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Welcome to Joppa Community Tennis Club

Important Information

Memberships

The Club is now open to new members. If you are interested in finding out more about joining Joppa Tennis Club please contact the Membership Secretary at joppatc@hotmail.com . See the Membership page for more details and prices.

Adult Beginner Coach-led Socials

A new set of 6 sessions is starting on Saturday 20th April. Free to members. See this NEWS article for more details.

2024 VMH Solicitors East of Scotland League

Full details of this season's summer league fixtures are now available. Please see this NEWS article for more information.

Easter & Summer Holiday Camps

You can now sign up for Easter and Summer camps here

Non-members are welcome but must pay a £10 non-member fee directly to the Club for the use of the courts in addition to the camp fee. Please see the Visitor news item for details on how to pay the non-member fee.

Summer Playing Hours

From 1st April until 31st October the courts are open until 10pm (8pm on Sundays). Court hours are:

Monday to Saturday 9am to 10pm

Sunday 9am to 8pm

Please ensure floodlights are switched off, and courts and clubhouse are locked when you leave, thank you.

Social Tennis

The Tuesday evening slot is weekly 7-9pm, however there will be no social tennis when the Joppa Women are playing a home league match on 16/4, 30/4, 14/5, 28/5 and 11/6.

Sunday afternoons 2-4pm.

All members welcome. No booking required.

Visitors

Vistors are most welcome but must be accompanied by a member and pay the appropriate visitor fee. This is £5 for adults and £2.50 for Students and Juniors (under 18). See here for details on how to pay.

Joppa Community Tennis Club

Joppa Tennis is a small community club located in the heart of Portobello. The courts were constructed in the 1920s or 30s when the then new housing was constructed. The current coaching programme is delivered by Head Coach Finn McLean.

The Club has gone from strength to strength over the years and now boasts over 200 members, mainly family memberships. The costs have been kept as low as possible to make the courts as accessible as possible, for this reason Joppa remains one of the cheapest single/family membership clubs in Scotland.

The courts were relaid in September 2020 and the old tarmac courts were replaced with a top quality all-weather surface which has proven to be invaluable. The new surface is a modern polymeric Tennitec Pro surfacing system, constructed from a rubber shock pad and has a polyurethane coating applied over the top. This make-up is designed to lower impact on the joints and lower limbs so is perfect for fast paced tennis matches.

Then in October 2022, arriving all the way from France, our state-of-the-art Tweener (LED) floodlights were installed, thereby enabling after-dark tennis at Joppa for the first time!

We offer coaching for children and adults of all abilities, affordable junior holiday camps during the easter and summer and regular team trainings for our squads. These classes have proven to be very popular and only continue to grow. The club hosts regular Open Days and Junior/Senior Tournaments throughout the year. We are a Tennis Scotland affiliated club, therefore allowing members to enter into the Wimbledon ballot. An AGM is held and a small committee take day to day decisions on behalf of the membership.

If anyone would like any information about the club please feel free to get in touch! Also feel free to also join our Facebook Group, which is linked at the bottom of the page🎾