My husband works at the local lawn tennis club as a coach and he has coached some really fantastic players in his time. Although none of them have reached Wimbledon standards as yet, they have still gone on to do him proud in competitions across the country. Unfortunately at the moment, the club`s courts are looking decidedly bad and my husband as asked if he could get some Grounds Maintenance Services in to have a look at them and try to make them better. He knows a few Grounds Maintenance Services people and he told the tennis club that it would not necessarily cost very much at all. However, the club have told him that they cannot afford Grounds Maintenance Services at the moment and, in any case, they don`t believe that the courts are in a bad enough state to warrant it. My husband cannot believe this and, I must say, I have never seen him so angry. As he says, the money they charge for membership means that they are in a very lucrative position and he thinks it is totally false economy on their behalf. I hope he manages to change their mind, for his benefit and the benefit of his pupils.

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