Clearly, we are not going to play in silence, however we need to curb some of our enthusiasm - occasionally the volume of delight and/or frustration may be on the loud side! Secondly, we are placing signs up on all the courts to remind people that we should be considerate of our neighbours. We have set about a number of interventions to reduce these.įirstly, we are highlighting with all our members that we need to be aware that we have nearby neighbours and to be considerate as we play our tennis. However there are a number of examples where the noise level is not acceptable. It would be fair to say that there is a gap of expectation between the impact of being next to a tennis club and the level of noise they are likely to experience. The committee has been looking at this and the Chair has met with the neighbours on a couple of occasions to talk through solutions. Our neighbours have been complaining about the noise from the tennis club and the impact on their enjoyment of their property and garden. The first thing is that we have a bit of a challenge. This year let's hope we can get back to uninterrupted tennis and enjoy our wonderful facilities, and perhaps help achieve some of your resolutions. To Become a Friend, click on the link, choose your preferred option, and you will be guided through the process.We hope that you have had a good festive break and your New Year's resolutions are still in play. We have partnered with Supporting Cast - who provide a similar system for the wonderful team at The Cycling Podcast - and you can listen to Friends of The Tennis Podcast in the same app that you listen to The Tennis Podcast. Signing up to Friends of The Tennis Podcast is very straightforward and you will be up and running in a few clicks and a couple of minutes. In the weeks and months to come we will add to them. We have also recorded a brand new podcast called My First Wimbledon, in which we remember our first experiences watching, visiting and working at Wimbledon. All of them are freshly edited and ad-free. Six of them are favourites from our archive - the Roger Federer Story, the Rafael Nadal Story, the Althea Gibson Story, our interviews with Larry Stefanki and Marion Bartoli, and an examination of our Worst Tennis Podcast Predictions Ever from the last decade. We have pre-loaded seven episodes on to the Friends of The Tennis Podcast feed for you to listen to straight away. What will subscribers get when they sign up? So, the free, public podcast feed will continue to have adverts in them, and the additional shows that appear on the Friends feed will not. We do receive some advertising revenue through our podcast hosting platform, Acast, and have had some sponsorship, but most podcasts find that they need to put together multiple income sources in order to make it work. Why not just fund the podcast via advertising and sponsorship? All of the familiar shout-outs, podcast intros, pet mascot and predictions options will be available to Friends who would like to get more involved, and we will do all we can to make a subscription, at any level, worthwhile. At the same time, those that do become ‘Friends’, will get something more. Plus, we want to offer something additional for those that pay, and so we are moving to a system that will allow us to do that.įriends of The Tennis Podcast will enable us to continue delivering our weekly Tennis Podcast year-round, and the daily podcast during Grand Slams (so more than 100 podcasts in 2022) free-of-charge. We have received astonishing support from our listeners during our five annual Kickstarter campaigns, and could not be more grateful, but we do not feel that it is right to continually increase a target for crowdfunding. With those costs, accountancy, equipment and everything else required, we now need to treat the podcast as a business as well as a labour of love, if it is to work. The three of us work on the podcast every day of the year in one way or another, and we also hire a production manager, a graphic designer, several editors, and of course Hannah during the Grand Slams to work on our social media. Plus, there are a lot of people that contribute to what we do. Much as we love producing the show, and have done for the past decade, it is a huge commitment - we published more than 150 podcasts over each of the past two years, and we know that if we work on the pod, it takes time away from other work we could be doing. Well, we have thought long and hard about the best way to keep the The Tennis Podcast going during these challenging times. Today we are launching Friends of The Tennis Podcas t, a new subscription service that will sit alongside our free feed of podcasts and deliver new editions of Tennis Re-Lived, Friends-only Q&A podcasts, a bonus show after each of the Grand Slam tournaments and lots of other exclusive content to subscribers.
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