What is the British Tennis place to play strategy?
The LTA aim to get more people to play tennis more frequently and the places to play strategy is a way of doing this. The strategy will aim to provide high quality facilities for everyone at a convenient location.
It’s one plan that aims to increase opportunities for people to play tennis on a regular basis at tennis clubs close to their home, which provides high quality opportunities on safe and well maintained tennis courts.
The strategy sets out:-
- Our overall vision for places to play.
- How we will grow regular participation by supporting places to play to develop and deliver the right programmes.
- How we make our capital investment decisions to ensure we invest in the right facilities to grow the sport.
- How we will support performance programmes in the right locations.
Our vision for places to play
The LTA is committed to growing the sport to ensure that more people are playing tennis more often at first class tennis facilities, with high quality coaching programmes and well organised competition.
Our overall aim for the next 5 years (2011-2016) is to ensure that, as far as practicably possible, the British population has access to and are aware of the places and high quality tennis opportunities in their local area. In brief:-
- Access for everyone to well maintained high quality tennis facilities which are either free or pay as you play.
- A Clubmark accredited place to play within a 10 minute drive of their home.
- Indoor tennis courts within a 20 minute drive time of their home.
- A mini tennis (10 and under) performance programme within a 20 minute drive of their home (Performance Centres).
- A performance programme for 11 - 15 year olds within a 45 minute drive time of their home (High Performance Centre).
- A limited number of internationally orientated programmes strategically spread for players 16+ with an international programme (International High Performance Centres).
Note: These targets are guidelines and subject to demand, population density and existing provision.