Following on from some really successful tennis taster sessions at various junior schools in the area Vinny Duddy (Avenue Tennis Club Head Coach) and Craig Phillips (Trainee Coach) visited East Huntspill school on Friday 27^th Mar on a cold, windy and wet day.   Despite the weather the pupils and teachers were in a very good frame of mind following their excellent results after their recent Ofsted visit.

The sessions were run for an hour at a time with each year group being put through their paces with some racket, sending and receiving skills in either the small gym or outside in the cold windy playground.

Vinny and Craig were really pleased with the year groups 4 and 5 who really made some progress with their forehands and backhands in the short time that they had.  Although it must be said that this school has a thriving Tennis after School Club were these skills have been practiced for the last couple of terms.

The sessions are funded through the Somerset LTA and backed by King Alfred’s Jean Paul Hoskins and Sarah Musset and at the time of writing Vinny and Craig have been to East Brent, Berrow, Brent Knoll, Lympsham, Beechfields and St Josephs.  Still to go are Mark, Burnham Infants and St John’s.

At the end of each session the children were offered a free hours coaching voucher to be taken at the Avenue Tennis Club on either a Friday at Vinny’s Minis or at the Saturday morning pay and play sessions.

The Avenue Tennis Club will be running another Junior Tennis Camp during the Easter school holidays following the success of the last one held in February.  The camp will run on both weeks of the holiday (Mon – Thur & Tue – Fri).  Bookings for both weeks, 1 week or on a daily basis can be done through the office on 01278 782758.

If you want any details about membership or other coaching courses which run throughout the week at the Avenue Tennis Club then please contact Head Coach, Vinny Duddy on 01278 782758 – www.avenuetennis.co.uk.