Tennis Centre
Located in the heart of Solihull, the Tudor Grange Tennis Centre is a modern facility with three fantastic indoor tennis courts and an onsite café that caters for all needs. We offer a full weekly tennis programme for both adults and juniors of all standards and abilities with coaching sessions run by our LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) qualified coaching team.
If you have any questions or need more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to Solihull’s premier indoor tennis facilities at the Tudor Grange Leisure Centre soon.
Tennis Sessions & Programme
We offer a full weekly Tennis Programme for both adults and children of all standards and abilities. See our sessions below:
Mini Tennis
Children between 3 and 10 years old can now get stuck into the world of tennis with an exciting p…rogramme from the LTA. With smaller courts, nets and rackets, as well as lower bouncing balls, this session offers the perfect introduction to the sport.
Benefits of Mini Tennis
There are four stages of LTA Mini Tennis- Tots, Red, Orange and Green; each with their own court size and type of ball. This tailored approach enables players to develop vital skills and techniques at an early age. There is also the LTA Mini Tennis Rally Awards scheme, designed to help mini players learn in stages and take part in exciting exercises with regular rewards. This scheme encourages them to develop their tennis skills at a pace that suits them.
What Should I Wear?
You should wear light and breathable clothing or sportswear to keep cool and ensure maximum flexibility. We recommend that you wear suitable footwear such as trainers to ensure maximum comfort and support. Don’t forget to bring plenty of water to keep you hydrated during your session.
Cardio Tennis
Cardio Tennis is a new, fun, group activity featuring drills to give players of all abilities an …ultimate, high-energy workout. Cardio Tennis includes a warm-up, cardio workout, and a cool down phase. If you want to find a healthy, new way to get in shape and burn calories, Cardio Tennis is a great place to start.
Benefits of Cardio Tennis
It’s a great way to get your heart pumping, which in turn boosts the amount of aerobic exercise you do. You’ll burn more calories than in a singles or doubles match. It consist of short cycles of high intensity workout and periods of rest, almost like interval training. It is a fun, group activity where players of all abilities enjoy tennis together. Although you’re “playing” tennis, the primary focus of this game is ensuring you get a great workout.
What Should I Wear?
We recommend light, breathable clothing or sportswear to keep cool and ensure your movement is not inhibited in any way. In terms of footwear, trainers are best as they will help ensure maximum comfort and support. Bring lots of water, too, as this is a tough workout and you’ll need it.
Tennis Xpress
If you’ve never played tennis before, or haven’t played in a long time, then Tennis Xpress is for… you. Tennis Xpress is an active and dynamic introduction for adult beginners and recommended by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) as the best way to learn the game. Designed as a nine-hour course over six weeks, Tennis Xpress is centred on the use of slower Green balls (25% slower) and Orange balls (50% slower) to ensure that players quickly learn the rules of tennis, and the basic techniques and tactics of tennis, in an active way.
Benefits of Tennis Xpress
This is an easy and fun way for adult beginners to get into the game. During the six week course you will be taught new skills and be shown how to serve, rally and score, so that by the end, you will be able to enjoy fun matches with your friends, family or other people you meet.
What Should I Wear?
Light and breathable clothing or sportswear are best as they’ll help you keep cool and ensure maximum flexibility. Footwear such as trainers are what we’d recommend to ensure maximum comfort and support while you should also bring plenty of water with you too, to avoid dehydration.
Adults – Doubles Builder
In this lesson you can learn and improve on your doubles play… with doubles specific drills, doubles tactics scenarios and conditioned match play.
What Should I Wear?
You should wear light and breathable clothing or sportswear to ensure maximum flexibility and to keep cool, while we recommend wearing trainers and bringing plenty of water too.
Adults – Drills Challenge
Improve your hitting ability with specific challenges and technical input… to help you improve all aspects of your game.
What Should I Wear?
You should wear light and breathable clothing or sportswear to ensure maximum flexibility and to keep cool, while we recommend wearing trainers and bringing plenty of water too.
Adults – Doubles Social
Put what you have learned into practice… with some social doubles matches.
What Should I Wear?
You should wear light and breathable clothing or sportswear to ensure maximum flexibility and to keep cool, while we recommend wearing trainers and bringing plenty of water too.
Tennis Coaching – Themes of the week
We will now be operating an ongoing 6 weekly coaching scheme of work. …Each week will have a theme that will be then used to plan the warm up, technical coaching and challenge + competition aspect of the lesson. The themes are as follows:
Cross Court Battles
Learn how to control the cross court battles by improving your stance, footwork patterns, ball perception and topspin to dominate the rally and open up the chance to attack into the open space you created.
Changing The Direction
Learn when and how to change the direction of the ball from both the forehand and backhand side. Stance, timing, ball perception and racket pathway are all the key points that will be shown during this.
Attack, Rally & Defend
Understand when to attack, rally and defend and then learn how to do all 3 effectively. This will also include learning the technique for slice and will hugely improve players’ decision making when playing competitively.
Net Play & Hand Skills
Learn when and how to approach the net effectively and then what to do once we get the chance to volley. Lots of games revolving around hand skills will be effectively used to achieve confidence in playing a whole variety of shots in and around the net.
Serve & Return
We can now look to improve consistency in our serves whilst also learning about the slice and topspin serves. You will be shown the correct grips and start to have a routine for both serving and returning as well as choosing the footwork pattern that works for you during our returning routine.
Competition & Games
This is where we can put everything learned in the previous 5 weeks into action as well as learn about on court tournament etiquettes and both doubles and singles match tactics.
Private Tennis Coaching
If you are looking to improve your game with the help of 1-2-1 private coaching then our team of Level 3 LTA Tennis coaches are the perfect match for you.
The sessions take place on our indoor courts at Tudor Grange’s Tennis Centre in Solihull and are available throughout the week, as arranged with your private coach.
Contact us via our online enquiry form or speak to the team in centre to find out more.
Safeguarding & Welfare
As a national provider of leisure services to adults and children, Everyone Active has a duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of everyone who uses our services and is committed to sustaining a safe organisational culture.
Tudor Grange’s welfare officer, Emma Marshall, can be contacted via email here – [email protected].