Saturday dawned bright and early and saw Andrea & I at 0715! purchasing the refreshments for the Free Junior Coaching sessions, organised by the Tennis Club.
These sessions are held on consecutive weekends and are an annual event aimed at introducing children to tennis in a fun and informative way. The coaching was provided by Corey Butler who is our LTA Professional Coach, ably assisted by members of the tennis club!
The sessions were extremely well attended, with 27 young people coming along; the youngest being 4 and the eldest 15. It was great to see that over 60% of the attendees came from the village, which is well up on last year's figure.
Further to these sessions we will be commencing 6 week rolling programmes on Friday afternoons after school. The aim of these sessions is to provide formal (but still fun!) coaching to develop our youngsters into tennis players of the future. These have been very successful in the past and a good number of our 16-18 year olds are now playing for the adult competitive teams in the local leagues, which is great to see.
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