WITH only three weeks left for the Tennis SA Hot Shots clinic, trainers have noticed big improvements in their little champions.<\/p>\n
Run by the Keith Tennis Club in conjunction with Tennis SA, volunteer coach Kristy Clark said children participating in the eight week clinic had shown great improvement.<\/p>\n
Reception to Year 2 players had gone from very little coordination to small rallies.<\/p>\n
The Year 3 to 7 players had learned how to score games and also produce rallies.<\/p>\n
At the end of the clinic players get their own T-shirt and become members of Tennis SA.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that we (Keith Tennis Club) have had a Tennis Club) have had a really good seasons hopefully children come back for a proper (modified) competition and obviously<\/p>\n
Hot Shots for the little kids next year,\u201d Mrs Clark said.<\/p>\n
There are now three weeks left for the clinics which began in early February to interested children and volunteer parents.<\/p>\n
Coordinator Jane Thompson said the class had gone really well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had support from Tennis SA\u2019s coaching and development officer Andrew Wilson who had come down for a few training sessions to run the Hot Shots program,\u201d Mrs Thompson said.<\/p>\n
Run each Saturday, children\u2019s classes up to Year 2 work on a rotation Year 2 work on a rotation format.<\/p>\n
Starting with a five minute warm up session, then on to activities. Groups are taught in a number of six.<\/p>\n
The program started in 2012 because of interest shown from children coming to support their parents play on Saturdays.<\/p>\n
The Keith Tennis Club has 51 members, with many having helped out in getting the club up and running.<\/p>\n
Ms Thompson said the club \u201care very fortunate to have good committee and club members and volunteers to help with the club.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year there are 81 children signed up to be Little future \u2018hots involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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