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LTA Tennis Awards 2025 – Nominations Now Open!

Nominations for the 2025 LTA Tennis Awards are now open! Launched in 2015 with the help of former LTA president Cathie Sabin OBE, the awards celebrate the many thousands of inspirational individuals involved in tennis, dedicating their precious time and energy to the continual development and growth of the sport. Over the past eight years, […]

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Volunteers’ Day Celebration

It was amazing to see so many dedicated club and county volunteers from all over Dorset come together for our Volunteers’ Day! This celebration was all about recognising the crucial role volunteers play in making tennis such a thriving success in our community. The day kicked off with a lively Q&A featuring Simon Spalter and […]

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Dorset Juniors Shine at ‘Smash Padel’ in Bicester

This past weekend saw four familiar junior faces from Dorset Tennis achieving fantastic results as they took to the padel courts at ‘Smash Padel’ in Bicester. Jayden and Josh continued their very impressive first year in padel by taking home the 12U title and finishing runners-up in the 16U boys event. Poppy-Kate and Sienna made […]

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Dorset County Championships 2024

The Dorset County Championships 2024 took place at The West Hants Club, 25th to 30th August.  A fantastic week of tennis from all competitors which bought the summer tournament season to an end!   Well done to all competitors and CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners.   Our thanks to : The West Hants Club for being […]

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Tim ‘Timbledon’ Dean ITF Doubles Grass Court Champion

Very many congratulations to East Dorset LTCC legend Tim “Timbledon” Dean who won the O85 Men’s Grass Courts ITF Doubles title at Wimbledon with partner Derek Backhouse beating the number 1 seeds in the Final, 3-6, 6-2, 10-8 adding to his Seniors Clay Courts Championships doubles win earlier in the year at West Hants. Congratulations […]

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LTA Coach Forum 2024

Thursday, 17th October David Lloyd Club, Poole 9 am to 1 pm 4 Coach Credits Cost | £30 Overview Mental skills are critically important in tennis but are rarely trained.  This session will help you to better develop your players by training mental skills and drills across concentration, control of emotion and communication in a […]

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LTA Venue Forum Webinars – September 2024

In September 2024. the LTA are running a series of  Venue Forum Webinars with varying themes, set up in a way that ensures venues of a similar size are bought together. Forums are split by venues with: 1-3 courts 4-7 courts 8+ courts padel venues Venues with 1 to 3 courts – Monday, 2nd September […]

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Coach Opportunity – 11U County Performance Coach

Dorset Tennis is looking for a highly performing coach with excellent communication and organisational skills to lead the 8U – 11U County Training programme. See full job description here. To apply Send CV with covering letter to Annie Smith, County Administrator – annie.smith@dorsetlta.co.uk by 31st August 2024. […]

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