TENNIS
YEAR-ROUND TENNIS
Indoor tennis facilities are key to encouraging people to play
the sport on a more regular basis. Karen Maxwell visited the
recently opened tennis airhall at Easton College in Norwich
and highlights two further new indoor facilities
I
t’s a well-known fact that tennis landscape, in which provision had been
courts around the country are in- four courts down after the closure of
undated with eager players during Lakenham Tennis Club two years earlier.
the two weeks of the Wimbledon Renowned for its land-based agricultur-
tournament every June, but this intense al curriculum, Easton College has recently
interest usually dies down once the typical expanded into sport provision, bolstered
British weather hampers year-round play. by the new tennis facility; two recent-
However, a growing supply of indoor ly-installed, full-sized football pitches
facilities at tennis centres around the (including a 3G synthetic turf pitch) and
country is allowing the budding tennis an existing multi-use sports hall, to facili- refreshment areas, offices, seminar
champions of the future, as well as ten- tate its 330 full-time sports students. rooms and a viewing gallery.
nis enthusiasts who enjoy playing the Built with partnership funding from
game as a way of keeping fit, to play the Learning and Skills Council, the Lawn Programming
come rain or shine. Tennis Association (LTA), Norfolk Lawn As well as developing a tennis culture
Tennis Association and the college itself, for the sports students at the college by
Norfolk newcomer the project was completed in two phases. offering LTA courses and in house place-
Jamie and Judy Murray, the brother and In autumn 2008, the first stage of the ments for trainee leisure assistants, the
mother of tennis ace Andy, witnessed tennis cetnre development became op- pay and play indoor facility has also en-
the official opening of the tennis centre erational with the construction of the hanced regional tennis provision.
at Easton College in Norwich recently. four-court air hall. Building work on the “The first phase of the project be-
The £3.2m development, consisting second phase finished in June 2009. This came operational almost straight away
of four indoor tennis courts under a included the permanent as Norfolk Tennis desperately needed
Yeadon Domes airhall and four more structure, featuring four more courts for the coming winter,”
in a permanent structure, has added a acrylic indoor courts, Easton College sport and tennis man-
pay and play facility to Norfolk’s tennis changing rooms, toilets, ager Matt Breese explains. “It was
Jamie and Judy Murray
encourage young tennis
players at the air hall
official opening
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