Frequently Asked Tennis Questions

We currently have 24 courts available to use with a variety of different surfaces suited to your needs. Our club has 4 clay courts, 3 grass courts, 4 artificial grass courts and 8 floodlit macadam courts, alongside 2 mini red artificial grass courts and 3 floodlit mini courts tailored to both junior tennis and pickleball.

You do not require a membership to use our tennis facilities, however there are a host of benefits.

The current Tennis Club Membership benefits are as follows:

• Access to the grass courts in the Summer season (May to September)
• Entry into the internal tennis box leagues
• Entry into the annual Tennis Club Championships
• Entry into ad hoc tennis events (such as American Mixed Doubles)
• Eligibility to play for The Lensbury teams in the Middlesex leagues
• 10% discount on tennis products at Member’s Reception (tennis balls, grips, string shock absorbers)

The current Tennis Club Membership offering will be removed from 1st January 2024. For anybody that has paid the £52 fee in 2023, you will receive a pro rata refund for the amount of days remaining on your 1 year membership in 2024. The Racquets Manager will contact you all individually about this in due course.

To access our grass courts, you will need to call Member’s Reception to make a booking (grass courts cannot be booked via the app or online). All players will need to collect a Lensbury Tennis Club membership shoe tag from members reception prior to play, this must be worn at all times when using the grass courts. Gates to our grass courts will be locked and a new weekly padlock code will be sent out via email to you every week by the Racquets Manager.

Our Junior coaching programme runs every weekday after school and on Saturday mornings (during term time), with all our professional coaches holding a LTA licenses, CRB checked and first aid qualified.

The Junior programme structure is as follows:
Tots – 2.5 to 4 years
Munchkins – 4 to 5 years
Red – 6 to 8 years
Orange – 9 to 10 years
Green – 10 to 11 years
Yellow – 11 years+
For our more advanced players, we have now introduced an Academy product which focuses on the Red ball, Orange ball and Green ball players as well as the U14 Yellow ball players.

All of the times of the sessions vary every day. If you are interested in your son or daughter joining the coaching programme, please contact the Racquets Manager on tennis.manager@lensbury.com or 020 8614 6412.

We offer adult coaching throughout the week (daytime and evenings) as well as on Sunday. These cater to a variety of abilities, from level 1 to level 6 classes (level 1 is beginners and level 6 is advanced). For further details and if you are interested in joining, please contact the Racquets Manager on tennis.manager@lensbury.com or 020 8614 6412.

We have a very active tennis team set up, with a host of teams competing in both the Middlesex Winter and Summer leagues. We have Men’s, Women’s and Mixed teams along with multiple junior teams. If you are interested in joining one of the teams, please contact the Racquets Manager on tennis.manager@lensbury.com or 020 8614 6412.

Tennis equipment is available to borrow…

Should you need to alter or cancel a booking, this can be done within the mobile app or by calling us on 020 8614 6420

We run 4 Club Sessions per week for our adult members. These are free of charge to turn up to and you will be arranged into doubles matches by the coach who is leading the session. You do not need to book this, just simply turn up. These sessions run on the following days:

Tuesday 18.30-20.30 (road side in the Winter, river side in the Summer)
Wednesday 10.30-12.30 (river side all year round)
Friday 09.30-11.30 (river side all year round)
Sunday 10.30-12.30 (river side all year round)

We do offer one-to-one private lessons which will help you get more from your game with the help of our experienced coaches. Contact our Racquets Manager on tennis.manager@lensbury.com or call 020 8614 6412 for further information and to book your lesson.

We run a range of events and tournaments internally at The Lensbury each year, details of these can be found via our app or by visiting …

We offer tennis, pickleball and squash currently

Bookings for use of our tennis, pickleball and squash courts can all be done via our app, alternatively you can make a reservation on the phone on 020 8614 6420