) 🏆 Mixed League: Division 1 (Middlesex) **Session Focus** • Fast-paced doubles rallies • Rotation and tactical positioning • Match play under competitive conditions • Improving decision-making and partnership play ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 **Booking Process** To help maintain the standard of the session, please add your name to the Meetup waitlist. Your place will normally be confirmed within 1-2 days after review. If you are new to the club and believe you are of a suitable standard, please send a direct message to the organiser with a brief summary of your playing experience (league, club or tournament level). These measures help ensure everyone enjoys competitive and balanced games throughout the evening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💷 **Session Fee** **£13 per player** **Payment by bank transfer:** Account Name: Alexandra Palace BC Account Number: 72351055 Sort Code: 60-15-20 Bank: NatWest Reference: **YourName-DDMMYY** Example: **Rohith-180626** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏸 **Weekly Session Information** • Every Thursday • 7:30pm – 10:00pm • 2 courts • Maximum 14 players Please check the Meetup title and venue before attending, as the location may occasionally change due to school closures or venue availability. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 **Home Venue** Heartlands High School Station Road Wood Green London N22 7ST Nearest stations: 🚇 Wood Green – 5 minutes walk 🚆 Alexandra Palace – 1 minute walk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 **Alternative Venue** (Used during school exams or summer closure) Sobell Leisure Centre N7 7NY Nearest station: 🚇 Finsbury Park – 12 minutes walk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We look forward to welcoming players who enjoy a competitive environment with high-quality doubles games and a friendly atmosphere. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **Disclaimer:** * We expect everyone to follow the code of conduct else disciplinary actions will be taken on the individual’s * Alexandra Palace Badminton Club or Organiser's can accept no liability for any loss or injury, however sustained, while taking part in club activities. * If you want to cover yourself against injury to yourself or others, please make sure you have the appropriate insurance. In the interest of health and safety, proper footwear is a must in this club which means no casual footwear and no barefoot on the court.

**\*Please note we had to increase the session fees to £15 due to increase in court hire and shuttles.** Thursday Evening Badminton Date: 02 July 2026 Time: 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm Courts: 3 courts available Shuttles: Feather (quality feathers) Session Fee: £15 per person. TWO & HALF HOURS OF BADMINTON - £15, Venue: Somers Town Community Sports Centre 134 Chalton Street, London NW1 1RX Free Street Parking Available. This session is for those that are intermediate and above (strictly no beginners/ improvers/ Low Intermediates). We want to ensure the quality of play while controlling the standard of the club, this means that players who are not quite up to the standard may be asked politely to leave. PLEASE PAY BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE SESSION EITHER VIA BANK TRANSFER/ PAYPAL. IMPORTANT: OUR TERMS! Coronavirus: Stay Safe, Play Safe https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Badminton-Club/boards/thread/52704882 Badminton Tactics: https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Badminton-Club/messages/boards/thread/52043613 \*PLEASE NOTE: LATE CANCELLATIONS (AFTER 12 MIDDAY ON THURSDAY) OR NO-SHOWS WILL INCUR A PENALTY CHARGE OF £15. YOU WILL NEED TO PAY THE PENALTY CHARGE BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO RSVP AT THE NEXT AVAILABLE SESSION. • You are responsible for your own well-being and we and the sports facility representatives will not be responsible for any injury, stolen or damaged property or any other occurrences during our sessions. • Organisers: Mohammed (mr. nice guy), Vin (the merciless), Michael (Big Boss) and Moynul (the dark side of badminton)

Friday Evening Badminton, High Intermediate/ Advanced Date: 03 July 2026 Time: 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm Courts: 3 courts available Shuttles: Feather (quality feathers) Session Fee: £14 per person. TWO HOURS OF BADMINTON - £14, Venue: CitySport, 124 Goswell Rd., London EC1V 7DP This session is for those that are high intermediate and above (strictly no beginners/ improvers/ Low Intermediates). We want to ensure the quality of play while controlling the standard of the club, this means that players who are not quite up to the standard may be asked politely to leave. PLEASE PAY BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE SESSION EITHER VIA BANK TRANSFER/ PAYPAL. IMPORTANT: OUR TERMS! Coronavirus: Stay Safe, Play Safe https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Badminton-Club/boards/thread/52704882 PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO GUIDELINES, CURRENTLY THERE IS NO CHANGING ROOM FACILITIES AND NO SHOWER FACILITIES AVAILABLE AT THIS LOCATION. Badminton Tactics: https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Badminton-Club/messages/boards/thread/52043613 \*PLEASE NOTE: LATE CANCELLATIONS (AFTER 1PM ON THURSDAY) OR NO-SHOWS WILL INCUR A PENALTY CHARGE OF £14. YOU WILL NEED TO PAY THE PENALTY CHARGE BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO RSVP AT THE NEXT AVAILABLE SESSION. • You are responsible for your own well-being and we and the sports facility representatives will not be responsible for any injury, stolen or damaged property or any other occurrences during our sessions. • Organisers: Mohammed (mr. nice guy), Vin (the merciless) and Moynul (the dark side of badminton)

**\*Please note we had to increase the session fees to £14 due to increase in court hire and shuttles.** Sunday Morning Badminton Date: 05 July 2026 Time: 10 am to 12 Noon Courts: 4 courts available Shuttles: Feather (quality feathers) Session Fee: £14 per person. TWO HOURS OF BADMINTON - £14, Venue: Somers Town Community Sports Centre 134 Chalton Street, London NW1 1RX Free Street Parking Available. This session is for those that are intermediate and above (strictly no beginners/ improvers/ Low Intermediates). We want to ensure the quality of play while controlling the standard of the club, this means that players who are not quite up to the standard may be asked politely to leave. PLEASE PAY BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE SESSION EITHER VIA BANK TRANSFER/ PAYPAL. IMPORTANT: OUR TERMS! Coronavirus: Stay Safe, Play Safe https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Badminton-Club/boards/thread/52704882 Badminton Tactics: https://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Badminton-Club/messages/boards/thread/52043613 \*PLEASE NOTE: LATE CANCELLATIONS (AFTER 8PM ON SATURDAY) OR NO-SHOWS WILL INCUR A PENALTY CHARGE OF £14. YOU WILL NEED TO PAY THE PENALTY CHARGE BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO RSVP AT THE NEXT AVAILABLE SESSION. • You are responsible for your own well-being and we and the sports facility representatives will not be responsible for any injury, stolen or damaged property or any other occurrences during our sessions. • Organisers: Mohammed (mr. nice guy), Vin (the merciless) and Moynul (the dark side of badminton)

We connect you with up to 30 Men or Women tennis partners close to your PLAYING REGION and skill level. This program is less competitive, no champions crowned, no league standings just dedicated tennis partners who want to meet up with you on the courts. Players will meet up to play a tennis match or just to hit around. Just go through the [Join Page](https://www.tenniscolumbus.com/partner-program) to enter this program. [https://www.tenniscolumbus.com/partner-program](https://www.tenniscolumbus.com/partner-program)

We’re still working to get more people into these Meetups, but our goal is to give PlayYourCourt members a few social tennis outings each week in addition to your practice sessions and Challenge League matches. These Meetups are co-ed, super laid back, and all skill levels are welcome. Post your skill level and a suggested court in the comments section so we can round up as many players as we can for some tennis fun! Also, if you’re looking to meet new practice partners or play some matches and you aren’t already in the PlayYourCourt Community, you can go here to see what we’re all about and sign up: https://www.playyourcourt.com/tennis-community/columbus-oh/meetup/ If you love tennis, we’d love to have you! Be sure and watch the quick video that explains how everything works. Happy hitting! - Scott

🇺🇸 Red, White & BOOM: A Black Love Summer Social ❤️ Skip the downtown chaos and celebrate with great people instead! Join Black Love & Friends as we spend the evening together in the beautiful, historic King-Lincoln District, just steps from Mayme Moore Park, with an incredible view of the Red, White & BOOM fireworks. This isn't a formal event—it's a relaxed summer gathering. Come early or stop by later. Stay for an hour or stay all evening. We'll have our own private meetup space where you can kick back, meet new people, play a few games, enjoy light refreshments, and simply enjoy the holiday together. Throughout the evening we'll explore the King-Lincoln District, soak up the atmosphere, laugh, connect, and then settle in as the Columbus skyline lights up with one of the biggest fireworks shows of the year. ✨ What to expect: 🎆 Great views of the Red, White & BOOM fireworks 🏙️ Historic King-Lincoln District ⛺ Private Black Love & Friends meetup tent 🎲 Lawn games & conversation 🥤 Light refreshments 🤝 New friends & great vibes 📸 Perfect summer photo opportunities Event begins: 6:30 PM Fireworks begin later in the evening, so arrive whenever works for you. Feel free to come and go throughout the night. ⚠️ RSVP is required. Space at our tent is limited, so we'll only be able to accommodate those who register in advance. Bring a chair if you'd like, wear your favorite red, white, and blue, and come celebrate community, connection, and summer with Black Love & Friends. Good people. Great conversations. Amazing fireworks.