Tennis

Global Fitness has 2 outdoor & 3 indoor tennis courts for use all year round.  Whether you are trying to keep cool in the summer, or practice your backhand all winter we have leagues and lessons for everyone.

 

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TOURNAMENTS
CLUB 

Adults

February 17,18,19   Mixed
Applications are ready pick up at our front desk or click here

March 29 - April 1     Club Championships

Juniors

March 3

CLINICS FOR MEMBERS :: MARCH TENNIS CLINICS

Volleying

Saturday, March 10

3:00 - 4:30 PM

With Coach Johnny

Limited Space

Sign up at the Front Desk

Fee:$ 5.00

Return of Serve

Saturday, March 24

3:00 - 4:30 PM

With Coach Holger

Limited Space

Sign up at the Front Desk

Fee: $ 5.00

TENNIS

A game for all ages:

Unlike most other sports, tennis can be played at any age, with friends and family, and in competition.

A game for Life:
A study in the American Journal of Medicine showed that tennis has the highest rate of sustainability: 33% of men who played in their 20's continued to play in mid-life, providing healthy long-term benefits.

A game for everyone:
Tennis is one of the only sports where able-bodied and wheelchair players can play together.

A game that's healthier:
As a low-impact, non-contact sport, tennis produces fewer injuries. In 2005, Consumer Reports ranked singles tennis as one of the best calorie-burning workouts, particularly good for the upper and lower body, offering significant cardiovascular and weight-bearing benefits.

To find out how you can become a Tennis Member at Global Fitness, please contact us directly.

Lessons for Adult :

 
Junior Lessons: 

Leagues & Socials:  Registration at the Front Desk

Tennis Committees:

Facility Committee:  Global Fitness is committed to Tennis in our community; this committee meets to discuss the future plans for indoor tennis in Kelowna.  If you would like to be part of this committee please contact our General Manager, Darcia Fenton at  generalmanager@globalfitnesskelowna.com.

Social Committee:  if you are a member and would like to help organize our social events and Tournaments please contact Darcia Fenton at generalmanger@globalfitnesskelowna.com

Tennis Events

We have some very exciting news!

We are building off of the momentum from the first Miele Regional Championships hosted by the Lakeview Heights Club in June that later lead to a Provincial Championship title from the Kelowna Women’s 4.5 team.

We are in the process of organizing an Interior Ladies Team Tennis League. The format is comprised of 5 players: 2 doubles teams and 1 singles player. Teams can have spares if desired. This league is designed to culture competition, physical health, and inter-club camaraderie. Further, it will be in accordance with Tennis BC’s provincial guidelines and league regulations.

4 League events (day-tournaments) will take place on Saturdays, leading to the Miele Regional Championship in the summer of 2012 in Kamloops. The first event will take place in Kelowna on Saturday, January 28^th.   Three following events will take place; March 3^rd, April 15^th and May 12^th.    Each event will include refreshments and a player social at the tournament site.

Global Fitness Centre (Pro Joachim Nierfeld) in Kelowna and Kamloops Tennis Club (Pro Kelly Hubbard) have committed to hosting the events on an alternating schedule. The season would be concluded with a wind up social and prizes for 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd placers.

Requirements:

• team of 5 (minimum) Registered spares must be team members
• minimum level of 3.5 to 4.5
• TennisBC membership
• $140.00 per participant includes court time, balls and food
• Must be a TennisBC member
• Registration and full payment of team is required by January 10th, 2012

Each team’s schedule and match results will be on the TennisBC website: www.TennisBC.org . Please see the following link: http://tennisbc.org/team-tennis/adult-leagues to see the Ladies League Regulations.

Registration deadline Jan 10, 2012.   Click Here for Registration Form.

COURT ETIQUETTE

1. Ball management

Even the most efficient tennis players spend more time between points than playing points. Getting the balls in the server's hands is the biggest time-waster. While a brief rest between points is often needed, many players slow the game down by a factor of two or three by failing to collect balls and get them to the server efficiently. Here are a few tips that will speed up the game and make it more fun for everyone:

• Balls should be kept either in hand, in a pocket or ball clip, or against the fence directly behind the center mark.
• Any time your opponent has to walk a significant distance to get a ball, look around your side to see whether you can use that time to collect a ball that's similarly far away.
• If the server needs a ball, the player closest to a ball should get it and send it to the server.
• Send a ball to the server so that he/she can catch it easily with one hand. Advanced players seem to be able to get the ball to bounce once, softly, to the server, but most less advanced players should make the ball bounce twice to ensure that it arrives at a low speed.
• Never hit a ball hard toward the server's side with the intention that he/she will eventually collect it off the fence. Aside from the possibility of hitting someone who's not expecting a ball to be coming, you'll also probably cause the ball to bounce off the fence and roll either too far away or into the court where it will become a hazard. Also, it's rude to make the server pick a ball up off the ground when you could have sent it so that it could be caught after a bounce or two.

2. Keeping score

• The server must announce the score at the start of each game and at the start of the second point and each subsequent point in each game.
• If the receiver cannot hear the server's announcement of the score, he must ask the server to speak louder. You can't wait until the server believes he has won the game to try to reconstruct the scoring point by point.

3. Line calls

The Code addresses this topic quite well, but here a few points that many players often overlook:

• If you're not sure whether your opponent's shot is in or out, it's in.
• If you return a first serve that your opponent can clearly see is out, your opponent won't be sure why you're not calling it out. It's often hard for the receiver to tell on fast serves, and you must give the server the benefit of the doubt, but if you can see that you confused your opponent by playing an out ball, offer to replay the point. See The Code's interesting discussion of calling serves in or out.
• In doubles, you should not call balls wide when they land near the far sideline, unless the call is obvious and your partner was somehow hindered from seeing the ball land.
• If you are the receiver, and your partner is on or near the service line at the start of a point, your partner has the best view of whether a serve is in or long. You can make a call if he doesn't, but always defer to his judgment. (You generally shouldn't disagree with your partner's calls anyway.)

4. Demeanor

Try to look like you're having fun, even if you're playing badly. Your opponent does not want to see you looking miserable, at least in a friendly match, and you're likely to play better if you try to present a positive state of mind.