Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court.

Tennis enjoys millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments (sometimes referred to as the "majors"): the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.

Please find below the new Guide to Schools Tennis 2010. This annual publication provides an overview of all the resource and support British Tennis offers schools and demonstrates the contribution made to delivering the 5 hour offer.

If you are aged 16-19 and would like to work at the World's Greatest Events please click here to read about a free Understanding Stewarding at Spectator Events BTEC Level 2 on 17th & 18th September at the Sunderland Tennis Centre.

North East Visually Impaired Tennis Club

Sound tennis is a game of tennis adapted for people who are blind and visually impaired, however fully sighted players can play as well. The game originates in Japan in the 1980s before the first national tournament took place in 1990. It was brought over to England in 2007. To see it being played on youtube, please click on the link below;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZELzVCvaHI

The club meets twice a month at Community pool, Tennis and Wellness centre, Silksworth Lane, SR3 1PD. They cater for all skill levels from very beginners who have never worked with a racket before to more experienced players. The club is planning to hold separate totally blind (b1) and visually impaired (b2, b3 and b4) sessions to make it more beneficial to players. The committee members of the North East Visually Impaired Tennis Club are all visually impaired and enjoy playing this game very much. There are competitions held in London in October and you can play singles and doubles games as well as mixed doubles games (a person who is fully sighted and a person who is visually impaired).

The club has been set up since January and are slowly growing in numbers. The club are wanting to spread the word about this game to lots of different organisations, people who are blind and visually impaired, but also schools, as this is a way of adapting a game if they have any children who have a sight problem. This means that they will not miss out on playing tennis as a lot do.

If you wish to see a demonstration of the game then if the venue please contact: Adele Waterfall-Brown on Mobile: 07725106573 or

Email: northeastvitennisclub@yahoo.com

Otherwise you can contact the tennis foundation (who supply the sound tennis balls) but also could give you more information on the game.

Tennis Foundation website http://www.tennisfoundation.org.uk/disabilitytennis/otherdisabilities/

The Metro Blind Sports are based in London, contact: Odette Battaral , Telephone: 0208 6754246, Email: odetteb@pocklington-trust.org.uk

Name :

Joanna Cunliffe

Job Title :

Tennis Development Manager North

Address :

County Office, Puma Tennis Centre, Silksworth Lane, Sunderland, SR3 1PD

Telephone Number :

0191 522 5005

Mobile :

0795 823 3715

Email :

Jo.Cunliffe@LTA.org.uk

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