A Word from the Tennis Co-Chairmen
Casey Tarr & Madeline Metcalfe

Consider these in your vacation plans, ask questions, join the trip that suits your budget and fitness level.

Sign up by mailing a Tennis Weekend Reservation Form to the leader named in the event. Make your check out to the "SCWDC". You will receive a comfirmation of your check and reservation by email or phone within two weeks of receipt of your letter, including information about when your final payment is due. If the event is full, you will be wait-listed, and your check will not be cashed until there is space on the trip for you. Be sure to send the reservation form, or equivalent information. You are not "on the trip" until the leader confirms you.

On weekend trips, we must match participants to individual bedrooms and beds (couples, 2 singles, etc.), and we cancel rooms 20-40 days before the event if sign-ups fall short of room reservations. However, it is important that you only signup for events that you are willing and able to attend, because there may be unrecoverable expenses which you must pay if you cannot attend the event that you signed up for.

The SCWDC does not offer traditional "learn-to-play-tennis" lessons in the summer. For those, you need to contact a county recreation program or local tennis club, including those at which we play our Saturday Night tennis parties. Check the Fairfax Racquet Club web site at www.fairfaxracquetclub.com which has information on day and evening lessons. Also, your local county recreation department:
in Fairfax, that is, http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/living/parks/default.htm;
in Arlington, that is, http://www.co.arlington.va.us/prcr/scripts/classes/classes.asp;
in Montgomery County, MD, it is http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/siteHead.asp?page=/mc/services/rec/home.html. (Of course, if these addresses don't work, try a web search using an internet search engine.) Or try a summer weekend teaching course like Ray Campbell Tennis Camps at 301-209-9464 for sessions in June and July. You might also check the Friday Weekend Section of the Washington Post, or the Yellow Pages/Yellow Book telephone listing under Tennis Instruction. The SCWDC is not associated with and does not endorse any training program or individual.