Mini Tots Tennis is for children aged 3 to 5.
These sessions focus on learning the basics to the sport, while engaged in a series of fun engaging activities. At this stage the focus is on building up fundamental skills such as agility, balance, co-ordination and speed. We like to call them the ABC'S and believe they are vital for development setting children up for tennis and other sports as well. Our tots sessions are led by LTA qualified coaches.
We offer a wide range of Junior Tennis Course for all juniors aged between 3-16 years old. All courses are run by LTA accredited coaches who will work with juniors to develop their skills and understanding of the sport. Courses are designed to be fun and engaging, but also giving the juniors a safe and controlled environment to practice their skills which have been learnt from their coaches.
Whether juniors have participated in tennis before, or if they are completely new to the sport we have something to offer everyone.
Mini Tennis Red: Mini tennis red is for players aged 8 and under. During this stage they will learn the fundamentals of tennis whilst playing on a smaller court with smaller rackets and softer balls. This allows them to develop key skills such as forehands and backhands whilst being able to rally with the coaches and their peers.
Mini Tennis Orange: Mini Tennis orange is for players aged 8 and 9. Mini tennis orange is a great way for players to progress from mini tennis red. During this stage they will again be playing with smaller rackets and softer balls. The court will be bigger than red stage but still not full sized. Mini tennis orange allows juniors to develop a more rounded game and start learning basic tactics before progressing onto a full size court.
Mini Tennis Green: Mini tennis green is for juniors aged 9 and 10.Mini Tennis Green is played on a full size court with bigger rackets but the balls are still slightly softer then normal yellow balls. During Mini tennis green our LTA qualified coaches will start developing all aspects of their game on the full sized courts.
Yellow Ball Tennis: Players who are at this stage of their tennis pathway will be playing on full size courts with adult sized rackets as well as full yellow tennis balls. At this age the emphasis on tactical and technical development around match related skills.
Adults Tennis Courses are available to book. A free adult assessment is available to enrol onto where by players are given the opportunity to hit with the Adult Coach, who will assess their current playing standard and inform you as to which course is best suited for your development. We have a wide range of lesson and courses availble for begginer adults through to advance.
As part of our adult lessons and courses we host a club night every Thursday 6-8pm, free for all members to join.
Broken your racket perfecting that serve?
Well no need to worry, here at Delta Tennis Centre we offer an onsite restringing service.
Leave us your racquet and we'll restring it and get you back on court no problem. Choose from a selction of strings and grips.
Our Safeguarding Code of Conduct covers the supervision and care of children and young people. This sets out the behaviours and good practice required of all staff and others working on GLL premises.
We are proud to promote the British Tennis Safeguarding Policy Standards, Code of Behaviour and Reporting Procedures that demostrates our commitment to safeguard children and adults at risk.
Diversity and Inclusion Policy
The above policies are reviewed annually and updated as advised by the GLL National Safeguarding team.
GLL work alongside the Lawn Tennis Association to ensure all children, young people and adults at risk are safeguarded from abuse and have enjoyable tennis experirence.
Everyone who is involved in tennis has a shared responsibility to support this by promoting the welfare of all children, young perople and adults at risk.
The LTA Lead Safeguarding Officer is David Humphrey who can be contacted at safeguarding@lta.org.uk
For more information on our commmitments or on LTA minimum standards at Delta Tennis Centre please contact our Tennis Welfare Officer.