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Cambridge LTC, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0EQ  

Clubhouse phone  
01223 312550  
email info@cambridgeltc.com

Quick Links Easter Holiday Junior Coaching Camps 2008 Coaching Programme    - Juniors    - Adults    Free coaching  CLTC Performance Pathway  Download Application Forms & Programme   Whether you are a complete beginner wanting to play tennis for the first time, or a very experienced player wanting to sharpen your technique for match play, you will find a course and a coach to suit you. A team of professional coaches offers a wide range of courses for members and non-members of all ages and abilities. Both adults and children are catered for through our extensive programme of group coaching, and private lessons can be arranged on request with any of our regular coaches.  As well as helping you to improve your play, our group coaching sessions provide a great opportunity for you (and your children) to meet other members of the club of a similar standard

Easter Holiday Junior Coaching Camps

Tuesday 25th March to Saturday 29th March

• Daily basic ball skills and mini-tennis for ages 4-7

• Daily tennis coaching for ages 8-16

• Staffed by our registered coaches

• Children can join anything from single sessions to the full week – discount for full weeks!

• Places are limited - to guarantee a place you must book in advance

 Download  Flyer/Application Form

Summer 2008 Coaching Programme 

The first block of coaching runs for 6 weeks from Monday14th April until Sunday 25th May.

Junior Coaching Programme

Block 1  6 weeks: Monday 14^th April – Sunday 25^th May

Block 2 7  weeks: Monday 2^nd June –Sunday 20^th July

Blocck 3 7 weeks Monday 8^th September–Sunday 26^th October

All junior courses must be booked and paid for in advance.

The course may be cancelled if not enough pre-bookings are made.

Application forms for all the above courses can be downloaded below or collected from the club house. For more information about any of the courses, please contact info@cambridgeltc.com or call 01223 312550 / 07749 713450.

All junior courses must be booked and paid for in advance

Download the Junior programme as a PDF file
Download a Coaching Application Form

CLTC Performance Pathway

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Voted LTA Coach of the Year 2007, Sue Rich, CLTC's head coach, receives her award from Brad Gilbert at Wimbledon.

Mini tennis coaching

Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club is a mini tennis accredited club. It has an extensive mini tennis programme which for the current year (2007–8) covers the following age ranges:  

• Mini red (born in 2000, 2001 and later)
• Mini orange (born in 1999 and 2000)
• Mini green (born in 1998 and 1999)

Coaching sessions at the club give children the opportunity to play up to four times a week.

The most promising children are invited to join the ACES scheme. The coaching groups are smaller and children of a similar standard are grouped together. They are expected to play twice a week, play in mini tennis tournaments and have a desire to improve. The ACES scheme is subsidised by the club – if the players enrol for more than one lesson a week, the second and third lessons are offered at reduced rates. Selected children are also offered subsidised individual lessons with the head coach as part of the scheme to encourage them to commit to their tennis and help them improve at a faster level.

The next stage to this development are tennis camps (both indoors or outdoors) for selected players from the club. The children come together for two to three hours at weekends, half terms and holidays to practise and compete against one another.

Mini tennis tournaments

We are committed to introducing players to competition in a friendly environment where they learn the rules of the game, how to score, to win and lose and to behave in competition. The club runs a series of mini tennis tournaments at the three levels (red, orange and green) for both individuals and teams. Individual tournaments are open to anyone to enter from the club or any other club in the area. Team events are open to local clubs to enter and are made up of four players per team, one member of which must be a girl.

The club enters teams into tournaments held at other clubs in the region (e.g. Huntingdon Tennis Club and Next Generation Club). These team competitions have proved highly successful for those of a young age.

CLTC’s mini red team (Abigail Callaghan, Calum Thornton, Peter Cooke and Nathan Spies) celebrate their silver medal at Huntingdon Tennis Club in November 2007

Starter tournaments

As the players come out of the mini tennis programme at about the age of nine they can then participate in the club starter tournament programme which is an ideal way for players to get an LTA rating. These are held in school holidays, particularly half-term holidays.

Talent days

The best players from the club are invited every two or three months to a county talent day where they are looked at by the talent performance coordinator from the LTA and some of the county coaches. Selected players are then invited to special county training sessions where they get together with players of a similar standard from around the county.

From here players may then be selected for a regional and ultimately national talent day. As a club our role is initially to get as many players as possible to the county talent days and then hope that some players will be invited to the regional days.

High performance centre

We are lucky to have a High Performance Centre in Cambridge based at Hills Road Sports and Tennis Centre. The best players from the locality and surrounding counties train and practise at the centre from about the age of 8. The top players from the club, if they are of the right standard, are invited to attend sessions to enhance their overall programme. The aim is for our players to do some sessions at the club and some at Hills Road .  

Pippa Horn (second on left) the Great Britain Under 12 number 1 player in 2007, meets the Queen at the opening of the Roehampton National Tennis Centre in March 2007

If and when the player is of the appropriate standard and the club cannot give them the programme they require, they would then do more of their training at Hills Road . They would still play for the club in matches and competitions. Current members who do this are Robin Goodman, Amanda Black, Laura Oates, Irina Dulbish, Stella Gordon, Pippa Scotcher and Pippa Horn. Although they do most of their coaching at Hills Road the club is still their home.

Adult Programme