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Next Generation get a Cambridgeshire Kick-Start

27 May, 2006

Next Generation - The Cambridgeshire got the TIA UK’s grass roots programme, Kick-Start Tennis, underway for 2006 when the club played host to nearly 100 youngsters ranging from 7 to 16 years of age on Saturday 27 May.

The idea of the Kick-Start Tennis Campaign is to attract kids to the game, showing them what fun it is to play and, hopefully, embarking them on a life-long association with the sport.

Local organiser Ros Wombwell explained: “This is a game for life and our aim is encourage children to take up the sport young and to continue playing all their lives."

All set and ready to go...

From left to right, Next Generation's Tennis Director, Ros Wombwell, with Jan Booth, MD of Sunbaba and the TIA UK Chairman, Henry Wancke (Tennis Today Magazine)

Everyone who joined in had a lively warm-up session first with Kelly Reed, YMCA / Action UK National Fitness Presenter of the Year, and her team of instructors, before being put through their paces on the tennis courts by the coaching team headed by Nick Brown.

Each participant received a goodies bag on arrival and registration that included a specially commissioned TIA UK Kick-Start Tennis T-shirt by Vantage Sport and a water bottle from K-Swiss.

After a couple of hours of hectic activity during which a variety of skills were measured by the coaches resulting in a long list of 'winners' who received a wide variety of prizes for their efforts, including T-shirts and lanyards/key caps from K-Swiss, teddy bears and shirts from Love All, tennis balls from J Price (Bath) and annual subscriptions to Tennis Today magazine, and three special awards presented by The Silver Tennis Collection.

The TIA UK is this country's only trade association for tennis businesses whose mission is to increase participation in the game and to promote, foster and protect industry growth and vitality in the UK.

The Kick-Start Tennis Campaign is the TIA UK's flagship grass roots programme.

For More Information Contact:

Tennis Industry Association UK
48 Braeside, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1SU, UK
Tel: 020 8249 3366
FAX: 020 8249 5669
Email: info@tiauk.org

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