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Dulwich Lawn Tennis Club - Coaching Newsletter

Happy new year to everyone!
May every wish of yours get fulfilled in the upcoming year 🎉🥂🎈

Even if 2023 has passed us in a flash, we've not been disappointed! This year has been buckets of fun!

First, a massive thanks to the junior players, parents, coaches and assistants who attended our Christmas party this year. As every year we donated all profits collected to Crisis Charity. Your generous contribution has sponsored 15 homeless people who will have a place to sleep, meals, medical service and others for a week.

The Junior Programme has expanded again in 2023, we have over 50 classes from 3- to 18-year-old. We coached 17 Academies and Squads classes for teens, and we have created performance junior classes from 6 to 11 years old. We offer two Inclusive Tennis classes per week. We can proudly say that tennis performance at DLTC is improving every year.

The Adult Programme was also booming this year, we have coached more than 25 classes between tennis Xpress (tennis for beginners), Rusty Rackets, Cardio Tennis, advanced drills, and team practices.
We ran an adult tournament before Christmas and witnessed great standard of tennis with Caleb ultimately prevailing ahead of a spirited Cora and Maddy.

We delivered the LTA Youth Tennis Leaders course; a programme designed for young people aged 11 to 18 years-old.
It focusses on developing core leadership skills such as communication, self-belief, teamwork, self-management, and problem-solving to help the coaching programme at the club. Thank you, Matty!  Keep up the good work, guys!

DLTC Championship 2023, was a great success. We set an attendance record of over 200 players and played over 300 matches in 2 weeks. Wow!

From the 8th of January we will have a new addition to our team of coaches. Alex Smith is a very experienced LTA level 3 Coach. He has more than 10 years’ experience coaching children and adults.
Please get in touch with me if you want to arrange your lessons with him. He will have availabilities for you. 
 

Thanks a lot to our amazing team of coaches: Matty, Alfie and Jordan for their great work and commitment, to our great team of assistants for their work and effort.

And finally, let's be mindful of our mental health as much as our physical health in 2024.
There has been a will from a few of our DLTC members to tackle the men’s mental health crisis and the lack of mental health tools for men. The result is our app, Mettle, the first ever science-backed mental fitness toolkit for men. Co-founded with Bear Grylls, Dr Alex George, Paul McKenna and co-designed with Imperial College, it gives men the permission and tools they need to look after their mental health with personalised habit-forming tools based around meditation, breathwork and self-hypnosis, all designed from the ground up specifically for men’s needs.
Be ready to check it out as it will blow your mind.

We will see you all in 2024.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


 

SPRING TERM 2024 

SPRING TERM READY LAST CALL! 🎉🥳

We would like to invite you to join our Spring Term 2024. We will be starting on the 8th of January 2024 and will finish on the Sunday 31st of March. During this term our junior players will improve their tennis, have fun and meet new friends. We have classes from Monday to Sunday. We welcome players of all ages and abilities.
CLICK HERE to book your place if you haven't already.

 

ADULT TENNIS PROGRAMME

Join our adult group sessions and improve your tennis in a friendly and social environment led by our experienced and passionate team of LTA tennis Coaches.

Our Adult tennis programme provides tennis lessons to adult players all ages and and abilities . 

At Dulwich Lawn Tennis Club there is always a class for you!