CityTennis

For those who play tennis in San Francisco

Advocacy for public and private tennis needs more voices and these organizations are grateful for any support in keeping our tennis community viable.

YOUTH TENNIS 

There are three organizations providing free tennis instruction to local residents:  San Francisco Junior Tennis League ,  Peanut Louie’s  Harperforkids.org and Tennis for Kids provide instruction only to SF residents, and Youth Tennis Advantage, the largest provider of tennis in the Bay Area has one site in San Francisco.  All three can use more volunteers and contributions.

TENNIS ADVOCACY GROUPS

There are a number of tennis advocacy groups.  Friends Of Golden Gateway is fighting for keeping the tennis courts at Golden Gateway Swim and Racquet club.  Members of San Francisco Tennis Club have started a city wide initiative to push for saving tennis in the city.   San Francisco Tennis Coalition is attempting to advocate for all the public tennis facilities in the city.

COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS

This website will only be relevant if you make suggestions and comments on how to improve the tennis in San Francisco. We welcome any suggestions on improving the city.  Since we posted the website we received a suggestion to start a website for juniors to address playing in the city and my SFJTL is considering expanding our mission to get more juniors playing through tournaments and free leagues by ability level.  We are going to launch our website during the fall after surveying many juniors that play in the city.

If this is successful we will address adult tennis players by conducting another survey.  Please send any suggestions,comments and ideas to  John Cervantes and we will reply within a week.

Join the CAL Women’s and Men’s Tennis Teams at the Berkeley Tennis Club as they battle it out with past greats for bragging rights and a good time. In addition to the tennis exhibition we will meet the 2010-2011 tennis teams, enjoy seeing fellow supporters of CAL Tennis, and cheering for our favorite players.
 
Festivities will start at 5:00 PM with refreshments, munchies, no-host bar, and the tennis exhibition featuring current and past tennis team members. A buffet dinner will follow the shoot out.
 
The Berkeley Tennis Club is located at One Tunnel Road, Berkeley, CA, 94705.
 
Tickets are only $40 for Adults and $15 for cubs under 12, when purchased in advance (please respond by August 27th). To RSVP and send payment, click here for form, or download below. Please return the completed form to Jenny Simon, Director of Olympic Sports Operations, Cal Athletics, 135B Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA 94720-4422. (Prices will be $50 and $25 at the door.)
 
See you there,

Peter & Amanda

For additional information about the event, e-mail Jenny Simon at
olympic.sports@berkeley.edu

Braden and the Mayor Want to Get Students Playing Tennis

Vic Braden, generally considered to be one of tennis’ best coaches, has launched a program pulling together every person associated with tennis in the city of Santa Ana, California for a united effort to get school children playing tennis. The mayor of Santa Ana, California, Miguel Pulido, a former collegiate tennis player is behind Braden’s idea and has convinced the city council to support the program.

Braden and his people are directing most of their time focusing on the predominantly Hispanic community of Santa Ana. The Hispanic population represents 52 % of their residents. This program is in sync with former USTA President, Franklin Johnson's stated goals to get more Hispanics into tennis.

The goal of the program is to saturate the city schools with after school tennis programs and expose no less than 2,000 students (primarily elementary school students) to tennis, although the program is for all kids from 8 to 18. . . the majority of the 500 students who were involved last year were elementary school students.

Braden is training adult supervisors who will volunteer their time in directing after school tennis activities. In addition, he is training high school students to assist the adult supervisors.

Mayor Pulido wants to turn Santa Ana into a tennis town that rivals the soccer explosion.

Braden Introduces Junior Tennis Ambassadors

Vic Braden, one of the world’s top coaches in a vast number of sports, including tennis, has a mind and imagination that goes at one speed---all out.

Now, after a couple years of development and testing, he is ready to launch Junior Tennis Ambassadors.

It is Braden’s contention that there are millions of young students who would love to play tennis if they had an easy entry point. It's rare that elementary and junior high schools have tennis courts, but there are tennis programs where students can learn the basics of tennis on asphalt playgrounds. Missing in schools are tennis coaches who are on duty five school days each week. The Junior Tennis Ambassador program teaches young elementary and junior high students to coach any student in their school at no cost. Experiments with young students have shown that they possess amazing abilities as athletic coaches, when properly trained.

The Junior Tennis Ambassador program provides free instruction for adult volunteers who will supervise young elementary and junior high school tennis coaches.

The young tennis coaches also receive free instruction that qualifies them as permanent tennis coaches for classmates throughout the school year.

There is every likelihood that the world will know and get involved with Junior Tennis Ambassadors, but going to www.juniortennisambassadors.com will get you in the know first.

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Adult League Committee seeks volunteer members to help steer and support the Adult League program. Meeting once monthly, they develop policy, rules, procedures, while making sure league play remains fun, fair and consistent with the National League Program.

League Championship Event, seeks courts, lots of them! Clubs, public parks or schools with 9 - 15 courts (or two nearby sites) are ideal sites for a District or Section Championship event. We're always looking for new sites in new locations throughout the section. Host facilities are compensated for courts and expenses; the 2-3 day event is run entirely by USTA NorCal staff and volunteers.

For questions or more information, contact Anna Elefant, Manager of Adult Leagues.

2010 League Calendar