Head Coach Vinny Duddy and Club Coach Craig Phillips visited Berrow and Burnham Infants Schools to go through some fun tennis games that the teaching staff could do with the children.  The pair spent 4 mornings at the 2 schools going through a variety of games (including Ghost in the Graveyard, Exterminator, Serving Battleships, etc) , which can be played indoors and would allow the children and teachers to make good use of the FREE tennis equipment that they obtained from the Tennis Foundation sponsored by Aegon.  Duddy said it was really good to see so manyn kids enjoying tennis at school and he hoped that he had given the teachers some new ideas of games to play to encourage the children to play some more tennis.  The coaches will be visiting the schools again during February/early March to go through the games again and to promote their Club Open Day on Sunday , 18^th Mar from 11:00 till 1:00.  More pictures from the sessions are on the club’s website – www.avenuetennis.com.

Duddy also wanted to remind all youngsters from 14 to 25 that the Avenue tennis club had a new membership deal, suppported by SASP (Somerset Activity and Sports Partnership) which included membership and coaching on a Tuesday evening from 7:30 till 9:00pm until Mar 12 for only £15, he said that the deal also included entry to an Olympic Ticket Draw and that if they had enough support a visit to a session from a prominent British sportsperson.

Duddy advised that Vinny’s Minis would resume on Friday 20^th Jan at 6:30.  Vinny’s Minis was started in Aug 2003 in order to allow adults the opportunity to bring their children along and join in the adult coaching or social match play on Friday evenings.  Due to the success of the evening the 2 hour session was split into two hour long FREE sessions for up to year group 3 children from 6:30 till 7:30 and up to year group 6 from 7:30 till 8:30.  Duddy said the idea behind the evening is to have some fun on a tennis court whilst doing lots of fun games and coordination exercises with rackets, balls and any other equipment we can use. He also said it was an ideal way to introduce young children to tennis and that he would like to encourage more parents to come along to the club and try it out.

The next Adult Social Doubles Tournament will be held at the club on Sunday 29^th Jan from 11:00; Duddy said these are fairly competitive but fun events and would encourage anyone to come down to the club and have a go to see if they like competitive tennis.

Cardio Tennis is a fun, hard working and hitting fitness session a tennis court.  Sessions will resume at the tennis club on Wednesday evenings from 7:30 till 8:30 – you don’t need to be a tennis player to join in these sessions – contact Vinny for more details – 01278 782758.

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