About Us
Hackney City Tennis Clubs [HCTC] exists to
provide and promote the opportunity for everyone to play tennis
in Hackney
parks and schools.
There
are coaching sessions for Juniors and Adults at all levels as well as a
thriving Junior Club and Adult Social Club. We currently have 19 teams
playing regular matches:
History
Clissold
Park Junior Tennis Club was established in September 1999 with a pay
and play
session on Saturday mornings for 15 – 20 children.
- December 1999
the club
was properly constituted and became affiliated to the Lawn Tennis
Association
(LTA).
The
pay and play sessions continued throughout the spring and summer terms
with the
numbers attending gradually increasing.
- Year 2000 ,
tennis
camps held during the Easter and summer holidays.
- September
2000, with a £4,600 grant from Awards for All, the club
was able to purchase equipment, send local volunteers on coaching
courses and
introduce 6 x 1 hour coaching courses catering for different ages and
abilities. The club also introduced an indoor mini red tennis course
using the
gym at Kingsland School.
With numbers growing, we
attracted the attention of the LTA who
were looking for a suitable venue to launch the ‘City Tennis Clubs’
initiative.
- April 2001 it
was agreed with the LTA and LB of Hackney that Clissold Park
Junior Tennis Club should become the pilot project for the City Tennis
Clubs
programme. Four courts were totally refurbished, including new fencing
and the
total cost was met by the LTA.
- June 2001 the
City Tennis Clubs initiative launched nationally at
Clissold Park.
- 2002 the
remaining 4 courts at Clissold Park were refurbished by the LTA
By
2003 the ‘Club Structure’ for Juniors was completed. This provides the
entry and
exit routes for players aged 3 – 16 years and the activities offered at
each
stage.
- A
3 year sponsorship package from Barclays Capital in September 2003 has
enabled
the club to develop a performance programme.
24 players between the ages of 7 and 13
years have been nominated as
‘Tour Players’ and 10 players under 8 years have been nominated as
‘Mini Tour
Players’. All these players are receiving subsidised coaching sessions.
- Clissold Park Junior Tennis Club was one of the
first LTA nationally accredited Mini Tennis Centres and in
- April 2003, Clissold Park Junior Tennis Club
given County Performance status.
- There are currently in excess of 1,400 Juniors
and 400 Adults in the player database.
Schools
Program
The
clubs schools programme started in January 2001 and since then we have
had
coaches working in curricular and extra – curricular time in Hackney
primary
and secondary schools.
The
club is working closely with the SSCO programme to ensure there is
quality
tennis development in schools.
Primary
schools are attached to secondary schools in the borough through
cluster groups
and each cluster group is linked to the existing, or planned, tennis
facilities
in the borough.
It
is possible that tennis clubs could be developed at each of these sites
which
would enhance the school/ club links programme.
HCTC organises the Hackney Schools
competitive programme which, at the moment,
includes:
Primary
- Mini Tennis
Red tournament
(Years 3 and below) – Summer Term
- Mini Tennis
Orange Festival
and Tournament (Years 5 and below) – Summer Term
- Mini Tennis Green Festival and
Tournament (Years 6 and below) – Summer Term
Winning
teams from all these events represent Hackney in the Middlesex County
Schools
Final.
Secondary
- 13 and under
girls and boys
tournaments – Summer Term – one day event
- 15 and under girls and boys
tournaments – Summer Term – one day event
Winning
teams represent Hackney in the Middlesex Shield competition.
Schools
are encouraged to become members of the BSTA and enter the BSTA
tournaments.
Adults
- March 2001 the adult section was started.
By the summer there
were 7 fully subscribed coaching sessions and 150 players on the
database.
- The first men's team played in the Middlesex
Winter League in 2002.
There are now over 400 adult players
on the database, there is an adult committee and an adult development
coach has been appointed.
Our current teams are:
- Middlesex Winter Floodlit League
- Men's, Ladies, Mixed and Vets teams
- .Middlesex Summer League.
- 2 Men's and 2 Ladies team s
- National Club League (NCL)
- Middlesex Cup.
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