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NO GAMES.
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Just 10 Point
Tie Break Matches.

The Official Short-Form Tennis Format played by Pro Players and anyone else.

All you need is a racket, a court, and a friend — the fast, first - to -10 format makes it perfect for players of any age or skill level.

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Exciting new concept in tennis | Tie Break Tens | Tennis

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New Concept - Tie Break Tens is the most exciting new concept in Tennis. Visit the official website for how to play, our events and how you can get involved

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Schools Tennis Demo at ITF Coaches Conference 2025

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Schools Tennis Demo at ITF Coaches Conference 2025

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Ruben Neyens presenting at the ITF World Coaches Conference 2025 - Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Welcome to the ITF Youth Tennis Leader course. A personal development course designed for young people aged 13-25 interested in working or volunteering in tennis and sport. Young people, just like you!

This course is a perfect introduction to youth leadership and the amazing range of leadership opportunities in tennis.

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9 Fun Games to develop movement skills and athleticism

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9 Fun Games to develop movement skills and athleticism

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In a child's eyes, games are the most natural, recognizable, and enjoyable of all activities. Give kids free time and space, and you will see them either chasing each other playing tag or wrestling each other to the ground. From a coaching perspective, games are easy to teach and obviously fun and motivating for the young athlete.

In games, it's easy to manipulate the rules, environment, and participants to get different desired outcomes. Different outcomes develop different skills and abilities, says @JeremyFrisch. Click To Tweet

It is also easy to manipulate the rules, environment, and participants of games to get different desired outcomes. Different outcomes develop different skills and abilities. For example, a coach can manipulate the size of the playing field in a game of tag to allow the players to have to cover more distance. This can increase the conditioning effect or shorten the distance to allow for more decision-making and change of direction development.

Why Games Trump Youth Sports

Ultimately, games serve as a vehicle for kids to practice and expand their overall movement skill set. Before the invention of training facilities and travel teams, children played all kinds of games after school in backyards and sandlots across America. These random pick-up games loosely based around sports, with their own set of rules and guidelines that the participants themselves made up, were a perfect environment for children to try and practice a variety of skills.

These games were fun because kids were among friends and free of any adult involvement. There were no coaches there telling the kids how to do one particular skill; rather, children would come up with a variety of ways to accomplish a task. This autonomy and development of diverse skills armed kids with the ability to problem-solve in different situations. They would then take these skills with them into more complex forms of organized sports later on.

In my facility, we practice a variety of fundamental movements like sprinting, jumping, catching, and throwing. These basic movements are foundational to many sports skills, so it's important that young athletes have a decent understanding of how to do these movements. With young athletes, we don't look for complete mastery here, but basic competency. We often introduce and practice these movements during the warm-up period/skill development period of our training session. From there, we take those skills and try to put them into use in a more open and chaotic environment. This where we use games to further develop our movement skills.

In the following part of this article, I list my favorite games that work in my facility along with the specific training goals that I look to develop. It is by no means an exhaustive list of games. The idea here is to simply offer some ideas that coaches can use to develop all-around athleticism. Some of these games are very simple; others are a bit more complex. I have found all of them to be valuable and fun for the young athletes I work with.

Flag Tag

In its essence, Tag may be the simplest but most athletically beneficial of all games. When it comes to developing a wide range of athletic skills, the game of Tag is unmatched. First, kids intuitively understand how to play Tag without any formal instruction. They love that rush of implied danger from being tagged, and the game requires nothing more than open space.

Here is a list of some of the other skills developed during Tag: decision-making skills, tracking, evasion, tactics and strategy, acceleration, deceleration and change of direction, reaching, and changing body position. Let's not forget Tag's amazing cardiovascular benefits and, as you will see in the Flag Tag version, its development of accuracy.

The flag version of Tag simply adds football flags to the equation. Now, instead of one person being "it," everyone is it and not it at the same time. It's each person for themselves in a "last man standing," royal rumble-style competition. The goal is to pull each opponent's flag and, at the same time, not get your flag pulled. The last one with a flag still on wins.

What I love about Flag Tag is that, instead of tagging an opponent anywhere, the flag pull is specific to one spot on the body: the hips. If any football coaches are reading this, they know this is a very important concept. This is because in tracking for tackling an offensive player with the ball, the defender always tracks near the hip.

Team Relay Tag

This version of Tag uses time to determine the winner. One team is the taggers, and the other team is the runners. We typically play this game inside a 10-yard x 10-yard square, but we may go bigger or smaller depending on the number of players involved. In Team Relay Tag, each player on the tagger team will have a turn trying to tag a person on the runner team.

If a person on the runner team is tagged, they are not out; they stay in the game until all taggers have had their turn. We simply time how long it takes for the taggers to get a runner. Then the teams switch roles. The team that has the fastest time tagging wins the game. Some of the key skills developed are quick changes of direction, efficient movement in tight spaces, and the ability to process a lot of visual input quickly.

Time helps build urgency, as most sports use time periods to determine outcomes. True, games like baseball and golf are not time-based, but nearly all other games in team sports use the clock to determine the winner in addition to the score. Points and time seem to improve efficient movement development if done right.

Power Ball

Yes, you guessed it. I stole this game directly from the old American Gladiators show. The game is simple: The offensive player on each team has 30 seconds to score three separate balls into a bucket. The player can only hold one ball at a time. If that player gets tagged by a defender before they score, that ball is out for the remainder of the 30 seconds.

The setup is key in this game. There will always be one more bucket to score than the number of defenders. For example, if there are three players to a team, they will have to defend four buckets. This forces the defenders to really work together and hustle to cover all the buckets. Offensively, the scorer is always searching for an open scoring opportunity by working off their teammates' actions.

Remember: There will always be one open bucket on the floor, but that will change depending on the defenders' positions and where the offense is trying to score. The development of skills like evasion/invasion, tracking/tagging, defensive sliding/shuffling, and vision/perception/decision-making are applicable to many sports, and this is why a game like this is so beneficial to young athletes. We can develop usable skills in a competitive situation.

Move the Mountain

Move the Mountain is a relay race on steroids. Instead of the classic version of a relay race where the participants simply run back and forth, Move the Mountain involves running, carrying, and traversing an obstacle course. I am a huge fan of relay races with young athletes because of their many positive benefits:

Awesome team activity.

Perfect for large groups of kids.

Encourages healthy competition.

Great for cheering on your teammates.

Kids give maximum effort followed by appropriate rest.

Team races are awesome because we can divide teams evenly to make a competitive race. A fast stud can be paired with a slower kid and race against a couple of average speed athletes. Add in the obstacle course, and the athletes having to carry weighted objects turns the race from pure speed to something entirely different.

Runners and Gunners (aka: Pickle)

Pickle was one of my favorite games as a kid. I can remember playing it-running back and forth in the middle of the street while the throwers "gunned" a tennis ball back and forth. In the original version of Pickle that I played as a kid in the '80s, the only way to get out was for the throwers to tag you, just like in baseball. In the 2019 version of Runners and Gunners, we use gator skin balls and runners can be gunned down either by being tagged or being hit with the ball. In the older version, we played with just a few kids in the middle as runners. In the Runners and Gunners version, we play with many players in the middle, and the winner is the last one standing.

At Achieve Performance, we often end a training session with Runners and Gunners because it's a great way to get some extra cardiovascular conditioning. When the game gets going, it's amazing how much running the kids are actually able to get in. Anecdotally, I have seen kids run back and forth for upward of 300-400 yards in a game. They do this without realizing they are actually conditioning because they are engaged and having fun.

We often end a training session with the Runners and Gunners game because it's a great way to get some extra cardiovascular conditioning, says @JeremyFrisch. Click To Tweet

Try having a 10-year-old running repeat 300-yard shuttles and you won't be in the business working with youth for very long. Therefore, a competitive event like Pickle is a game-changer. This game also develops other skills, including change of direction, acceleration, evasion, dodging, tracking, and throwing. Of all the games we play at my facility, this is by far the most popular.

Kings and Pawns

Kings and Pawns combines elements of both wrestling and football. There is blocking, tackling, takedowns, and running all combined in a very small space. The game consists of two teams facing off with each other. Each team has a king and pawns, with the pawns kneeling and the king standing behind them. The purpose of the game is for the kings to make their way across the playing area to the other side without being tackled by a pawn on the other team. The king's own pawns work to block the opposing team's pawns and make a safe passage for their king.

Youth athletes love the rough-and-tumble nature of Kings and Pawns. For athletes who aspire to play contact sports, this is a great game for getting used to the pushing-pulling and tackling nature of those sports. Contact sports involve players having to be comfortable in each other's personal space. They have to be able to keep their balance and learn how to react to an opponent's movements.

I can think of no better game than Kings and Pawns. There is so much pushing and pulling and grappling going on, all inside a small and chaotic space. It's the perfect environment to stimulate all the senses and force the young athletes to come up with unique ways to be successful in a space.

Boulder Ball

Boulder Ball is a favorite of our youngest aspiring athletes. We have two versions: one that focuses on dodging and evasion and one that focuses on speed and acceleration. The game is played with a "boulder" ( stability ball), with all of the children in the middle of the padded playing area between two coaches. The coaches roll the ball (gently) toward the players, trying to hit them. The players in the middle try not to get hit.

This game is fun and exhilarating for the kids, and it develops a number of skills, of course. Tracking and evading a large bouncing ball in a small space allows the kids to come up with a number of ways not to get hit by the ball. Not to sound too much like Patches O'Houlihan, but the kids do in fact come up with lots of different ways to dodge, duck, dip, and dive. The last player not to get hit wins the game. If a player catches the boulder while airborne, every player who is out gets to come back in.

Version two is simply a race. It was inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones running for his life from a boulder. Two athletes race the boulder (stability ball) to the crash mat. The goal is to dive onto the crash mat before the ball either hits them or hits the mat.

Hill Sprints Racing

I know what you are thinking: You make kids run hill sprints? That can't be much fun-the kids must hate this activity. Yes, hill sprints for the sake of torturing kids just to make them tired is a stupid idea. But, as Coach Carl Valle always says, the devil is in the details.

Let me digress for just a moment. I coach a lot of youth team sports, like football, baseball, and lacrosse, and speed is obviously a prerequisite to success in those sports. We also know that coordination is best developed between the ages of 5 and 12 and running fast is a highly coordinated activity. So, it makes sense to me to expose young athletes to some form of speed development work.

Because coordination is best developed from ages 5-12 and running fast is a highly coordinated activity, it makes sense to expose youth athletes to some form of speed development work. Click To Tweet

But why hill sprints? Well, that's simple: It's really hard to have poor form when sprinting up a hill. The hill provides the natural driving-forward lean seen during the acceleration phase of sprinting. On top of that, there is a strength and cardiovascular benefit for relatively untrained children as well. Here in New England, there is no shortage of hills to sprint.

To get the most out of hill sprints with kids, we almost always make it a race. The kids line up two at a time and race each other. This makes the lines longer, which is a good thing. We want decent rest periods between sprints. We have to remember that we are training speed and not conditioning here. The racing component ties it all together because the kids get excited to race and always put forth a good effort.

If a hill is not available, or you find yourself indoors, we have found resisted pushing races to be both exciting for the kids and beneficial for sprinting, especially driving through the ground with the legs.

Tug of War

When talking strength development concepts for children, old-school Tug of War games are a must. Besides being fun and competitive, which gets all the kids excited, they are a total-body maximum effort activity. Pulling on a rope involves some serious quasi-isometric tension in the grip, arms, shoulders, back, and legs. Large groups can play Tug of War using a rope, and smaller groups of kids can use a medicine ball, a stick, or even grasping hands.

Have kids get creative by standing on one foot or standing inside a Hula-Hoop and trying to pull each other out. One of my favorite "strength" circuits for my 8- to 10-year-olds involves combining a series of animal moves, like 20 yards of bear crawls, followed by some lateral climbing across a pull-up bar, followed by sled pushes, and finally Tug of War. These are a fun and challenging series of exercises that functionally hit just about every part of the body.

If we want training to carry over to real sports situations, then we need to expose young athletes to a variety of movements and environments. Games are fantastic options because they put athletes in the often-chaotic and competitive environment of sports. In many court and field sports, the conditions and movements of the game change frequently.

Drills are pre-programmed and robotic, and coaches use them to refine very specific movements; games and races are a bit more global and rely on the young athletes coming up with different ways to accomplish a task. When it comes to working with athletes, the refining process should occur in the later years. The early years should consist of as much global movement as possible.

Don't forget how engaging games are for young athletes. With so many kids quitting sports because it's not enjoyable to them-games are a creative way to get kids to like movement. Click To Tweet

Finally, let's not forget how engaging games are for young athletes. If they find an activity enjoyable, they are much more likely to put forth an honest effort and continue with that activity. These days, far too many young athletes are quitting sports because it's not enjoyable for them. We need to find creative ways to get more kids to like movement. The more enjoyable they find an activity, they longer they stay.

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9 (Fun!) Games to Develop Movement Skills and Athleticism - SimpliFaster

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It's no secret that kids love to play games, and youth coaches should take advantage of that to develop athletic skills. By manipulating a game's rules, environment, and participants, coaches can get different desired outcomes. Coach Jeremy Frisch relies on games in his training of young athletes, especially the nine listed here, which are his favorites.

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The purpose of the toolkit is to give volunteers and members of staff in sporting organisations a clear understanding of what they need to do to include young members aged between 10 and 18 years in decision-making. Workshop topics include planning a session, facilitation and inclusion.

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Physical Literacy Handbook for Early Childhood Educators

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Physical Literacy Handbook for Early Childhood Educators

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Physical Literacy Handbook for Early Childhood Educators - PLAY in Peel

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This handbook will help ECEs and early years educators incorporate a variety of fundamental movement skills into the child care’s programming to influence the

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Helping parents raise physically literate kids. Parents and educators will find fun kids' activities, engaging articles, and free resources.

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Tennis Taster Day Schedule Template for schools

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Tennis Taster Day Schedule Template for schools

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Teachers please complete this schedule ahead of the day for our coach to enable them to plan for the day.

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The Lifelong Participation and Long-Term Player Development Pathway 

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The Lifelong Participation and Long-Term Player Development Pathway provides information for parents, teachers, coaches, officials, volunteers, and players, on the progressive capacities that need to be developed for participants to achieve excellence in tennis, while at the same time, promote life-long participation in our sport as one of the best health-enhancing physical activities participants can do

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Skill Development Exercises for novice players

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Play and Stay Assistant Programme - Tennis Ireland

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Skill Development Exercises for novice players

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Coaches FACILITATORS GUIDE Teacher Training

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Teachers please complete this registration form for our records and to send to our coach, ahead of the taster day to ensure for a successful day for all!

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Round Robin Manual for Lunchtime Leagues

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This Video is for Teachers & Coaches and provides a brief demonstration of the activities that can be set up in any school yard.
The video also demonstrates the different skills relevant to the various classes from infants to 6th class and the Achievement Certificates associated with the skills.

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Tennis Ireland have summarised the 10 requirements we expect all our club's to have in place in this document to ensure they are compliant with the Children's First legislation, guidance and affiliation requirements for TI.

They are:

1. Risk Assessment & Safeguarding Statement

2. Club Constitution amended to reflect Child Protection

3. Children's Officers

4. Designated Liaison Person

5. Club Committee and Monthly Agenda

6. Safeguarding Training

7. Recruitment

8. Codes of Behaviour

9. Complaints

10. Supervision

1. Risk Assessment

The risk assessment considers the potential for harm to come to children whilst they are in care and precedes the Child Safeguarding Statement (Section 11 (1b) Children First Act 2015) which is developed following this risk assessment process. In accordance with the requirements of Section 11 (1) of the Children First Act 2015 (ROI) the risk is of abuse and not general health and safety risk (covered under a separate H&S policy and risk assessment).

Section 11 (1) of the Children First Act 2015 (ROI) states that where an organisation proposes to operate as a provider of a relevant service, they shall, within 3 months from the date on which they commence as such a provider undertake an assessment of any potential for harm to a child while availing of the service.

The Children First Act 2015 (ROI) requires organisations in Ireland that are providers of relevant services to prepare a Child Safeguarding Statement. This is good practice and a funding requirement for all sporting organisations throughout Ireland. The Child Safeguarding Statement is a written statement that specifies the service being provided and the principles, that a child availing of the service is safe from harm. Your service should ensure that your Child Safeguarding Statement has due regard to the Children First Guidance or equivalent and any other child protection guidelines issued by the relevant government departments or any guidelines issued by statutory authorities concerning Child Safeguarding Statements.

What the Child Safeguarding Statement should contain

As outlined above, the Children First Act 2015 (ROI) places obligations on organisations that provide relevant services to children. Tennis Ireland require all our club's North and South to meet these safeguarding obligations to ensure a fun and safe experience for young people in Tennis.

These obligations are:

1. To keep children safe from harm while they are using the service (section 10) and promote the paramount principle that the welfare of the child is core.

2. To carry out a risk assessment (See Tennis Ireland Appendix 2 for guidance developing a Risk Assessment & Safeguarding Statement) to identify whether a child or young person could be harmed while using the service (section 11.3). This risk assessment should be reviewed regularly but at least every 2 years by the club board.

3. To develop a Child Safeguarding Statement (section 11.3) which must include both the written risk assessment and the procedures that are in place to support all the risks and appoint a relevant person to be the first point of contact in respect of the organisations Child Safeguarding Statement.

The Safeguarding Statement must be signed by the club chairperson and the Children's Officer and posted in a prominent place for all to see.

2. Club Constitution amended to reflect Child Protection

Sample minimum text below...

Any Tennis Club is fully committed to safeguarding the well being of its members. Every individual in the club should at all times show respect and understanding for their rights, safety and welfare, and conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles of the club and the guidelines contained in the Safeguarding Children and Young People in Tennis Manual

3. Children's Officers

Because Tennis is a sport for both genders, it's critical that there are male and female children's officers appointed. The Children's Officers should be made known to all club members and photographs of each Officer should be posted on the wall of the club and on the club website.

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 6 on roles and responsibilities.

4. Designated Liaison Person

The committee should appoint a Designated Liaison Person for the Club.

This post ideally should be held by the most senior person on the committee. In some cases, however, the Children's Officers takes on this role.

The DLP will be the reporting officer in the case of a safeguarding incident that is of the threshold of needing to be referred. This duty to refer is if the incident is committed by a club member or a club members has experienced abuse outside of the club setting, but the club representatives have been made aware of the abuse. Reports will be submitted to the officer on duty in the TUSLA /Social Services or to the Guards/PSNI in the case of an emergency. Statutory agencies can also be contacted for advice.

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 7 for reporting a disclosure.

5. Club Committee and Monthly Agenda

One of the Children's Officers or the Designated Person should sit on the Club's Executive Committee to report on Safeguarding.

Children's Officers are not expected to work in isolation. They should have the full support of all those serving on the committee. Firstly, while facilitating the completion of the club safeguarding risk assessment and secondly, it's continued support in order to maintain consistency while implementing the clubs safeguarding policies in the years ahead.

The committee are also responsible for the recruitment of replacement Children's Officers in the event of either one of the Officers resigning from his or her post.

Safeguarding must be an item on the Club's Executive Committee Monthly Agendas

Again, Children's Officers are not expected to work in isolation or tasked with adopting Tennis Irelands Safeguarding Policies for the club on their own.

They are, however, expected to lead the implementation of the clubs policies and procedures and should have the full support of all those serving on the committee.

Ample time should be set aside on the monthly Agenda to discuss Safeguarding.

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 6 on roles and responsibilities.

6. Safeguarding Training

The Club's Children's Officers must complete Sport Ireland's Safeguarding 1 Course which is the Basic Awareness Training.

In addition to attending Safeguarding 1 Training, Children's Officers must attend Safeguarding 2 training and the Designated Liaison Persons must attend a Safeguarding 3 course.

The Courses are aimed specifically at Children's Officers and Designated Liaison Persons to support them in their roles as Children's Officers and DLP's within their clubs.

The courses are delivered on demand by the Local Sports Partnerships.

For contact information on the nearest Sports Partnership to your area click here or contact your Regional Development Officer.

For Northern Ireland, all courses are delivered by SportNI via the local council sports development unit.

Contact [email protected] for more information.

All Club Coaches and Committee Members working with children should also complete the Safeguarding 1 Course

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 5 for more information on safeguarding training.

7. Recruitment

All coaches should be licensed with Tennis Ireland, possess an up to date first aid certificate and only work with the Level of players relevant to their coaching qualification.

A robust recruitment process should be in place for all those people working with children's activities, including vetting, reference checks and at the very least, an informal interview process for all committee members, coaches, contractors and employees.

Tennis Ireland and the Ulster Branch of Tennis Ireland facilitate the National Vetting Bureau and AccessNI checks respectively.

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 4 for information on recruitment.

8. Codes of Behaviour

All Club members, coaches and parents should sign up to the relevant code.

Clubs should provide a process for new and existing members to sign up to the Tennis Ireland Working with Children and Young People in Tennis Document and the clubs safeguarding policies and procedures.

The Tennis Ireland Manual can be found here.
Sample declaration for signing up to the safeguarding policies and procedures
I have read the Tennis Ireland Working with Children and Young People in Tennis Document and the clubs safeguarding policies and procedures.

Signature of Member ___________________________

Print Name _____________________

Signature of Parent/ Guardian*. ___________________

Print Name ____________________

Date ______________

*Please note that the person signing the parent/guardian section must ensure they have parental responsibility for the child.

9. Complaints

All clubs must have a complaints procedure in place.

Tennis Ireland has Disciplinary Rules and Procedures in place which are binding upon Provincial Branches, Affiliated organisations, all Members and all Individual Associates in accordance with Article (31b) of the Articles of Association of Tennis Ireland Ltd.

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 8 for further details on the Disciplinary Rules and for guidance on breaches of codes of behaviour.

10. Supervision

All children's activities must have the proper adult supervision at all times.

There should be two adults present during all children's activities organised by the clubs committee or sub committees. In most cases, this will include, coaching, training, competition, organised play and social events. Where mixed gender activities are taking place and where practicable, there should be one male and one female adult present.

The club can not accept responsibility for independent recreational play. For example, two juniors arriving at the club on their own to play a game. It is strongly recommended that if parents are encouraging their children to play independently of the clubs organised activities that two of the parents stay for the duration of the activity.

See Tennis Ireland Appendix 9 for further guidance on supervision

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Connacht Tennis is the provinicial branch of Tennis Ireland - the governing body for Tennis on the island of Ireland.

The main functions of Tennis Ireland

Safeguarding

Club Development

Tennis 10s and Junior Tennis Programmes

Senior & Veterans Tennis Events & Leagues

Enjoy Tennis Programmes for Players with a Disability

Performance Squads & Interprovincial Teams

The Connacht Branch of Tennis Ireland is made up of representatives from each of the affiliated clubs in Connacht
Connacht Tennis Key Activities

Help to develop a unified approach in Connacht to increase participation and improve standards at all levels

To maintain a web site for Connacht Tennis

To represent Connacht Clubs at Tennis Ireland Board meetings

To enhance all existing branch led activities and events

To select and support all Senior Interprovincial teams

To facilitate Connacht junior Interprovincial and regional tennis squads

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Munster Tennis is happy to announce that entries are now open for the Munster Tennis PRIMARY & SECONDARY Schools Tennis Championships 2024 .

This year the Competition will be fully online on Tennis Ireland Tournament Software. There is the option of entering the more traditional way but also via an online Form.

Changes to the rules have been made to encourage more entries and expand the competition further. The main highlights are as follows:

1. Schools may amalgamate to enter teams where necessary. However, there must be at least 2 players from one School and this School will be deemed the home venue. All Schools must agree to this amalgamation. This is allowed to encourage more schools to enter, to allow mixed teams from and expand the reach of the Event. It has also been introduced to allow all boys and all girls schools to enter mixed teams.

Note: It is important to understand that while this rule is there to facilitate smaller schools who haven't enough players to participate and it has also been introduced to allow all boys and all girls schools to enter mixed teams. It is not intended that large schools would "load teams" with the best players from 2 schools etc. It is only to be used if a school has no other players available. This will be monitored by Munster Tennis.

2. Competitions are adjusted to reduce the number of courts required for a tie from 3 to 2 for some events and thus the boys and girls events will be doubles only. The Mixed competitions will still retain singles to ensure there is still plenty of choice for players and these events will still require 3 courts.
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3. The Primary Schools Competition has an additional "GREEN BALL" event to cater for Children who are not as experienced who have not transitioned to yellow ball and will get more enjoyment from this event.

4. The events are starting earlier this year and will finish in the first half of May following feedback received in recent years.

Rules of The Munster Schools Tennis Championships are available via the links below along with an online Entry Form which can be completed and submitted ahead of the Closing Date of Wednes day 28th February 2024.

​Should you have any queries regarding Schools Tennis and any of our juniors / schools competitions, please email admin@munstertennis.ie

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Details of the competitions and events run by Munster Tennis for Primary and Secondary Schools throughout the Province of Munster.

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Please read, print, sign and return by email to Schools Coordinator.

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