Selwyn Times: January 25, 2023

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Wednesday January 25 2023 Selwyn Times
SPORT 23
$60k to make sure youngsters
‘reach their potential’ on court
TENNIS Canterbury has been
granted $60,000 to get more
people playing the sport.
General manager Bevan
Johns said the grant will allow
the organisation to focus on
participation and development
initiatives to ensure young
talented players “reach their
potential at all levels.”
“Tennis Canterbury delivers
services to over 7000 members
and a further
30,000-plus
participants
in various
programmes
and casual
participation
Bevan
opportunities.”
The funding
from New Zealand
Johns
Community Trust aims to keep
participation costs down and
remove barriers to participation,
Johns said.
“Tennis Canterbury is about
making it easy for everyone to
discover or re-discover tennis
and to help our players find
enjoyment through tennis for
life.”
The grant will help the
organisation run its beginner
hotshots programme and
get juniors to national and
international competitions.
“During the current season we
trialled the first iteration of the
Canterbury player development
programme in preparation for
the annual national teams event.
The region’s top six girls and six
boys in the 12U, 14U and 17U
age groups got together weekly
to practice and prepare for the
event. Training included doubles
strategy, mental preparation,
fitness and nutrition planning.”
The grant will help Canterbury
players like Lucia Gale who
won the national under-14 title,
beating fellow Cantabrian Dallas
King-Ehau in the final. Lucia
also took out the doubles title
and competed at the under-16
nationals where she won the
doubles.
Alvin Na won the under-12
boys singles and doubles final,
while Aliyah Daly won the
under-12 girls doubles.
TALENT:
The grant
will help
young tennis
players,
including
Lucia Gale
(above) who
won the
national
under-14 title.
Five Canterbury players,
including Lucia, took part in the
national teams competition in
Australia last year.
The funding will go towards
the New Zealand regional
programme for 11 to 14-yearolds,
run by coach Stuart
Chalmers at Wilding Park.
It brings the best players in
Canterbury together to train
with experts in strength and
conditioning and other aspects
of the game. Said Chalmers:
“This programme ensures
opportunities for our junior
players to train together. We
are now looking to extend it
for players in the 15-plus age
bracket. We need to keep these
young talented players in the
game.”
Tennis Canterbury also has
a strong wheelchair tennis
community. Travis Moffat won
the recent national singles title
and Glenn Barnes was runnerup.
The two went on to win the
doubles championship. Seniors
tennis is also strong in the region
and there are programmes for
players in the Tongan tennis
community.
With more than 500 juniors
and 550 adults competing in
summer interclub across the
region, Tennis Canterbury relies
on its small number of staff and
network of clubs, coaches and
volunteers to grow the game.
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