ITF Junior Tennis Initiative (JTI) – 14 & Under Development Programme Through the National Associations, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) operates a number of programmes to assist member nations with tennis for junior players between the ages of 6 and 14. The ITF believes that each nation should be focusing a great deal of their activities on this age group […]
Tennis is a game played between either two players (“singles”) or two teams of two players (“doubles”). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent’s court. Tennis originated in England in the late 19th century and first spread through the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes.[citation needed] […]
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The four man team of Darian King, Haydn Lewis, Seanon Williams and UK based Anthony Marshall along with non-playing captain Kevin Yarde head to Santa Cruz, Bolivia to play in the Americas Zone Group III of the 2011 Davis Cup team tennis competition. Eight teams are entered in Group III and are initially split into two groups of four, with each […]
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the 2011 Masters, Open and Junior Nationals tournaments originally scheduled to run from June 18 – July 7 have been postponed. The 2011 Nationals have now been rescheduled to be played at the National Tennis Centre from September 2 – 23, 2011. The revised 2011 tournament calendar can be found at Tournaments – see at top […]
Defending champions Summerhayes Tennis Club narrowly defeated the National Tennis Centre team to win the 2011 BNB Inter Club tennis championship by 39 points 36. With the final played at the National Tennis Centre on May 7, each team had won 2 matches coming into the decider. Summerhayes duly took the final mixed doubles in a very close encounter to […]
The 2011 Barbados International Junior Championships concluded yesterday with two unseeded pairings contesting the U18s boys doubles final. Grenadian Yannick James and Barbadian Matthew Hutchinson lost to the British pairing of Thomas Colautti and Callum Poland-Smith 2-6, 1-6 at the National Tennis Centre. Colautti the # 6 seed had earlier taken the U18s boys singles with a convincing 6-3, 6-4 […]
We are again preparing to host the Barbados Junior International ITF Championships at the National Tennis Centre and the Barbados Yacht Club running from Saturday March 26 to the scheduled finals day on Friday April 1, 2011. The tournament, which is held for Under-18 and Under-14 tennis players has full entries in the Under-18 boys’ and girls’ singles main draws, […]
The Barbados teams of Gavin Hutchinson, Andrew Symmonds and Joshua Worme together with Kiana Marshall, Cherise Slocombe and Symphony Griffith were amongst the twenty-one countries in the boys’ event and fourteen countries in the girls’ event competing in Santo Domingo this week for the final places in the WJTC U14s Qualifying event in Merida, Mexico to be held from 29 […]