Local Tennis Clubs Serving Up the Holiday Cheer
The holiday season can often become quite stressful. Whether it’s shopping, making travel plans, finishing up projects at work before the year ends or bumper-to-bumper traffic, the holiday season can be quite an undertaking for a New Yorker. Knowing this, two local tennis clubs offered their members a few hours to forget about the holiday stress by hosting recent holiday parties.
On Dec. 11th, Manhattan Plaza Racquet Club held their member’s holiday party on the same day as new renovations to the club were completed. Members walked into the newly renovated facilities and were in shock at what they saw … new carpeting and lighting was found throughout the club, completely-revamped locker rooms and a second floor of the clubhouse where members can relax, watch TV and even watch their competition on the courts from the clubhouse from newly-installed courtside cameras. During the party, members were enjoying other members play on TV from the clubhouse, as their friends played games such as King of the Court and Offense-Defense while enjoying food and drink.
According to Gil Amar, “We are very happy to have our renovations finished in time for this party. We wanted to thank our members for being patient during the renovations and what better way to say thank you than having a party for them!”
Across the river in Queens, CityView Racquet Club had their holiday party on Dec. 13th. In light of the holiday season, there was also a silent auction that supported the Meals on Wheels Foundation. Featured items included signed memorabilia from Eli Manning, Derek Jeter, Jimmy Connors, Mark Sanchez and pro athletes.
With the holiday season binge being one of, if not the, most hectic times of year, the local tennis clubs offered their members the chance to release some stress by meeting with friends, making new friends and smashing some tennis balls as 2011 winds down and 2012 looms around the corner.
