A February 26, 1931 Ramos Mejía was born Lawn Tennis Club. Spent 80 years founding a neighborhood institution wrapper, looking for growth based on the sacrifice, humility and passion of the partners. |
| The entrance to the club in Echeverria 361, Villa Sarmiento. |
The story began with the initiative of a group of
men and women
tennis lovers to create a space to promote sport for the whole neighborhood. The meeting place was in the theater
Victoria of Ramos Mejía.
The idea had great impact and with the support of neighbors and people from the art could realize the dream of seeing the birthplace of the Ramos Mejía
Lawn Tennis Club, so named because of its strong link with their findadores tennis.
Thanks to the remarkable success has continued to find the physical location for the new club, which ultimately anchored where it now stands today.
works slowly began to build the first tennis court and in October 1935
began work for a second
court, extending the buffet
and armed the costumes
for partners, the secretariat
and library.
In a few years, the Lawn Tennis
already had three
tennis courts
, a bocce
and a basketball . The club grew and also thanks to the spacious lounge young people gathered, there were the traditional carnival with Sandro
artistic presences ,
Armando Manzanero, Los Panchos Trio
, Alma y Vida
, among others.
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| One of the first basketball team at the Ranch. |
born
At that time the nickname by which is known
Ramos. It turns out that the characteristics and conditions under which was the headquarters were similar to a ranch in the middle of a field, which is why people began to identify the Lawn Tennis
as Rancho
, especially in the
basketball teams. In the years
60 , sports were gaining ground in the institution were
tennis and basketball
, strongly representing the club. Good management dirigencial and the number of partners made it possible to build a junior Olympic pool
(25 meters long).
More work continued extolling the LTC
Ramos Mejía, such as paddle tennis
the barbecue
,
room acrobatic gymnastics and fitness
fitness. In turn, each discipline was improving its facilities, such as basketball
, who placed the parquet floor
and the subsequent expansion of capacity with stands and stalls.
Today
Ramos grew as an institution in the western
and is a first choice for the local people when choosing a leisure activity. Undoubtedly, the sport that best represents the club today is basketball, enjoying its best with its first division team
playing in the National League B
and the recent achievement of the national club championship by more youthful. Ramos Mejía
Lawn Tennis Club meets
80 years of life and celebrates it asking the same desires: the sustained growth based on
effort and humility
. ;