\n East Dorset Tennis Club is inviting guests to a presentation by Shirley Critchley, a former world No.4 veteran player.\n<\/p>\n
\n The event will take place at the club’s Salterns Road site in Poole.\n<\/p>\n
\n Shirley, a celebrated player for Dorset, has a remarkable family history in the sport.\n<\/p>\n
\n Shirley Critchley, a local tennis player and former No.4 veteran player in the world. (Image: East Dorset Tennis Club)\n<\/p>\n
\n Her mother was a Wimbledon player, while her grandfather was a member of Wimbledon in 1877.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alongside her distinguished tennis career, which includes winning the ladies’ doubles at the Millennium Vets tournament at Wimbledon in her age group, Shirley also has an adventurous streak.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her explorations range from Nepal and Southern India to Bangladesh and South America.\n<\/p>\n
\n Additionally, she has given lectures on 15 cruise ships, including the QE2.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tickets are priced at \u00a310 each, with all profits going to Bright Ideas For Tennis.\n<\/p>\n
\n Shirley, who is now 93, still enjoys playing tennis for fun.\n<\/p>\n
\n For more information, visit the Bright Ideas For Tennis website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Dorset Tennis Club is inviting guests to a presentation by Shirley Critchley, a former world No.4 veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-464284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}