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Welcome to Joppa Community Tennis Club

Important Information

Adult Beginners Coach-led Social Tennis

We will be running a further set of 6 coach-led adult beginner sessions from Saturday 31st August until 5th October. The sessions will be led by our Head Coach, Finn McLean, and will run for 1 hour from 12-1pm, and are followed by the regular weekly beginners social session 1-2pm. Open to all members, no charge or sign up required. Just turn up on the day.

Kings Manor

Joppa members have free access to the court at the Kings Manor hotel. See this NEWS article for full details.

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.

Playing Hours

From 1st April until 31st October the court hours are:

Monday to Saturday 9am to 10pm

Sunday 9am to 8pm

Between 1st November and 31st March the courts close at 9pm (still 8pm on Sundays).

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

Social Tennis

Please note that from 3rd September the Tuesday evening slot will move to 8-10pm to accommodate Women's team training 7-8pm. Sunday afternoon social tennis continues at the same time of 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🎾