Delta Tennis Centre - Newsletter March and April

DELTA TENNIS CENTRE March/April 2019
NEWSLETTER

Welcome to the March/April 2019 newsletter for Delta Tennis Centre. We hope you all had a relaxing Easter
holiday and we look forward to sharing all the exciting news with you this coming term.

DELTA CELEBRATES ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY! TEAM CHALLENGE SUCCESS

Delta celebrates its 30th Anniversary this April. The Centre was Team Challenge is a fun, social based tournament in which
originally opened by Princess Diana in 1989. As part of the players represent their club as a team and our players
celebration our tennis team visited 10 primary schools in the LOVE it! Working alongside local clubs Wanborough, Royal
local community and introduced over 1000 children to the Wooton Bassett and Ramsbury, the Swindon cluster host a
sport. The celebrations ended with over 800 people attending monthly social tournaments for different ages.
free activities at the centre on Sunday 7th April.
Waitrose, Swindon were on hand throughout the day to hand During March Delta hosted an Under 10s’ Team Challenge.
out fresh fruit and juice to and host wine tasting for all those Ramsbury came out on top, with Delta finishing 2nd. The end
on court with us. of March saw our 14 and under girls team visit Wanborough.
Thank you to all that helped us celebrate! April saw our 11 and under team compete in a green ball
tournament, where they narrowly finished 2nd missing out on
the top spot by only 3 points. Well done to all players who
have represented Delta in Team Challenge events.

For more information about upcoming
tournaments please contact [email protected]

HOLIDAY CAMPS

We hope you all enjoyed your Easter holidays. It was great to
see many of you on court with us during our holiday camps.
We are already preparing for May half-term this year. Our
holiday camps consist of tennis drills, cardio tennis, mini tennis,
team games, quizzes and matchplay.

Our May Half Term Holiday Learn Camps will be running
on the following dates:

May 28th, 29th and 30th, all 10am–3pm on outdoor courts.

Our Invite only Train Camps will be held on Thursday
30th May, 11am–4pm.

Our RED train camp will be 4–6pm on Wednesday 29th May.

If you would like to book your child’s place on May half-term camps please visit www.betterlessons.org.uk.
For more information on our holiday camps contact [email protected]

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TENNIS LEADERS SWINDON TOWN IN THE COMMUNITY

The end of March saw our tennis team given the tools to Delta Tennis Centre welcomed Swindon Town U7–12 on court
become our future coaches. A group of 15 young volunteers during the Easter holidays as part of the boys multi-sport
gained/obtained their tennis leaders awards. Tennis Leaders is training programme. They took part in touch tennis, a smaller
an exciting programme that gives young people the tools and more competitive variation of tennis.
expertise to help coach on our junior coaching programme.
For any community enquiries contact [email protected]
Say hello to our tennis leaders next time you are on court!

LOCAL PLAYER DEVELOPMENT UPDATE COLOURING IN BETWEEN THE LINES

Delta Tennis Centre was awarded the status of being As part of our 30th anniversary celebrations in April, the
a ‘Local Player Development Centre’ in 2018. Centre hosted a colouring in competition for all our juniors.
There were lots of great entries and it was great to see
LPDC’s aims are to attract athletic children into the game everyone’s artwork on the wall. The winners were selected by
and nurture their tennis development. They will provide local, our tennis team during the centre birthday party. There were
welcoming, inspiring and affordable training and competition. two categories in the competition: under 8s and 8+.

LPDC’s programmes are for kids aged 7–10 years who are Well done to our winners, Ariana and Riley!
developing a love for tennis and aspire to compete at county Both winners got a goodie bag of tennis prizes
and regional levels. Our LPDC programme is lead by Head worth over £60.
Coach Neil Watts.
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Key Tournament Results:
Nature Valley Big Tennis Weekends
William Burridge Saturday 18th May at Waitrose, Swindon
Winner of Bath 14 Under Grade 3 Sunday 19th May – bring a buddy day at Delta Tennis Centre

Harry Mitchell To stay up to date, like Delta Tennis Centre on
Winner of Pewsey Open Grade 4 Facebook and follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

Josh Bennett
Winner of Bath Grade 3

Phoebe Clark
Winner of Witney Grade 4

Well done to all Delta players who are out competing!

@Better_Swindon @deltatenniscentre

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Better is a registered trademark and trading name of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited), a charitable social enterprise and registered society under the Co-operative & Community Benefit & Societies Act 2014 registration no. 27793R.
Registered office: Middlegate House, The Royal Arsenal, London, SE18 6SX. Inland Revenue Charity no. XR43398