Tanglin Halt Picketball Club
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【Tanglin Halt Pickleball Club】
Welcome to Tanglin Halt Pickleball Club (THPC), a private pickleball community founded by Roy Lin - A Night Grabber & Coach / Social Media Mini-Influencer / Multiple Community Leader / Entrepreneur. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
I am a 100% Singaporean 🇸🇬 and love to host any good soul visiting our little red dot. 🪂🪂🪂
Let us re-create the kampong spirit through pickleball!! 🎃🎃
Our international club, THPC, focuses on respectful, enjoyable and friendly games. Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced player, you are welcome to join us. 🚀🚀🚀
So far, international friends from India 🇮🇳, USA 🇺🇸, Vietnam 🇻🇳, Malaysia 🇲🇾, Korea 🇰🇷, Philippines 🇵🇭, France 🇫🇷 and China 🇨🇳 have joined in our fun.
You can be passing through Singapore as a tourist, or working or studying here.
🇸🇬🇸🇬 Fellow Singaporeans WELCOME too hor!
Most of our THPC sessions are held at Farrer Park ActiveSG Indoor Pickleball Courts, where I organise weekday games, typically between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm, whenever I am successful in securing a court booking (SO Difficult to Book!). 🥑🥑🥑🥑🥑
This venue is selected because of its central location + next to MRT station (Little India Exit B) + indoor courts, where the weather cannot spoil the fun. 🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼
So why are all THPC games FREE-OF-CHARGE (FOC) at ActiveSG Pickleball Courts?? 🚛🚛🚛🚛
This is because the court rate is too cheap to charge anyone. THPC has no membership fees or game fees whatsoever.
Having great companionship and new friendships is worth far more than the price of a latte!! ⛱️⛱️⛱️⛱️
All our THPC games are sponsored by myself (Roy Lin), a Night Grab driver, OR by any THPC individual sponsor.
So you are also welcome to help book Farrer Park ActiveSG Pickleball Courts for our 4–6 pm Monday, Wednesday & Thursday slots via the ActiveSG sports website at every noon! Each slot must be booked 12 days ahead. ⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️
In return, THPC participants are welcome to bring some nice snacks or food to share (pot luck) at courtside in exchange for this goodwill playtime. 🧯🧯🧯🧯
【THPC PLAY LEVELS】
THPC is one community with different playing intensities.
We welcome beginners while encouraging everyone to continuously improve. We also invite stronger players to join us because playing with better players gives everyone an opportunity to learn new tricks, techniques, warm-ups, drills and strategies.
Every game should be an opportunity to learn something and improve our own standard of play. 🚀🏓
🚀 MONDAY - ACTIVE | Level 2.5+
For players who already know the game and can sustain rallies.
Expect faster rotation, more court time, longer rallies and minimal waiting, giving everyone a good workout while continuing to improve.
10 Players | 2 Courts | Doubles
🥑 WEDNESDAY - SOCIAL | Beginner Welcome | Level 2.0+
Friendly and inclusive games for beginners and recreational players.
Meet new people, enjoy mixed-level doubles and learn from one another in a relaxed environment.
12 Players | 2 Courts | Doubles
🔥 THURSDAY - PERFORMANCE | Level 3.0+
For stronger players seeking faster, more consistent and tactical games.
Expect challenging rallies and opportunities to play with experienced players, learn from them and raise your own standard of play.
10 Players | 2 Courts | Doubles
Suggested levels may be based on DUPR or equivalent playing standard.
🏓 All THPC games are FREE OF CHARGE.
Same Community • Different Intensity • Continuous Improvement
【THPC House Rules】
Welcome to join our FOC games and community.
Kindly spend 1 minute to understand our house rules below:
1. Real Profiles Only 🥊
Please use a real face photo. Be real with us! (Old pals excepted)
2. Game Confirmation 🐲
All game invites are at Admin’s discretion. Confirmed players will be notified 24hrs before game time.
3. Player Mix 🍄
We encourage a healthy mixture of new players, regulars and different playing standards so everyone gets opportunities to socialise, play and improve.
4. Be Respectful 🛼
Poor etiquette - social, game, or time - = block/blacklist. No notice given.
5. Game Format 🦞
2 hours per session.
SOCIAL: Maximum 12 players / 2 courts.
ACTIVE: Maximum 10 players / 2 courts.
PERFORMANCE: Maximum 10 players / 2 courts.
All games are Doubles.
Scoring: Every ball = 1 point. 1 serve only, then side out. 11 points per set.
After each set, the losing pair rotates out and the waiting pair enters the court.
The objective is simple: more playing, less waiting! 🚀
6. No Last-Minute Cancels 🥁
If you accept but need to cancel, inform Admin via chat at least 24hrs before. No-show/cancel late = block.
7. Membership Review 🎷
Quarterly review. Inactive members or rule-breakers will be removed.
Final membership decision is with THPC Founder.
8. How to Join 🫀
Play a game with us first. We’ll assess fit during/after.
Suitable players will get an invite.
Character & good company first. Playing level second. 🏓
【History of Tanglin Halt District】
Tanglin Halt area in Singapore 🇸🇬 is where my pickleball lifestyle begins and hence I named this club as such.
How did the district name originate?
Tanglin Halt has a surprisingly rich history. It is almost a miniature version of Singapore’s transformation, from railway and kampong land, to early public housing and factories, and now to a new generation of high-density housing. 🦺🦺🦺
🚂 1. Why is it called “Tanglin Halt”?
The name is tied to the Malayan Railway. 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️
When the railway route to Tanjong Pagar opened in 1932, there was a small railway stop in the Tanglin/Queenstown area. The railway corridor subsequently became an important physical feature beside the neighbourhood.
The word “Halt” literally referred to a railway stopping point, hence the name Tanglin Halt. 🌳🌳🌳🌳
For generations of residents, trains were part of everyday life. The KTM tracks ran immediately alongside the estate, and residents remembered the train horns as part of Tanglin Halt’s soundscape.
The railway finally ceased operation through this corridor in 2011, after which the tracks were removed and the land became today’s Rail Corridor. 🥫🥫🥫🥫🥫
🏘️ 2. Tanglin Halt became part of Singapore’s first satellite town
This is where its history becomes nationally significant. 🥗🥗🥗🥗
Queenstown was Singapore’s first satellite town, conceived by the colonial-era Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT). It was named in 1953 in connection with Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation.
The idea was quite advanced for the time: instead of simply building housing, planners wanted a self-contained town with homes + factories + shops + markets + schools + clinics. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
Tanglin Halt was designated Neighbourhood Four of the Queenstown plan. HDB took over from SIT in 1960 and greatly accelerated construction. 🍖🍖🍖🍖🍖
Some of the early Tanglin Halt/Commonwealth blocks date from 1962. 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭
And here’s a lovely piece of Singapore trivia:
The famous ten-storey blocks around Commonwealth Drive became known in Hokkien as “chup lau chu” 十楼厝, essentially “ten-storey houses.”
Blocks 74–80 were even depicted on Singapore’s 1967 Orchid Series $1 note. 🥘🥘🥘🥘🥘🥘
So those humble-looking blocks were once symbols of a futuristic Singapore. 🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃
📺 3. Tanglin Halt wasn’t just housing. It helped industrialise Singapore.
This part is especially interesting. 🍹🍹🍹🍹
The government developed the Tanglin Halt Industrial Estate during the 1960s. It occupied about 20 acres and contained 38 factory lots, deliberately located close to the railway and a large pool of workers. 🎱🎱🎱🎱
Factories there included Setron (Singapore Electronics), Van Houten chocolate, Diethelm aluminium and Unitex garments. 🥗🥗🥗🥗
And Tanglin Halt has a genuine “Made in Singapore” claim to fame:
Singapore’s first locally produced black-and-white television was manufactured by Setron at Tanglin Halt in 1964. 📺🇸🇬
Imagine the neighbourhood in the 1960s: thousands of families living in brand-new HDB flats, factories operating nearby, workers walking to work, trains rumbling alongside the estate and hawkers and neighbourhood shops appearing to serve everyone. ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
That combination of housing + employment + transport + community facilities was exactly what Singapore’s early planners were trying to achieve. 🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
🏪 4. A community develops
The Tanglin Halt Neighbourhood Centre opened in 1964, becoming the commercial and social heart of the estate. ⛳️⛳️⛳️⛳️🥍
Over the following decades, Tanglin Halt matured into the familiar old-school Singapore neighbourhood many people remember: provision shops, coffeeshops, hawkers, wet-market activity and residents who had known one another for decades. 🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝
Meanwhile, Singapore’s economy changed.
By the late 1980s, many Tanglin Halt factories began relocating to larger industrial estates. The old labour-intensive factories were eventually replaced by modern commercial and industrial buildings such as One Commonwealth and the Haw Par Corporation Technocentre. ⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️
🏗️ 5. The great redevelopment
Then came another enormous transformation. 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
In 2014, Tanglin Halt was selected for HDB’s Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS).
The programme affected 3,480 flats across 31 blocks, making it the largest SERS exercise announced at the time. 🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️
That effectively brought the original 1960s Tanglin Halt chapter to an end.
But Tanglin Halt isn’t disappearing.
It is being reborn. 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
HDB’s rejuvenation plans envisage more than 6,000 new homes by around 2030, together with new amenities and connections to the Rail Corridor.
Importantly, planners have deliberately incorporated references to Tanglin Halt’s heritage, including the memory of the famous chup lau chu blocks.
Play with Passion! Live with Happiness! 🍭🍭🍭
WR,
Roy Lin
Founder, THPC 🔋🔋🔋🔋
