Devastating News: It is reported the Beth Holmes, the Junior Match Secretary, has passed away suddenly. Her mother asks that any outstanding issues, and of course, any future ones be passed to her. She says she will finish off the junior season and Mark Pearson has offered to do the same. Clubs with junior teams need to make a note of her email:

julieholmes32@gmail.com

All our thoughts are with Andy and Julie Holmes.

Permanent 'A' team players: As previously reported, all clubs in senior leagues who have multi-team set ups have to nominate a minimum of three players who have the Special Status of being permanent 'A' team players. This includes mixed and ladies. Match Secretaries will be contacting some clubs to get this sorted and reporting back to the Registration Secretary. If you can't sort it yourself, they will need to sort it for you. Apologies if you have been on the ball already.

Tournament Latest: The tournament is now open for entries (mostly!). We are waiting for the LTA to amend the handicap MD;WD;XD and MS events which are currently unavailable. We would encourage you to submit entries other than those and will send a subsequent email once everything is back on track.

Please remember that all players must be available at some point over the first weekend and on Finals' Day, and please declare any unavailability as a note with your entry.

We now have a dedicated internet site on which you can find all tournament information and a link to entry - it is boltontennistournament.co.uk

Thanks Liz Perry and Andy Taylor

Fixtures, Results & Tables beta testing link:

http://boltontennisleague.co.uk/FixturesAndResults/HomePage.php