JUNIORS

If you are keen to learn more about the great game of tennis, find yourself a club and a coach.

Before you know it you will be ready for Junior Interclub, and if you work hard and want to challenge yourself, play your first tournament and get yourself on New Zealand’s tennis ranking system.

Top juniors in WBOP get the opportunity (by invitation) to join the Junior Development Pathway programme. The programme consists of 15 sessions per term – Development Squads, Representative Squads, and Cardio Squads to uplift their tennis skills and exposure to match play. There are 8 Development Squads, 3 Representative Squads, 8 Cardio Squads this term. This term’s development squads calendar for 2025:

DAYDATESQUAD VENUE
Monday3 FebruaryDevelopmentPapamoa
Monday10 FebruaryDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday13 FebruaryCardioLawn
Monday17 FebruaryDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday20 FebruaryCardioLawn
Monday24 FebruaryDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday27 FebruaryCardioLawn
Monday3 MarchDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday6 MarchCardioLawn
Sunday9 MarchRepresentativePapamoa
Monday10 MarchDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday13 MarchCardioLawn
Monday17 MarchDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday20 MarchCardioLawn
Sunday23 MarchRepresentativePapamoa
Monday24 MarchDevelopmentPapamoa
Thursday27 MarchCardioLawn
Monday31 MarchRepresentativePapamoa
Thursday3 AprilCardioLawn

WBOP GIRLS squads are FREE fun-orientated tennis get-togethers allowing girls/parents to get to know each other and build a supportive girls’ tennis community. Girls get 6x free squad sessions with one of our performance coaches, Luis Luna, in terms 2 and 3.

Tennis Western BOP’s mission is to create a nurturing junior pathway that provides opportunities for a junior player in the Western Bay of Plenty to play, compete and be successful in both tennis and life. Tennis Western BOP implemented the new Junior Player Pathway in Term 1, 2022.