What is tennis?

Tennis is great sport for children, young people and adults, at the professional level, it offers the same ppportunities for men and women.

It allows the players to express themselves both individually and as team players. It has a unique scoring system that can present both mental and physical challenges at every turn. Tennis is a sport for life!

What does tennis offer?

• learn a game that can be played both in and outside of school

• play an individual sport

• deal with winning, losing and competing

• work co-operatively

• problem solve and make decisions

• get fit and have fun

• experience rules and see the purpose of them

Tennis is a game and so to make it accessible and recognisable to the learner as such it is taught in this unit as a game and not a series of technical strokes.

It is designed to be taught from a series of tactical issues requiring problem solving methods.