Game set and match!

Here is the Whittlesford Tennis Club courts having just been officially opened on Sunday afternoon with brand new playing surfaces paid for by a joint effort from the Parish Council, South Cambs District Council and Sport England. I was very pleased to support the bid made to the council's amenities fund and equally pleased to be there on Sunday to see the result. 17 years since the old surfaces were done apparently, and a bit gravelly on the knees if you stretched too far on the return of service and came a cropper

In the couple of hours when the sun came out a crowd of tennis players and well-wishers turned out on the Lawn to eat cake, toast the new surfaces and watch a bit of rather squally tennis in between the rain showers. Some of those present had started playing in Whittlesford in the 1970s. The Saffron Walden Reporter photographer captured it all.