I’m excited to share some important updates we’ve just received from World Tennis. These changes will shape the junior game in 2027 and beyond, and they bring real opportunities for our players here in Barbados Play by birth year From Week 1 of 2027, players can enter the World Tennis Tour Juniors based on their year of birth. Anyone born […]
The Barbados Tennis Association’s tournament and events calendar for September to December 2026 is here! From national championships and junior tournaments to international competition, money tournaments, the Top 8s and our Christmas Junior Tournament and Camp, there’s plenty of tennis to look forward to this season. Dates for your diary: All events take place at the Raymond Forde National Tennis […]
November 5 – 7 2021! November 5 – Building Skills, Growing Confidence and Developing a Love for the Game; November 6 – The Views of a Tennis Pro: an Open Conversation ; and more.
Read this interesting article by John Goede, and check out COTECC’s new and improved website.
The 2020 Davis Cup Finals and the 2020 Fed Cup Finals will not happen before 2021.
The Government of Barbados has not yet been issued the green light permitting the resumption of play for tennis. In the interim, we encourage you to review the ITF’s recently released Return to Tennis Guidelines!
Are you a tennis parent? Do you want to better under the benefits of children participating in tennis, your roles and responsibilities as a supportive tennis parent, and other tips? See ITF’s ‘Parents of Beginner Players – Introduction to Tennis’ for the answers.
The ITF states that “The new app will be an essential tool to communicate those rules, including the latest amendments, to the millions of people involved in tennis – from those at the top of the sport to recreational players across the world.”
To assist the 164,000 tennis coaches globally during this time of uncertainty, the ITF is making more resources on its ITF Academy platform available for free for the duration of this period of imposed shutdown.
Coaches Damien Applewhaite and Andrew Thornton head to Bangkok Thailand for the ITF Worldwide Coaches Conference 2019 (25 – 27, October 2019)