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The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
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<strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong><br />
President: Ian Peacock OBE<br />
Executive Vice President: Barbara Wancke<br />
Honorary Vice President: Henry Wancke<br />
Honorary Life Vice President: Peter Occleshaw<br />
Chairman: Stephen Matthews<br />
Vice Chairman: Mike Ballardie<br />
Treasurer: Peter Risdon<br />
Marketing & Events Director: Richard Jones<br />
Executive Administrator: Gilly English<br />
Past Presidents<br />
The position was first established in 2002.<br />
David Lloyd (2002-2007)<br />
Past Chairmen<br />
Peter Occleshaw (1998)<br />
Robert Porter-Smith (1999-2001)<br />
Henry Wancke (2002-2009)<br />
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Message from the Chairman – Steve Matthews, David Lloyd Leisure Ltd<br />
Iam delighted to introduce the third annual edition of the <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong>, which<br />
is proving itself to be a valuable reference for everyone connected with tennis.<br />
It features all our members, which now include most of the major manufacturing<br />
companies in the <strong>UK</strong> thus enabling the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> to strengthen its position as the<br />
voice piece for the tennis industry in this country.<br />
As well as showcasing the wide variety of products and services our membership offers for<br />
fans, players, clubs and corporate clients, The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong> contains many interesting<br />
articles and reference information about the game, including a directory of tennis racket<br />
stringers.<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> has established close ties with The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association. I represent the<br />
<strong>TIA</strong> on the LTA Council and meet regularly with Roger Draper, the Chief Executive.<br />
I would like to take this opportunity of thanking Roger for the LTA’s financial support to<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong>.<br />
If you are reading this as a business involved in some way in tennis and are not currently a<br />
member of the <strong>TIA</strong>, I strongly encourage you to join (details are on page54) and become<br />
one of our tennis family.<br />
Steve Matthews<br />
Chairman, <strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong><br />
Board Members<br />
Jan Booth<br />
Adrian Coles<br />
Robert Fuller<br />
Maurice Hickman<br />
Jeremy Holt<br />
Sally Lockyer<br />
Steve Riley<br />
Phil Sandilands<br />
Henry Wancke
Foreword<br />
It gives me great pleasure to provide the Foreword for<br />
the <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong> and I hope that you will find this<br />
edition as popular and useful as the first two editions<br />
appear to have been.<br />
It is encouraging that, even in this age of electronic<br />
communication, an attractive printed publication is still a<br />
valuable tool for the provision of a directory of products<br />
and services to all those of us who are involved in or<br />
around the world of tennis.<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong> is published in conjunction with The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association, whose<br />
support we greatly appreciate. We try and work closely with the governing body, whose aims<br />
and ours are closely aligned since we both want more people of all ages to participate in and<br />
enjoy this great game of tennis.<br />
The year <strong>2011</strong> is proving to be a difficult trading year for members of the tennis industry as<br />
it is for most businesses throughout the country. In tennis though, we do have an advantage<br />
over some other industries - we have the ability to expand our market by encouraging more<br />
people to play.<br />
With our modest resources, we cannot do this on our own, but by working with the LTA, the<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation and other organisations, we can add our skills, knowledge and experience<br />
to the significant resources available to those bodies in order to maximise the effectiveness of<br />
the development initiatives driven by the governing body.<br />
Apart from supporting and assisting, wherever appropriate, the development work of the<br />
LTA, the <strong>TIA</strong> tries to help its members by providing a range of services, such as insurance,<br />
information, communications and publications in addition to providing a forum for meeting<br />
and discussion within the game.<br />
Finally, let’s wish Andy Murray success in <strong>2011</strong>, his achievements in the game are already<br />
outstanding and we should all be extremely grateful to him for the exposure he generates for<br />
our sport in the newspapers, online and on TV. Let’s hope he can go just that one, albeit<br />
giant, step further and provide a real boost for everyone who is involved in tennis in the <strong>UK</strong><br />
during <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
Ian Peacock OBE<br />
President<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong><br />
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Message from the LTA<br />
<strong>2011</strong> is all about building upon the momentum<br />
that has been created over the last four years<br />
and making the most of the foundations that<br />
have been put in place to grow tennis.<br />
This means continuing to increase the opportunities<br />
for people to get involved in the sport whether this<br />
is playing, organising or watching. Making sure<br />
people are aware of these opportunities and that<br />
when they get involved they have a great<br />
experience.<br />
Plans for <strong>2011</strong> include:-<br />
Improving access to places to play tennis, making<br />
sure there are enough affordable and accessible<br />
places to play tennis based on where demand is.<br />
Increasing the opportunities to get involved, by improving the quality and diversity of the<br />
tennis programmes on offer to cater for the many different reasons people play tennis.<br />
Raising the awareness of tennis – promoting and marketing the sport to help the public<br />
know where they can access tennis and what is on offer.<br />
Improving the support to coaches and the people who deliver tennis on a day to day basis<br />
– producing the right tools, resources and training opportunities to support them in<br />
delivering a great experience to the people who play the sport.<br />
Continuing to support the competitive infrastructure in Britain, making it easier for junior<br />
and adult players to compete in individual and team competitions across Britain.<br />
I hope you find this directory of products and services helpful and wish you every<br />
success whatever your role is in tennis this coming season.<br />
Roger Draper<br />
Chief Executive<br />
The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association<br />
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The Sport of <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
The 2010 victorious Serbian team who vowed – and did - shave their heads when they won the Cup. Picture Fotosports International.<br />
The team side of tennis<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> is perceived by the majority of us as a sport for the<br />
individual. In the main it is, thanks to the Grand Slams and the<br />
respective ATP and WTA Tours who vigorously promote their<br />
circuits and the stars which play them.<br />
The race for the respective year ending Championships and the<br />
constant fight for ranking points dominate the tennis scene, all<br />
of which tends to overshadow another important aspect of the<br />
sport, the inter-nation competitions when players represent<br />
their countries, and do so with pride.<br />
Winning the Davis Cup for your country is a major achievement<br />
in any player’s career resumé, just ask Rafael Nadal and Novak<br />
Djokovic, two players who contributed to the respective<br />
successes of Spain and the current 2010 champions, Serbia.<br />
For them, and any players representing their nation, hearing<br />
their country being called rather than their own name, is an<br />
emotional moment which doesn’t come their way too often.<br />
The Davis Cup<br />
Run by the International <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Federation (ITF), the Davis Cup, one<br />
of the oldest competitions in the<br />
world, is the sport’s most important<br />
team event and one which is<br />
currently competed for annually by<br />
over 125 nations. It started 110<br />
years ago when Dwight F Davis, a<br />
Harvard University graduate,<br />
persuaded both the American and<br />
British tennis authorities in 1900, to<br />
The Davis Cup, picture<br />
courtesy of the ITF<br />
play a challenge tennis match between the two nations in what<br />
was termed as the International Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Challenge.<br />
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To that end he donated a sterling silver bowl – at the time worth<br />
$1,000 but priceless these days – for presentation to the winners<br />
of the first ‘challenge’ held at the Longwood Cricket Club in<br />
Boston, Massachusetts. Little did he know what he started!<br />
The actual ‘ties’ – the matches between nations – has not<br />
changed and remains at five ‘rubbers’ – the actual individual<br />
matches between the competing teams – per tie though the<br />
format of the competition has been altered to cater for the<br />
number of competing nations and go some way to ensuring<br />
similar playing standards between teams.<br />
As was the tradition in those days, the competition was run to<br />
establish which nation would go forward to take on the<br />
champions of the previous year in the ‘Challenge Round’, but,<br />
after a few years, more nations started to become involved.<br />
The first major change to the structure came in 1923 when the<br />
entries reached 16 and it became necessary to introduce two<br />
zonal competitions, one based in America and the other in<br />
Europe. The winners of the two zones then played-off for the<br />
chance to gain entry into the Challenge Round.<br />
In 1955 a third, ‘Eastern Zone’ was introduced which made the<br />
Inter Zonal final rather lopsided and in 1966 that was corrected<br />
by Europe splitting into two zones to establish a proper semifinal<br />
stage, an inkling of what was to come nine years on.<br />
The Challenge Round was abolished in 1972 and the defending<br />
champions had to mix in with the bulk of nations to play<br />
through all the rounds but it wasn’t until 1981 that the tiered<br />
system became the norm, with a 16 nation World Group<br />
contesting what could be termed the Premier League, and the<br />
other nations being grouped in the remaining regional zones<br />
(Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe/Africa) which in turn is<br />
sub-divided with relegation and promotion play-offs, all with<br />
the aim of progressing upwards towards that World Group.
The best way to describe the format is to basically compare it<br />
with the Football League but rather than gaining points over a<br />
season with the bottom team forced into a relegation match, the<br />
first round World Group losers play-off against the winners of<br />
the top groups from each region. The promotion/relegation<br />
system applies also to the losers and winners of all the groups<br />
to determine the group-runners for the following year’s<br />
competition.<br />
The only difference is in the respective Groups III and IV who<br />
play a round robin tournament with promotion and relegation.<br />
The various rounds are contested over four weekends during<br />
the year with each elimination round between competing<br />
nations, being held in one of the countries as determined by the<br />
ITF before each year’s draw.<br />
The fortunes of the two founding nations could not be more<br />
disparate for while the USA, with 32 Davis Cup titles to its<br />
name and another 29 final appearances, hold the best record in<br />
the competition’s history, Britain, with nine overall wins – the<br />
last in 1936 following a consecutive four year run – has failed<br />
to make much of an impact since those golden years when Fred<br />
Perry ruled the tennis world.<br />
Currently the USA maintain their place in the World Group<br />
while Britain, who last appeared in a final in 1978, languish in<br />
Euro-Africa Zone ll and need to beat Luxembourg in July to<br />
reach a Group 1 promotion play-off tie in September.<br />
Only 14 nations have won the Davis Cup with another 9 just<br />
failing to clear that final hurdle. Australia is the second most<br />
successful Davis Cup nation with 28 Cup wins, 15 of these<br />
victories coming in an 18 year span between 1950 and 1967,<br />
followed by Britain and France on 9, Sweden 7, Spain 4,<br />
Germany 3, Russia 2, and Italy, the Czech Republic South<br />
Africa, Croatia and Serbia, all on 1.<br />
The Fed Cup<br />
Originally known as the Federation Cup, the name was<br />
contracted to Fed Cup in 1995 when the format of the<br />
competition was changed from a week long tournament to the<br />
tiered version favoured by the men’s Davis Cup.<br />
The event is always described as the women’s version of the<br />
Davis Cup despite the fact that it always had its own identity<br />
especially when it was run over a week, a system never<br />
employed by the men.<br />
The competition began life in 1963 to celebrate the 50 th<br />
anniversary of the ITF, ironically some 40 years after it was first<br />
proposed by Mrs Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, an American,<br />
who was keen to establish an event for the ladies equivalent to<br />
the men’s successful Davis Cup. While Britain and the USA<br />
supported the concept of an international team competition for<br />
women in 1919, unfortunately, no other nation did.<br />
As a result Mrs Wightman then turned to the two supporting<br />
nations and presented a trophy for an annual contest between<br />
Britain and the USA which became known as the Wightman<br />
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Cup, of which more below.<br />
In the interim it was<br />
Britain’s Mary Hardwick<br />
Hare with support from<br />
Australia’s Nell Hopman<br />
who revived the concept<br />
and presented it to the ITF<br />
which was finally approved<br />
in 1962 for the event to<br />
begin the following year,<br />
staged over one week and<br />
at a different venue each<br />
year.<br />
The Fed Cup, picture courtesy<br />
of the ITF<br />
The Federation Cup was subsequently launched at The Queen’s<br />
Club, London, and attracted 16 countries with the USA<br />
emerging as the first champions after defeating Australia in the<br />
final. To gauge the calibre of player involved, the American<br />
team included Darlene Hard and Billie Jean King while the<br />
Aussies had the services of Margaret Smith and Lesley Turner.<br />
The increase in the level of entries during the seventies resulted<br />
in the hosts having to build a tennis complex to accommodate<br />
the event. This became known as the Federation Cup’s ‘legacy’<br />
providing the host nation with extra kudos as it also helped<br />
them develop programmes for their own national game.<br />
The rise in entries eventually led, in 1991, to the creation of a<br />
regional qualifying competition and three years later, the<br />
adoption of a similar format to the men’s Davis Cup in order to<br />
provide every nation with a chance of hosting their own Fed<br />
Cup tie. This was further honed in 2005 with an eight nation<br />
World Group I and eight nation World Group II playing both<br />
home-and-away ties over three weekends throughout the year,<br />
was established.<br />
Below them are three Zones, The Americas, Asia/Oceania and<br />
Europe/Africa. The individual Zones are split into two groups<br />
except for Europe/Africa which has three. Progress upwards is<br />
similar to the Davis Cup.<br />
The Fed Cup ties originally consisted of three rubbers per tie<br />
which still remains the case at Zonal level. The World Groups,<br />
however, now play five rubbers over two days — two singles<br />
on the first day followed by the two reverse singles on day<br />
two plus a doubles.<br />
The dominant nation is again, the USA with 17 titles and 11<br />
runner-up spots, followed by Australia with 7 wins and 10<br />
final appearances. Spain and the Czech Republic each have 5<br />
wins followed by Russia (4), Italy, the reigning champions for<br />
the past two years (3), Germany and France (2), with South<br />
Africa, Belgium and Slovakia all on one each.<br />
Britain has never won a Fed Cup but has appeared in 4 finals,<br />
the last occasion being 1981 when it was played in Japan<br />
when they lost 3-0 to the USA.<br />
Currently Britain compete in the Euro/Africa Zone Group I<br />
where they finished fifth overall in <strong>2011</strong>.
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Wightman Cup<br />
As mentioned earlier, the Wightman Cup was suggested by Mrs<br />
Hazel Hotckiss Wightman when her original idea of an<br />
international women’s team event was rejected.<br />
However, while disappointed by that rejection, she responded in<br />
1923 by donating a sterling silver vase to the USTA as a prize<br />
for a team competition. Britain, the only other nation to support<br />
her original worldwide women’s team event was challenged and<br />
in the process established what became an exclusive match<br />
between the two dominant tennis nations of the time.<br />
The match consisted of seven rubbers, five singles and two<br />
doubles, and alternated year on year, between the two nations.<br />
Over the years every leading American and British woman<br />
player took part but it was the American dominance which<br />
eventually led to the event being dropped after 1989, the USA<br />
having won 51 of the 61 meetings. But the legacy of the<br />
competition continues with a junior version competing for the<br />
Maureen Connolly Trophy.<br />
Serena Williams and Mardy Fish enjoy their moment of victory<br />
in the 2008 Hopman Cup. Picture Fotosports International<br />
The Hopman Cup<br />
International team events for both men and women having been<br />
successfully established, it was the turn of the mixed discipline<br />
to receive attention and thanks to the efforts of their first<br />
tournament director, Paul McNamee, this came about in 1989,<br />
initially as an exhibition event but now very much under the<br />
auspices of the ITF.<br />
It was named after Harry Hopman, the legendary Australian<br />
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player, coach and Davis Cup captain and is held at the<br />
beginning of each year in Perth, Australia.<br />
In relation to the other events mentioned, the Hopman Cup is<br />
relatively young but it still attracts the top players seeking to<br />
warm-up for the first grand slam of the year in Melbourne, later<br />
in January.<br />
Players are invited to play and teams consist of a male and<br />
female, both of whom play a singles and then team up for a<br />
mixed doubles. Unlike the other team events, no on-court<br />
coaching is allowed.<br />
Eight nations are selected to compete and they play off in two<br />
round robin groups with the top nation of each group<br />
contesting the final.<br />
Again the USA dominate the event with 6 wins and 4 final<br />
appearances, followed by Spain and Slovakia on 3 wins, and<br />
Switzerland on 2. Russia, South Africa, Australia, Croatia,<br />
Germany, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, the inaugural<br />
champions, have won once while Britain has just made one<br />
final appearance, in 2010.<br />
ATP World Team Championships<br />
Finally we have the ATP’s version of an international team event<br />
which is played on clay at Dusseldorf’s Rochusclub in Germany<br />
the week before the French Open. It is the only team tournament<br />
on the men’s professional calendar.<br />
Spain was the inaugural champion nation when the event was<br />
launched in 1978 and Argentina is the current champion, the<br />
South Americans having join Germany, Spain and the USA as<br />
four-time winners.<br />
Interestingly the dominant nation has been Sweden with five<br />
titles to its credit and not the Americans, as one would expect.<br />
Surprisingly they last won in 1993 and it might well reflect the<br />
employed selection criteria.<br />
Each year the Dusseldorf organizers add up the end-of-year<br />
ranking of a nation’s top two players and from that list of<br />
combined rankings, the best, or top eight nations, are invited to<br />
compete in a two group round robin format, followed by a<br />
semi-final and final.<br />
Britain has contested on four occasions (1978-79, 1999 &<br />
2002) but the team has never progressed past the group stage.<br />
The clay courts of Dusseldorf’s Rochusclub where the ATP<br />
World Tour Team Championships are traditionally held.<br />
Picture courtesy of the ATP Tour
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What They Do<br />
The International <strong>Tennis</strong> Federation (ITF)<br />
Established in 1913 with agreement from 12 national<br />
associations, the activities of the International Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Federation were disrupted by the advent of the Great War and<br />
it wasn’t until 1923 that they took over the rules of the game.<br />
Currently 205 national associations are affiliated to the ITF<br />
(they dropped ‘Lawn’ from their title in 1977) and remain<br />
responsible for administering and regulating the game<br />
internationally including technical specifications for the<br />
court, rackets and balls as well as certification of tennis<br />
officials and enforcing the anti-doping programme with the<br />
ATP and WTA.<br />
In addition they administer international<br />
competitions like the Davis Cup, the Fed Cup,<br />
tennis at the Olympics and the equivalent<br />
events in wheelchair tennis, plus events for both seniors and<br />
juniors.<br />
The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association (LTA)<br />
To bring some clarity to the then new sport of Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong>,<br />
60 clubs agreed to establish a governing body for the sport<br />
in 1888. The group included the All England Club and<br />
William Renshaw, already six times Wimbledon champion,<br />
was elected as the first President.<br />
The continuous growth of the game both in Great Britain and<br />
around the world necessitated, in 1913, the foundation of the<br />
International Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Federation whose responsibility<br />
was to oversee the international aspect of the game and to<br />
take over the rule-making from the LTA.<br />
Since then the LTA has been in the business of promoting the<br />
sport in and around Britain. One of its first priorities (in<br />
1920) was to help the All England Club construct its present<br />
headquarters at Church Road, Wimbledon.<br />
Besides Wimbledon, the LTA currently supports top level<br />
international events at Birmingham, Queen’s,<br />
Eastbourne, and the O2 Arena as well as<br />
events at a lower level, the Pro-Series and<br />
the British Tour plus junior events.<br />
The ATP World Tour (formerly the Association of<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Professionals - ATP)<br />
In 1972, the leading male professionals joined forces to<br />
create the Association of <strong>Tennis</strong> Professional with the goal of<br />
changing the game for the better.<br />
One of the first initiatives was to establish a computer<br />
ranking system to analyse player performances as a means to<br />
determine entries to tournaments.<br />
This was launched in 1973.<br />
At the time the men’s professional game was administered by<br />
the Men’s <strong>Tennis</strong> Council made up of representatives from<br />
the ILTF, the ATP and tournament directors from around the<br />
world.<br />
This was disbanded in 1989 when the ATP decided the<br />
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players needed to control their sport and announced their<br />
intentions at a press conference at the 1988 US Open in the<br />
car park of Flushing Meadows revealing the problems which<br />
existed in the professional game. One of their answers was to<br />
establish their own professional tour, the ATP Tour which in<br />
2010, celebrated its 21st anniversary.<br />
In 1997 they established the ATP Senior Tour of Champions.<br />
They have also been instrumental in introducing rule<br />
changes to enhance the fans experience like eliminating five<br />
set finals and replacing the third set in doubles with<br />
Champions Tiebreaks, as well as replacing the ad rule with a<br />
sudden death point on deuce.<br />
Last year they implemented tournament tiers<br />
to make it easier for the public to understand<br />
what points the players are competing for,<br />
namely ATP World Tour at Masters level<br />
1000, Tour level 500 and 250. For the<br />
record, Grand Slam events are 2000.<br />
The WTA Tour (formerly the Women’s <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Association - WTA)<br />
In 1970, led by Billie Jean King, the women rebelled against<br />
officialdom and their reduced prize money levels in<br />
comparison to the men, by setting up the Virginia Slims Tour<br />
but it wasn’t until 1973 that the actual Women’s <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Players’ Association was established to unite all the women’s<br />
professional tournaments under one banner. This decision<br />
was reached at the Gloucester Hotel in London a week before<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
One of the association’s main objectives was<br />
to obtain equality in prize money levels with<br />
their male counterparts at the Grand Slams<br />
which the US Open agreed to immediately.<br />
In 1995 the WTA merged with the Women’s <strong>Tennis</strong> Council to<br />
form the WTA Tour and in 2001 the Australian Open agreed<br />
to equal prize money which was then matched by Roand<br />
Garros and Wimbledon in 2007, the year that the association<br />
also started experimenting with on-court coaching while<br />
announcing a shorter season, a more fan friendly approach<br />
and introducing heavier penalties for player withdrawals from<br />
events.<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong> (<strong>TIA</strong>)<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> was founded in 1998 and its mission is to<br />
promote, foster and protect industry growth and vitality in the<br />
<strong>UK</strong>, as well as to provide commercial benefits to tennis<br />
businesses while supporting the LTA’s efforts to promote the<br />
sport at all levels.<br />
Members range from multi-million pound corporations to<br />
individual entrepreneurs, all of whom care and depend on the<br />
future of the game, and currently number over<br />
60 tennis businesses and over 135 individual<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Racquet Specialists.
So you want to be a<br />
know-it-all?<br />
The European Racquet Stringers Association offers<br />
you the chance to become an expert in the fi eld of<br />
racquet sports products. Through RacquetTech<br />
Magazine, the Stringers Digest, ERSA e-Newsletter,<br />
r<br />
www.ersa.stringers.com, workshops and certifi cation,<br />
you will be one of the experts in your fi eld.<br />
Always look for the ERSA Certifi ed Stringer, r<br />
Master Racquet Technician or Pro Tour Stringer<br />
Certifi cation when looking for a professional to service<br />
your racquets!<br />
2009 Apollo Leisure<br />
Wimbledon Team<br />
European Racquet Stringers Association<br />
Lenaustr. 38<br />
40470 Düsseldorf<br />
DE Germany<br />
+49(0)211-87511548 Fax +49(0)211-87511549<br />
www.ersa-stringers.com<br />
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<strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Business Groups<br />
Brands & Equipment Suppliers<br />
Representing the major brands in the world of tennis,<br />
this group of companies includes distributors and<br />
manufacturers of tennis rackets, balls, related<br />
accessories such as strings and grips, clothing and<br />
shoes.<br />
If you need a stringer please go to the Directory of<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Racquet Specialists on page 38.<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd - Wilson J Price (Bath) Ltd<br />
Apollo Leisure K S <strong>UK</strong> Limited - K-Swiss<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong> Milliken Woollen Speciality<br />
Dunlop Products<br />
Fila <strong>UK</strong> Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Head <strong>UK</strong> Ltd Slazenger<br />
Hi-Tec Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd Volkl <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>UK</strong> & Ireland<br />
Independent Traders<br />
The <strong>UK</strong> has a long-established tradition of specialist<br />
tennis traders who bring colour and variety to<br />
tournaments and provide a year-round service to tennis<br />
enthusiasts.<br />
These traders have a wealth of knowledge and<br />
experience and offer a wide range of tennis-related<br />
products including art, bespoke tenniswear, books,<br />
calendars, collectables, diaries, DVDs, glassware,<br />
greeting cards, jewellery, photographs, postcards,<br />
posters, souvenirs, tournament prizes and trophies.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> products are hard to find in the high street, but<br />
the independent tennis industry offers choice, quality,<br />
value and good old-fashioned customer service.<br />
Daniell Smith Ltd Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Emporium Ltd <strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Sports Shops<br />
Traditionally the sports shop in the High Street has<br />
been the first port of call for most tennis enthusiasts<br />
seeking their tennis kit.<br />
The advent of big retail sports chains have offered<br />
competitive prices for tennis equipment and in recent<br />
years online shopping has become the market place of<br />
growth.<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s <strong>Tennis</strong> Racquet Specialist Scheme is a<br />
kite mark earned through participation by sports<br />
retailers in an education and certification programme<br />
that offers expert advice and services to the public.<br />
A directory of individual qualified stringers appears on<br />
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page 38 while this group of companies includes retail<br />
outlets for the buying public.<br />
Court Equipment & Services<br />
This group encompasses designers, manufacturers and<br />
supplier contractors of tennis courts, facilities, fencing,<br />
canvas and signage and so on.<br />
Many of the companies are also members of the Sports<br />
and Play Construction Association (SAPCA) and<br />
comply to their strict codes of practice (see page 31).<br />
AMB Sports Ltd M3 Surveying & Construction Ltd<br />
CopriSystems Ltd Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd Norseman Summit<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
J B Corrie & Co Ltd Sunbaba<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres Ltd Thornton Sports<br />
LTL Contracts Ltd<br />
Corporate Organisations<br />
These are professional organisations that provide<br />
specialist services to the game.<br />
European Racquets Stringers Association<br />
Sport and Play Construction Association<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>coach<strong>UK</strong> (British <strong>Tennis</strong> Coaches Association)<br />
The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong><br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> & Fitness Clubs<br />
The advent of the commercial tennis club over twenty<br />
years ago has evolved into a multi-billion pound<br />
leisure industry throughout the land. Around a million<br />
people and some 20,000 workers are active in this
area, including more than 750 tennis professionals.<br />
Making up this group are clubs and commercial centre<br />
operators, including:<br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd<br />
Harbour Club (The)<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres<br />
Next Generation Club, Swindon<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy<br />
Queen’s Club (The)<br />
Service Providers and Media<br />
There are many companies involved in providing a<br />
wide range of services to tennis including specialist<br />
consultancy advice, coaching services, design, event<br />
and player management, online website services as<br />
well as marketing and public relations services to<br />
name but a few.<br />
Publicity, news and media providers include tennis<br />
magazines, e-zines and websites.<br />
Specialist service providers include:<br />
1st Service <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Abbott Media Services<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Fotosports International<br />
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London <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Professional Sport <strong>UK</strong><br />
SLSP<br />
Sport Wins<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc<br />
TAB Services<br />
Tenlink<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibition Design Consultancy<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Today<br />
<strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Insurance<br />
Trioplus Limited<br />
Will To Win Ltd<br />
TRS Stringers<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s <strong>Tennis</strong> Racquet Specialist Scheme is a<br />
kite mark earned through participation by sports<br />
retailers in an education and certification programme<br />
that offers expert advice and services to the public.<br />
The programme is run for the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> by the European<br />
Racquet Stringers Association and provides a<br />
certification system that is the universally accepted<br />
standard around the world.<br />
A directory of individual qualified stringers appears on<br />
page 38.
User Listings<br />
For Players<br />
Looking for new rackets, balls, clothing or tennis wear?<br />
Want to accessorise yourself, your partner or your club?<br />
Fancy some coaching in the <strong>UK</strong> or abroad, or even enrolling in a new club?<br />
Want to get involved in some competitive events?<br />
The companies and services listed below are available to meet your needs.<br />
Accessories<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Apollo Leisure<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong><br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
Balls<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong><br />
Dunlop<br />
Head <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
J Price (Bath) Ltd<br />
Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Slazenger<br />
Clothing<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong><br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
Dunlop<br />
Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Clubs<br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd<br />
Harbour Club (The)<br />
Next Generation Club, Swindon<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy<br />
Queen’s Club (The)<br />
Coaching <strong>Book</strong>s and DVDs<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Coaching Services<br />
1st Services <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
David Lloyd Leisure<br />
Harbour Club (The)<br />
Next Generation Club Swindon<br />
Queen’s Club (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>coachuk (BTCA)<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Will To Win<br />
Competitions / Tournaments<br />
Abbott Media Services<br />
London <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
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Equipment Websites<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services Uk Ltd<br />
Exhibitions<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibition Design Consultancy<br />
Holidays<br />
Will To Win<br />
Mini <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd<br />
Harbour Club (The)<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
J Price (Bath) Ltd<br />
Next Generation Club Swindon<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy<br />
Queen’s Club (The)<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Rackets<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong><br />
Dunlop<br />
Head <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Slazenger<br />
Volkl <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>UK</strong> & Ireland<br />
Research & Participation analysis, player profiles<br />
and lifestyles<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc<br />
Shoes<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong><br />
Fila <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
K S <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – K-Swiss<br />
Hi-Tech Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Specialist Retailers<br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Emporium<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Will To Win
Stringing, Machines and Accessories<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Apollo Leisure<br />
Babolat <strong>UK</strong><br />
Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
For Fans<br />
Where do you indulge your passion for Rafa, or your love of fine tennis jewellery?<br />
Where do you buy tennis posters for your children, or bespoke tennis clothing?<br />
Where do you get Wimbledon films, and Mini <strong>Tennis</strong> books?<br />
How do you find the best tennis magazines, and the most up-to-date tennis websites?<br />
Where do you buy a thoughtful and original gift for the avid tennis enthusiast?<br />
There is a surprising amount of choice available to the tennis consumer, and this easy to use<br />
section tells you which companies can meet your particular needs.<br />
Art<br />
Fotosports International<br />
Professional Sport <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
<strong>Book</strong>s<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
Smash! (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Charities<br />
Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust (The)<br />
Collectables<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
DVDs<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Will To Win<br />
Digital Magazines<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
Entertainment<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Exhibitions<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibition Design Consultancy<br />
Gifts<br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
Scorpions Sports Gifts<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
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Greeting Cards<br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Jewellery<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Magazines & E-Zines<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Outlook<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Today<br />
Photographs<br />
Fotosports International<br />
Professional Sport <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Posters<br />
Fotosports International<br />
Professional Sport UL Ltd<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Research & <strong>Tennis</strong> Statistics<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc<br />
Calendars/Diaries<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Special Events<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd
User Listings<br />
For Clubs<br />
Are you upgrading your club facilities?<br />
Do you need to improve your club’s image?<br />
Are you considering new tennis courts?<br />
Do you need help in preparing a budget / business plan for a loan or grant?<br />
Help is at hand from any of the companies listed below.<br />
Ball Machines<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Apollo Leisure<br />
Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
Banners<br />
Sunbaba<br />
Bespoke Clothing<br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
Bubbles and Structures<br />
CopriSystems Ltd<br />
M3 Surveying & Construction Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Norseman Summit<br />
Coaching Equipment<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd<br />
Consultants<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres Ltd<br />
Sport Wins<br />
Tenlink<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
TrioPlus Ltd<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Will To Win<br />
Court Accessories<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
Court Canvass / Windbreaks<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd<br />
Sportsequip,co.uk<br />
Sunbaba<br />
Court Manufacturers<br />
AMB Sports Ltd<br />
M3 Surveying & Construction Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Thornton Sports<br />
Equipment Websites<br />
Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibitions Design Consultancy<br />
Fencing<br />
AMB Sports Ltd<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
J B Corrie & Co Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Floodlights<br />
AMB Sports Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
LTL Contracts Ltd<br />
Ground Equipment<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Indoor Courts<br />
AMB Sports Ltd<br />
CopriSystems Ltd<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres Ltd<br />
M3 Surveying & Construction Ltd<br />
Norseman Summit<br />
Thornton Sports<br />
Mini <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
See <strong>Tennis</strong> Equipment<br />
Nets & Posts<br />
AMB Sports Ltd<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
Practice Fence / Walls<br />
J B Corrie & Co Ltd<br />
Prizes<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Research<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc<br />
Scoreboards<br />
Apollo Leisure<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Sportsequip.co.uk
Special Events<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
SLSP<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibition Design Consultancy<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Equipment<br />
AMB Sports Ltd<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Apollo Leisure<br />
Dunlop<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Head <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
J Price (Bath) Ltd<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Slazenger<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
For Corporate Clients<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> is an ideal sport for companies or organisations to employ in the promotion of their own<br />
specific business. With its worldwide appeal, and its longevity with regards to play, the sport,<br />
and its players both past and present, provide an attractive background for hospitality events and<br />
meetings.<br />
Banners / Screens<br />
Sunbaba<br />
Conference Facilities<br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd<br />
Harbour Club (The)<br />
Next Generation Club, Swindon<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy<br />
Queen’s Club (The)<br />
Consultancy Services<br />
Abbott Media Services<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Sport Wins<br />
Tenlink<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibition Design Consultancy<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Entertainment<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Prestige Promotions<br />
SLSP<br />
Will To Win<br />
Event Management<br />
Abbott Media Services<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
SLSP<br />
Sport Wins<br />
Tenlink<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
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Trophies<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
Wall Decoration<br />
Fotosports International<br />
Professional Sport <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Website Services<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
TAB Services<br />
Tenlink<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Today Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
SLSP<br />
Sunbaba<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Emporium Ltd<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibitions Design Consultancy<br />
Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd (The)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Media Services<br />
Abbott Media Services<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
SLSP<br />
TAB Services<br />
Tenlink<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Today<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire Network<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
Photography<br />
Fotosports International<br />
Professional Sport <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Other Specialities<br />
1st Service <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
Sunbaba<br />
TAB Services<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Emporium Ltd<br />
Tenlink<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire Network<br />
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J. B. Corrie & Co Ltd<br />
B eing a <strong>TIA</strong> member allows J.B.Corrie to<br />
network with clubs (now known as<br />
Places to Play), fellow members and other<br />
organisations within the tennis industry and<br />
so helps us to actively build up our business.<br />
By attending <strong>TIA</strong> meetings we are kept upto-date<br />
with the important things that are<br />
happening in tennis at all levels, which is<br />
useful to our business as it flags up<br />
opportunities for us.<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> is fully committed to developing all<br />
of the issues that are beneficial to British<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> and we, as a company, fully support<br />
these efforts for the future well-being of<br />
sport.<br />
A healthy sport, ranging from the<br />
recreational to elitist, results in a buoyant<br />
market for us.<br />
The opportunities that have come<br />
J.B.Corrie’s way since becoming a member<br />
of <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> have been tremendous, resulting<br />
in increased enquiries and improved sales of<br />
our tennis products, particularly arising from<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong> and the website.<br />
J B Corrie recommends <strong>TIA</strong> membership to<br />
tennis businesses that support market growth<br />
because collectively the industry can make a<br />
real difference.
CopriSystems covering<br />
systems are available in<br />
spans ranging from 12m to<br />
36m with unlimited length<br />
in either fixed or telescopic<br />
versions.<br />
These tough, durable<br />
structures are ideally suitable<br />
for tennis courts, swimming<br />
pools, five a side football,<br />
horse riding and many<br />
other uses.<br />
■ Offers excellent value for money<br />
whilst providing complete<br />
environmental protection.<br />
■ Full length sliding side curtains<br />
provide maximum ventilation.<br />
End curtains also available.<br />
■ Multiple courts can be housed in<br />
either a single 36m span or in<br />
individual domes with full length<br />
interconnection.<br />
■ Custom manufactured and<br />
engineered for strength and<br />
durability in high-tensile steel.<br />
■ Translucent properties of roof<br />
material allows natural light to<br />
permeate through, thus reducing<br />
electricity costs.<br />
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Culfordʼs new Indoor <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre, built by<br />
Copri Systems and officially opened on<br />
5 May 2009 by Greg Rusedski.
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The A-Z of the tennis industry in the <strong>UK</strong><br />
For details on joining the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong>, the only trade association<br />
soley for tennis businesses, please see page 54.<br />
1st Service <strong>Tennis</strong> Limited<br />
18 Derwent Avenue Kingston Vale<br />
London SW15 2RD<br />
Phone 020 2548 8006<br />
Email Paul@1stservicetennis.com<br />
1st Service <strong>Tennis</strong> Limited is a company that provides<br />
coaching services and managing facilities<br />
Abbott Media Services<br />
Cedar Lodge, Howe Road, Watlington,<br />
OX49 5ER<br />
Tel 01491 612042<br />
Contact Henry Wancke<br />
AMS has provided a specialist editorial service which has<br />
included over the last 42 years, the editorship of <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
World, Serve & Volley and <strong>Tennis</strong> Today magazines in<br />
addition to coverage of events for the Press Association, the<br />
Daily Telegraph, British <strong>Tennis</strong> magazine and the Wimbledon<br />
Website.<br />
Currently editing the FortyFiver on behalf of the 45 Club and<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Outlook for the <strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong> as well<br />
as producing the Members’ Handbook for the Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Writers’ Association and The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong>.<br />
AMS has also been involved in establishing tennis events, the<br />
most successful being the Family Championships in<br />
association with Remington (1984-1992) and the Champion<br />
of Champions event for clubs with C&A. The former event<br />
was revived in 2007, visit familychampionships.org.uk for<br />
further information.<br />
In addition, AMS is available to act as a PR agency on behalf<br />
of tennis businesses.<br />
Advantage Media Network<br />
Barry House, 20-22 Worple Road,<br />
London SW19 4DH<br />
Phone 020 8947 0100<br />
Email bmarrison@advantagemedianet.com<br />
Web; advantagemedianet.com<br />
Contact: Bridget Marrison<br />
AMN is the <strong>UK</strong>’s leading tennis content agency. In addition to<br />
producing multimedia brand, <strong>Tennis</strong>head, AMN provides a<br />
range of media services for third parties<br />
Services Provided: AMN provides publishing services to a<br />
range of sporting businesses.<br />
Services include the production of creative content for all<br />
media platforms: Bespoke photography and video services:<br />
Design and production of<br />
promotional material: Website design, build and management;<br />
Digital Magazine and brochure production.<br />
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AMB Sports Ltd<br />
Unit 40, Blue Chalet Industrial Estate,<br />
London Road, West Kingsdown,<br />
Kent TN15 6BQ<br />
Phone: 0844 448 4370<br />
Fax: 0844 448 4371<br />
Email: info@ambsports.com<br />
Web: www.ambsports.com<br />
Contact: Bruce Hanhan<br />
AMB Sports is an established company employing highly<br />
motivated and skilled staff with over 50 years combined<br />
experiences in the design and construction of sports facilities.<br />
Its client portfolio contains many prestigious facilities<br />
including the All England Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> and Croquet Club,<br />
Crystal Palace Athletics Stadium, Loughborough University,<br />
Harrow School and the Wentworth Golf Course Estate.<br />
Product Range: Design and construction of sports facilities<br />
including athletic tracks and support facilities, synthetic<br />
pitches, tennis courts, MUGA, cricket facilities and bowling<br />
greens.<br />
Services Provided: Design, construction, maintenance and<br />
renovation of sports facilities.<br />
Amer Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd – Wilson<br />
Theta Building, Lyon Way, Frimley,<br />
Surrey GU16 7ER<br />
Phone 01276 404 800<br />
Fax 01276 40 4801<br />
Email stuart.preece@amersports.com<br />
Website www.wilson.com<br />
Contact Stuart Preece<br />
At the heart of sports history for almost a century, no other<br />
company has been as influential and intimately involved in<br />
shaping the games of tennis, golf, baseball and American<br />
football as Wilson.<br />
As the originator of breakthrough technologies, Wilson has<br />
produced legendary classics and earned world-wide<br />
legitimacy in each sport it participates in, particularly tennis.<br />
Backed by generations of athletes, Wilson is now owned by<br />
Amer Sports, the world’s leading sports equipment company.<br />
Listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki since 1977,<br />
Amer Sports Corporation had a turnover of 1.7 billion Euros<br />
and a market capitalization of 1.3 billion Euros in 2007 and, at<br />
the end of the year, the company employed 6,465 people<br />
worldwide.<br />
The business is based on strong global brands, trusted by<br />
consumers world-wide, including:<br />
Salomon - the mountain sports company<br />
Wilson - the authentic ball sports brand<br />
Precor - the global fitness equipment leader<br />
Atomic - the leading manufacturer of alpine skis<br />
Suunto - the leading manufacturer of sports instruments<br />
Mavic - the leading cycling systems brand<br />
Arc’teryx - the most progressive outdoor gear
Apollo Leisure<br />
Unit 1 Forest Close<br />
Ebblake Industrial Estate<br />
Verwood, Dorset BH31 6DE<br />
Phone 01202 812 000<br />
Fax 01202 827 040<br />
Email jeremyholt@apolloleisure.co.uk<br />
Website www.apolloleisure.co.uk<br />
Contact Jeremy Holt<br />
Apollo Leisure has been the <strong>UK</strong>’s leading supplier of racket<br />
sports accessories and equipment for 30 years selling to<br />
retailers, club shops and professional coaches.<br />
It distributes a wide range of racket strings, grips, accessories<br />
and other racket sport related products.<br />
The company is proud to be associated with many of the<br />
leading brand names in racket sports and is the exclusive<br />
distributor for Prince, Head and Gamma racket accessories in<br />
the <strong>UK</strong> and for the last 3 years has run the ‘on site’ stringing<br />
service at the Championships, Wimbledon<br />
Babolat VS <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
2 Mulberry Court<br />
59 B London Road<br />
Bagshot, Surrey<br />
GU19 5DT<br />
Tel: 01276 473172<br />
Fax: 01276 475213<br />
Email fdebeauvais@babolat.com<br />
Web www.babolat.com<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Equipment Supplier.<br />
Product Range: <strong>Tennis</strong> and Badminton rackets, strings/grips<br />
and accessories, tennis balls, footwear, apparel, stringing<br />
machines.<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Limited<br />
8 The Knoll, Beckenham, Kent BR3 5JW<br />
Phone: 07768 665 458<br />
Email: info@celebritytennis.co.uk<br />
Website: www.celebritytennis.co.uk<br />
Contacts: Sheila O’Reilly and Peter Risdon (020 8672 8131)<br />
Currently undergoing a major revamp, Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
creates special events perfectly tailored to promote<br />
organisations, companies or clubs by bringing a fresh<br />
approach in tennis entertainment with our group of tennis<br />
legends and Wimbledon champions.<br />
Invite your clients and staff to a special experience that will<br />
help to build relationships and be truly memorable, because<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> events are always fun.<br />
Meeting the tennis legend of your dreams and rubbing<br />
shoulders with champions both on and off the court are<br />
experiences to relish.<br />
We run <strong>Tennis</strong> Days in conjunction with business throughout<br />
the <strong>UK</strong>, incorporating Pro/Am tournaments and exhibition<br />
tennis, offering the perfect function to match your needs with<br />
an affordable budget. You are assured of high level service<br />
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while we take care of the details, allowing you to spend time<br />
with your clients. We offer a no-obligation quote and are<br />
happy to discuss your ideas so we can tailor-make your event<br />
to your requirements. Do something different this year and<br />
book a tennis legend for your event now!<br />
CopriSystems Ltd<br />
Broughton Down, Nether Wallop,<br />
Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 8DS<br />
Phone: 01794 301 000<br />
Fax: 01794 301 342<br />
Email: info@coprisystems.com<br />
Website: www.coprisystems.com<br />
Contact: Vanessa Holmes, Office Manager<br />
<strong>UK</strong> specialists in covering technology for warehousing,<br />
logistics, sports and leisure applications and many other<br />
applications, CopriSystems supplies and erects a wide range<br />
of static, folding and telescopic canopies, domes and tunnel<br />
systems for use by many leading <strong>UK</strong> companies in a wide<br />
variety of industrial, commercial, sports and leisure activities.<br />
CopriSystems covering systems are ideal for tennis courts,<br />
swimming pools, five-a-side football, horse riding and many<br />
other uses.<br />
CopriSystems’ technical expertise, design flexibility,<br />
manufacturing excellence and responsive service have made it<br />
a leader in its field, with few other companies in Europe<br />
offering such a wide range of services.<br />
The company’s extensive knowledge and experience of<br />
lightweight industrial buildings - loading bay canopies,<br />
warehousing, dockshelters and sports and leisure halls -<br />
underpins an unrivalled capability to provide an individual<br />
solution to every project - and ensure that its design and<br />
installation meets the exacting specification required by each<br />
client.<br />
For tennis courts, fixed or telescopic covers are available in<br />
spans ranging from 12m to 40m with unlimited length; each<br />
system custom manufactured and engineered for strength and<br />
durability in high-tensile steel, hot dip galvanised for<br />
corrosion protection. The cover is manufactured from<br />
abrasion resistant, self extinguishing PVC-coated polyester<br />
fabric of 900g/m2 tested to BS 5438. Engineered in one piece,<br />
the cover is maintained in tension, giving a combination of<br />
strength, durability and good looks. The cover’s translucent<br />
properties allow natural light to permeate through.<br />
The Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust<br />
c/o Sport Wins, PO Box 238, Tadworth,<br />
KT20 5WT<br />
Tel 01737 831707<br />
Email: danmaskell@sportwins.co.uk<br />
Website: www.danmaskelltennistrust.org.uk<br />
Contact: Gilly English<br />
The Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust is a charity (No. 1133589)<br />
which raises funds to help people with disabilities who wish<br />
to play tennis.
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Funds are used for the grant aid programme which supports<br />
wheelchair tennis, deaf tennis, tennis for people with learning<br />
disabilities and tennis for the visually impaired. Specialist<br />
wheelchairs, tennis equipment and funding towards coaching<br />
and court hire is available for groups and individuals.<br />
The Trust is named after the late Dan Maskell, the BBC TV<br />
commentator known affectionately as ‘the voice of<br />
Wimbledon’. Dan had a special empathy with disabled players<br />
and was awarded an OBE in 1945 for his work as the RAF’s<br />
first rehabilitation Officer.<br />
Elaine Paige is the current President of the Trust and is an<br />
active supporter of its work and fundraising activities. The<br />
Trust is the official charity of the <strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong>.<br />
Daniell Smith Ltd<br />
Email daniellsmithltd@aol.com<br />
Phone 01689 854259<br />
Mobile 07941 236712<br />
Contact Frank Daniell<br />
Daniell Smith specialise in the design of bright new eyecatching<br />
tennis logos and tennis apparel. Whether one is a<br />
recreational participant, or with aspirations of greater<br />
achievements, we have tennis tops for everyone.<br />
These are innovative, exclusive logos available on babies’<br />
bibs and T-shirts, through to teenagers and more mature<br />
adults offering a wide choice of polos and warm-up tops – the<br />
choice is yours!<br />
All merchandise is manufactured on the very best fabrics to<br />
give the wearer ‘the feel good factor’. Take a look at the<br />
selection of accessories – sweat bands, socks, multi-coloured<br />
laces, tennis ball key-rings, jumbo novelty inflatable tennis<br />
balls (which are great for the avid autograph hunter) and even<br />
greetings cards.<br />
Don’t follow the crowd – be a leader – wear your garments<br />
with pride – buy from Daniell Smith.<br />
Product Range: Innovative tennis logos and tennis wear,<br />
produced on high quality fabrics and a wide range of<br />
accessories.<br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd<br />
Mosquito Way, Hatfield Business Park,<br />
Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AX<br />
Phone 01707 283 500<br />
Web www.davidlloyd.co.uk<br />
Contact Steven Matthews<br />
The David Lloyd Leisure Group operates 78 clubs in the <strong>UK</strong><br />
and a further 10 sites across Europe. The Group, which is<br />
now Europe’s largest rackets, health and fitness operator, was<br />
formed on the 1st January 2008 following the acquisition of<br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd by London & Regional Properties,<br />
owners of Next Generation Clubs.<br />
The group now incorporates 75 David Lloyd Leisure Clubs,<br />
1Next Generation Club and 2 Harbour Clubs in the <strong>UK</strong>. There<br />
are also 10 sites in Europe including clubs in Amsterdam,<br />
Brussels, Barcelona and Dublin.<br />
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The combination of these leading brands in rackets, health<br />
and fitness, has created an extensive portfolio of family<br />
orientated clubs with unrivalled facilities and service levels for<br />
our members.<br />
David Lloyd Leisure has over 450,000 members and employs<br />
some 6000 people; including an expert health & fitness team<br />
of over 750 and more than 350 tennis professionals.<br />
Across all clubs, David Lloyd Leisure has 12,500 exercise<br />
machines, over 150 swimming pools (of which half are<br />
indoor) and offers over 10,000 exercise classes per week.<br />
Our rackets facilities are unparalleled with 700 tennis courts<br />
(over half of which are indoor), as well as 180 badminton<br />
courts and 140 squash courts. Additional facilities include<br />
health & beauty spas, club lounges with free internet access,<br />
crèches, nurseries and specialist sports shops to name a few.<br />
Dunlop Slazenger International Ltd<br />
Meadow Lane, Shirebrook, Mansfield,<br />
Nottinghamshire, NG20 8RY<br />
Phone: 0870 838 7310<br />
Web www.dunlopsport.com and www.slazenger.com<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> equipment and sports goods manufacturer<br />
Edwards Sports Products Ltd<br />
Unit 8-9 Hounsell Building, North Mills,<br />
Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3BE<br />
Phone: 01308 424 111<br />
Email sales@edsports.co.uk<br />
Web www.edsports.co.uk<br />
Contact Archie Barclay<br />
Founded in 1884 Edwards is the longest established<br />
manufacturer of sports equipment in the U.K. Over the course<br />
of its 126 year history Edwards has developed a pre-eminent<br />
position as the leading supplier of tennis court equipment.<br />
Edwards manufactures and supplies a comprehensive range<br />
of tennis nets, posts, umpires chairs, court surround screens<br />
and accessories to the tennis industry worldwide.<br />
Each year television images of Edwards’s quality equipment<br />
are beamed worldwide during the annual Wimbledon<br />
Championships. Edwards is contracted each year to supply<br />
Slazenger with equipment for the Championships. Recently<br />
Edwards added Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to an evergrowing<br />
roster of prestigious venues where the company’s equipment<br />
has been used and the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New<br />
Delhi also featured the British manufacturer’s nets and posts.<br />
Edwards is also the preferred supplier to all of the major<br />
indoor court providers in the U.K.<br />
In addition to tennis equipment Edwards also manufacture a<br />
comprehensive range of football, rugby, hockey and cricket<br />
products. Edwards’s football equipment is in use at the<br />
majority of the Premiership training grounds. Edwards is also<br />
a member of SAPCA and also manufactures a full range of<br />
equipment for use on synthetic pitches.
European Racquet Stringers Association (ERSA)<br />
Lenaustr.38, 40470 Dusseldorf,<br />
Germany<br />
Phone: 0049 211 87511548<br />
Email: mmaslo3330@aol.com<br />
Web www.ersa-stringers.com<br />
Contact: Mark Maslowski<br />
The ERSA offers membership to racket sports manufacturers,<br />
shops, stringers and coaches. Information is supplied through<br />
RacquetTech magazine, The Stringers Digest, ersastringers.com<br />
and ERSA e-newsletters. Workshops are offered<br />
along with internationally accredited certification.<br />
Fila <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Unit 1 Colonial Business Park<br />
Colonial Way, Watford<br />
Hertfordshire WD24 4PR<br />
Tel: 01923 288 555<br />
Fax: 01923 288 500<br />
Email: webinfo@filauk.com<br />
Web: www.FILA.eu<br />
Contact: Paul Siviter<br />
Fila is a leading authentic sports brand which celebrates its<br />
centenary in <strong>2011</strong>. Inspired by the style, elegance and passion<br />
of its Italian heritage, it continues to develop a strong legacy<br />
in tennis that very few brands can replicate. The brand,<br />
currently worn by the likes of Kim Clijsters, Svetlana<br />
Kuznetsova and Marin Cilic, is also the official shoe of The<br />
Wimbledon Championships and continues to grow from<br />
strength to strength.<br />
Fotosports International<br />
The Barn, Swanbourne, Bucks<br />
<strong>UK</strong> MK17 0SL<br />
Phone 01296 720773<br />
Email info@fotosports.com<br />
Web www.fotosports.com<br />
Contact Roger Parker<br />
Fotosports International was founded in 1968 - making it one<br />
of the oldest sports picture agencies - and has been covering<br />
top class international and domestic sport ever since.<br />
We continue to supply “live” and archive images to national<br />
and international newspapers, magazines and television and<br />
our Worldwide partners via subscription downloads from our<br />
website and “live” e-mail or ftp push during play.<br />
We have covered every World Cup soccer finals since 1970<br />
and European Soccer Championships since 1984.<br />
Use our online image bank search facility now to browse<br />
350,000 of our current and “archive” soccer, tennis and<br />
Formula One images from a total archive of over 500,000<br />
pictures featuring Soccer - <strong>Tennis</strong> - Golf - NFL – American<br />
Football - Athletics - Motor Sport - Rugby - Cricket etc.<br />
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The Harbour Club<br />
Watermeadow Lane, London SW6 2RR<br />
Phone 020 7751 9443<br />
Web www.harbourclub.co.uk<br />
Generally acknowledged as the finest Club in London, ranking<br />
amongst the best in the world, the Harbour Club offers<br />
members an unrivalled selection of facilities and services.<br />
The beauty of the Harbour Club, and what makes it so special<br />
compared to any other club in town, is that it complements<br />
every individual and family lifestyle, offering space, an<br />
unrivalled selection of facilities and services and style.<br />
Whatever you want from a club; somewhere to exercise or<br />
swim, play competitive or social tennis, or a place to spend<br />
time with your family, the Harbour Club fits the bill perfectly.<br />
And by having everything in one place, it’s so much easier to<br />
juggle hectic personal and professional lives, which is why<br />
members spend so much time here!<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Pinbush Road, Lowestoft,<br />
Suffolk NR33 7NL<br />
Phone 01502 583 515<br />
Fax 01502 582 456<br />
Email les@harrod.uk.com<br />
Web www.harrod.uk.com<br />
Contact Leslie Saunders<br />
Harrod <strong>UK</strong> is the <strong>UK</strong>’s leading sports ground equipment and<br />
netting manufacturer. Based in Suffolk. it produces nets and<br />
posts for tennis as well as equipment for other sports and was<br />
the Official Supplier of Sports Equipment to the Manchester<br />
2002 Commonwealth Games. The company has supplied<br />
equipment to such venues as the Millennium Stadium,<br />
Wembley Stadium, The National Hockey Stadium, the National<br />
Badminton Centre and a host of Premier League Clubs.<br />
HEAD <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
2 Beezon Road, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 6BW<br />
Phone 01539 724740<br />
Email info@uk.head.com<br />
Website www.head.com<br />
Contact Dave Shaw<br />
The company’s brand portfolio includes HEAD winter (ski and<br />
boots, snowboard equipment), Tyrolia (ski bindings) HEAD<br />
Racketsports (tennis, squash and badminton equipment),<br />
HEAD/Penn (tennis balls and racquetball balls) and Mares<br />
(diving equipment). Over the last 50 years, HEAD has earned<br />
a reputation as a leader in developing innovative, high quality<br />
and technologically advanced sporting equipment, which it<br />
typically sells to middle and high price points in the market.<br />
Its products are sold throughout 30,000 accounts in over 80<br />
countries, targeting sports enthusiasts of varying levels of<br />
ability and interest ranging from the novice to the professional<br />
athlete. Most of its sales are in Europe, United States and<br />
Japan, with Europe being HEAD’s largest market.
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Hi-Tec Sports <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
Aviation Way,<br />
Southend-on-Sea,<br />
Essex SS2 6GH<br />
Phone: 01702 541 741<br />
Fax: 01702 547 947<br />
Email: post@hi-tecsports.com<br />
Website: http://www.hi-tec.com/<br />
Contact: Joe Holland<br />
HI-TEC builds instantly comfortable lightweight footwear for<br />
the outdoors, golf, and court sport activities.<br />
Why? Because leisure time is too precious to walk around<br />
feeling uncomfortable in your shoes.<br />
Founded in 1974 in the appropriately named village of<br />
Shoeburyness, in Essex, England, HI-TEC’s squash shoe<br />
established the benchmark in athletic footwear and the model<br />
remains Britain’s all time best selling sports shoe model to<br />
this day.<br />
The HI-TEC brand was globally launched in 1982 and became<br />
a casebook study at the Harvard Business School.<br />
Today there are over 500 HI-TEC styles commercialized<br />
throughout 80 countries world-wide, under the Hi-Tec<br />
Outdoor, Hi-Tec Court, Hi-Tec Golf, Hi-Tec Sport, Urban<br />
collections and Magnum brands for sports and footwear<br />
enthusiasts.<br />
Hi-Tec has a rich heritage in tennis with many top players<br />
having worn the brand including Henri Leconte and Annabel<br />
Croft. Hi-Tec was also the Official Shoe of The<br />
Championships, Wimbledon for 8 years.<br />
The company currently employs approximately 500<br />
employees and generates global sales of more than US $250<br />
million.<br />
J B Corrie & Co Ltd<br />
Frenchmans Road, Petersfield,<br />
Hants GU32 3AP<br />
Phone 01730 237 129<br />
Fax 01730 264 915<br />
Email mhickman@jbcorrie.co.uk<br />
Website www.jbcorrie.co.uk<br />
Contact Maurice Hickman<br />
J.B.Corrie is one of the leading manufacturers of <strong>Tennis</strong> Court<br />
and Sports Fencing in the U.K.<br />
Corrie manufacture Tubular <strong>Tennis</strong> Court surrounds as well as<br />
traditional Angle Iron surrounds for supply to most of the<br />
major <strong>Tennis</strong> Court Contractors in the U.K.<br />
The Company moved to its current site in 1946, where it now<br />
employs over 100 staff engaged in the manufacture and<br />
installation of all different kinds of perimeter fencing and<br />
gates.<br />
Corrie also manufacture and install the ServeAce <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Practice Fence.<br />
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J Price (Bath) Ltd<br />
Quarry Hill Works, Box,<br />
Wiltshire SN13 8LH<br />
Phone 01225 742 141<br />
Fax 01225 743 237<br />
Email: tennisquash@pricebathltd.freeserve.co.uk<br />
Web www.jpricebath.co.uk<br />
Contact Derek Price<br />
For over 70 years, Price of Bath have been manufacturing<br />
tennis and squash balls and supplying most, if not all,<br />
international racket companies at some time.<br />
In fact, the company is the only independent developer and<br />
manufacturer of tennis balls in Britain today and the only <strong>UK</strong><br />
ball maker producing mini tennis balls developed for The<br />
Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association. Also make tennis ball key rings<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres Ltd<br />
PO Box 188, Knaphill, Woking,<br />
Surrey GU21 2HQ<br />
Phone 01482 797 030<br />
Fax 01483 487 040<br />
Email keith.sohl@btinternet.com<br />
Contact Keith Sohl<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres Ltd is the developer of the Sutton<br />
Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre, the country’s first and only indoor junior<br />
tennis centre, which opened in 1991.<br />
A joint venture between London Borough of Sutton and Junior<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Centres Limited, Sutton Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre has<br />
become the <strong>UK</strong>’s leading tennis centre for the development of<br />
junior performance players and grass-roots tennis.<br />
The company also provides a consultancy service to IBM and<br />
the All England Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Club.<br />
K S <strong>UK</strong> Ltd (K-Swiss)<br />
Tannery House, 4 Middle Leigh,<br />
Street, Somerset BA16 0LA<br />
Phone 01458 449 301<br />
Fax 01458 446 536<br />
Email srobins@k-swiss.co.uk<br />
Web http://www.k-swiss.co.uk<br />
Contact Sarah Robins<br />
K-Swiss designs, develops and markets high performance 29<br />
and recreational footwear and apparel, which is distributed in<br />
the <strong>UK</strong> by K S <strong>UK</strong> limited.<br />
Founded by two Swiss brothers in 1966 in California, K-<br />
Swiss is now sold in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong,<br />
Singapore, Australia, New Zealand as well as Central and<br />
South America.
LTL Contracts Ltd<br />
54 Lower Weybourne Lane,<br />
Farnham, Surrey GU9 9HP<br />
Phone: 01252 331456<br />
Fax: 01252 331246<br />
Email: LTLContracts@ntlbusiness.com<br />
Contact: Ian Hounsham<br />
For 17 years LTL Contracts has been designing and supplying<br />
solutions for sports lighting applications, during which we<br />
have acquired a reputation for quality, value and reliability,<br />
based on our skill and experience, attention to detail, and<br />
pride in meeting our customer’s expectations.<br />
LTL offers a free lighting design service and will happily<br />
provide advice, a site survey and assistance with planning<br />
applications.<br />
At the forefront of floodlighting technology, LTL’s schemes<br />
specify top of the range <strong>UK</strong> manufactured equipment. When it<br />
comes to installations, LTL have the advantage of their own<br />
dedicated and experienced team of ground and electrical<br />
workers. LTL caters for sports at all levela and installations<br />
include:<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Courts Multi-use games areas School and<br />
College sports facilities Sports Domes Indoor Sports Halls<br />
LTL’s lighting schemes are all offered with a maintenance plan<br />
for ongoing testing, cleaning and servicing to ensure continuing<br />
optimum performance.<br />
London <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
13 King Charles Walk,<br />
London SW19 6JA<br />
Phone 020 8789 0482<br />
Email paul@londontennis.co.uk<br />
Web www.londontennis.co.uk<br />
Contact Paul Barton<br />
London <strong>Tennis</strong> is a web based network of London tennis<br />
players and provider of leagues and competitions for adult<br />
players.<br />
The company stages competitions such as leagues and an<br />
annual Knock-out tournament.<br />
London <strong>Tennis</strong> is for tennis players of all standards who just<br />
want to get out and play. Use the site for free to find partners,<br />
find courts, and record scores to receive a site ranking which<br />
assists in finding players of a similar standard.<br />
Whether playing ‘friendlies’ or taking part in box leagues and<br />
knockout tournaments, this unique website is a popular<br />
networking hub for London’s tennis players.<br />
There are four league seasons per year, each lasting<br />
approximately twelve weeks and costing £15 each to enter.<br />
Results of all league matches between LTA members are sent<br />
to the LTA and contribute to their national LTA ranking as well<br />
as their London <strong>Tennis</strong> ranking.<br />
6,813 matches have been recorded between London <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
members at 252 different venues across London in the last<br />
twelve months.<br />
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M3 Surveying & Construction Ltd<br />
59 Ash Tree Road, Southampton,<br />
Hampshire SO18 1LY<br />
Phone 07977 567 305<br />
Fax 023 8058 1888<br />
Email marklilley@m3construction.co.uk<br />
Contact Mark Lilley<br />
M3 Construction specialises in the design, construction and<br />
refurbishment of tennis courts and other sports facilities. We<br />
are able to advise on all aspects of the construction of tennis<br />
courts such as surface, floodlighting and fencing.<br />
The company is run by Mark Lilley (BEng), a Civil Engineer,<br />
who is also a keen tennis player when time allows.<br />
Product Range: tennis courts; synthetic and natural turf<br />
pitches; athletics tracks; multi-use games areas; cricket<br />
facilities; bowling greens; and petanque rinks.<br />
Services Provided: design, construction, refurbishment and<br />
maintenance of outdoor sports facilities<br />
Midland CSB Ltd<br />
8a Holly Court, Holly Farm Business Park,<br />
Honiley, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1NP<br />
Phone: 01926 484 530<br />
Email: kallan@midlandcsb.co.uk<br />
Web: www.tenniscourtbuilders.co.uk<br />
Contact: Ken Allan<br />
MCSB is a growing Warwickshire based company working<br />
throughout the <strong>UK</strong>. Primarily involved with the construction,<br />
refurbishment and maintenance of tennis courts and multi-use<br />
sports areas.<br />
Principal contractor member of SAPCA, registered with<br />
Constructionline and CHAS.<br />
Product Range: <strong>Tennis</strong> Courts and multi-use games areas in a<br />
variety of surfaces and fencing styles, Tarmac, Acrylic,<br />
Synthetic Grass and Clay.<br />
Services Provided: Construction of single or blocks of tennis<br />
courts and multi-use games areas including fencing, lighting<br />
and landscaping.<br />
Milliken Woollen Speciality Products<br />
Lodgemore Mills, Stroud,<br />
Gloucestershire GL5 3EJ<br />
Phone 01453 764 456<br />
Fax 01453 752 919<br />
Email Duncan.Kettell@milliken.com<br />
Web www.milliken-wsp.com<br />
Contact Duncan Kettell<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> ball cloth or melton has been manufactured at our<br />
factory in the West of England since the early 20th century,<br />
originally under the Playne’s name that’s still recognised<br />
today.<br />
Nearly 100 years of tradition and highly sophisticated<br />
manufacturing techniques have been combined to produce a<br />
superior performing product, which is now the choice of all
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the leading manufacturers and brands in the tennis industry.<br />
Our resume includes Dunlop Fort, Slazenger Wimbledon,<br />
Head ATP, Tretorn, Tecnifibre, Wilson Tour and the Wilson US<br />
Open tennis ball brands.<br />
Playne’s tennis cloth by Milliken is selected for three grand<br />
slam tournaments; Wimbledon, the French Open and the<br />
Australian Open, and many other major tournaments around<br />
the world.<br />
Next Generation Club Swindon<br />
Kembrey Park, Kembrey Street,<br />
Swindon SN2 8LY<br />
Phone 020 7751 9443<br />
Web www.redefineyourself.co.uk<br />
With some of the best sports, fitness and leisure facilities in<br />
Europe, you’ll find the Next Generation feels like your family’s<br />
home from home. Come and take a dip in our fabulous indoor<br />
or outdoor pool, play on our superb tennis courts and work<br />
out in our state-of-the-art gym. Then spoil yourself in our<br />
luxurious Spa. Or, just sit back and enjoy a drink and meal in<br />
our restaurant and bar and then unwind on our terrace<br />
Norseman Summit<br />
1-8 Enterprise Glade, Bath Yard,<br />
Moira, Swadlincote,<br />
Derbyshire DE12 6BA<br />
<strong>UK</strong>: 0800 3891490 Outside <strong>UK</strong>: +44 (0)1283 554120<br />
Email: kdexter@norsemanstructures.com<br />
Web: www.norsemanstructures.com<br />
Contact: Keith Dexter<br />
Norseman Summit is the foremost steel-framed, engineered<br />
fabric building supplier which offers custom design,<br />
construction, and project management services to clients<br />
worldwide. From project concept to completion, Norseman<br />
Summit has a strong commitment to a quality product and<br />
superior service. Excellence in building design and<br />
technology and a continued focus on safety and quality gives<br />
you confidence in the strength and reliability of a trusted<br />
advisor.<br />
Norseman Summit believes in excellence in every aspect of<br />
business and promotes an entrepreneurial spirit making<br />
excellence achievable. Practice and play year-round in a clearspan,<br />
naturally lit environment with a Norseman Summit<br />
building.<br />
Norseman Summit – Fiercely Reliable since 1921.<br />
Product Range: Norseman Summit is a provider of steelframed,<br />
engineered fabric buildings. Our buildings can be<br />
custom designed to meet your application, 5.5 m wide to 90m<br />
wide and to any length required.<br />
Services Provided: Norseman Summit offers design,<br />
construction, and project management services to clients<br />
worldwide.<br />
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Prince Sports Europe Ltd<br />
Thames House, 116 High Street,<br />
Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1NT<br />
Phone 020 8973 0310<br />
Email jonballardie@princesports.co.uk<br />
Web www.princetennis.com<br />
Contact Jon Ballardie<br />
At Prince, tennis is really all we think about – because it is all<br />
we do. Therefore we are always putting the tennis player first.<br />
Since its inception, this privately held company has grown to<br />
represent the highest quality, most visionary products and<br />
programs in the sport, along the way becoming one of the<br />
most respected, far reaching and successful brands. The<br />
Prince name is synonymous with tennis excellence with a<br />
trademark that is one of the most prestigious and well-known<br />
in the sporting goods industry.<br />
Product Range includes tennis rackets (performance, club,<br />
junior, play & stay); tennis balls; tennis footwear; tennis<br />
apparel and accessories; tennis strings, grips & racket<br />
accessories; racket sport bags; stringing machines; dynamic<br />
racket testing machines; play & stay mini-tennis; on court<br />
equipment & accessories.<br />
Professional Sport <strong>UK</strong> Ltd<br />
6, Gypsy Lane Great Amwell<br />
Ware Hertfordshire SG12 9RN<br />
Phone: +441992 505000<br />
Fax: +441992 505020<br />
Email: pictures@prosport.co.uk<br />
Website: www.professionalsport.com<br />
Contact: Tommy Hindley<br />
Professional Sport is a specialist sports library.<br />
Tommy Hindley, our award winning photographer who<br />
established Professional Sport in 1977, has been commended<br />
10 times in the sports photographer of the year competition<br />
and just last year awarded the prestigious <strong>Tennis</strong> Europe<br />
Award for outstanding contribution to the <strong>Tennis</strong> media.<br />
Professional Sport provide award-winning photographs,<br />
covering a range of over one hundred sports, from major<br />
international to local amateur grassroots events.<br />
Our photographers constantly supply the library with highly<br />
creative images and also undertake commissions. We offer an<br />
efficient and fast service for your specific requirements.<br />
Images are available via FTP , email, please register at<br />
www.professionalsport.com for username and password.<br />
Our clients include editorial, advertising, design and PR<br />
agencies, Sports Associations and sports sponsors, book and<br />
magazine publishers, on-line services, press and TV worldwide.<br />
Our specialties are: <strong>Tennis</strong>, football and rugby.<br />
Size of library: Over a million images and still increasing<br />
daily.
The Queen’s Club<br />
Palliser Road, West Kensington, London W14 9EQ<br />
Phone 020 7386 3400<br />
Fax 020 7386 8295<br />
Web www.queensclub.co.uk<br />
Contact: Andrew Stewart<br />
Home of the AEGON Championships, The Queen’s Club<br />
boasts 28 outdoor Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> courts, of which 12 are<br />
arguably the finest grass courts in the world, 8 indoor Lawn<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> courts, 2 Real <strong>Tennis</strong> courts, 2 Rackets courts, 3<br />
Squash courts and a gymnasium. The Club also offers<br />
excellent hospitality facilities, including an elegant Restaurant,<br />
Cafe, Real <strong>Tennis</strong> Museum, and President’s Room - all located<br />
within the Members’ Clubhouse.<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts<br />
12 Burnmoor View, Ingleton, Carnforth,<br />
Lancs LA6 3BL<br />
Tel 01524 242262<br />
Email: jane@scorpionsportsgifts.com<br />
Web: www.scorpionsportsgifts.com<br />
Contact: Jane Portwell<br />
Scorpion Sports Gifts is an online retailer of a wide variety of<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gifts including tennis themed stationery items,<br />
notebooks, jewellery, key rings, net-checks, novelty grips and<br />
dampeners. We also make up party bags for retail customers<br />
and clubs/centres.<br />
We are a Trade supplier to coaches and clubs, offering<br />
coaches the chance to take advantage of Trade Prices on<br />
products to use as prizes in their coaching programmes.<br />
Many of our products are ideal for Mini <strong>Tennis</strong> and Club<br />
Tournament prizes.<br />
Our customer base stretches the length and breadth of the<br />
country and we keep our customers up to date with the<br />
addition of new products to our range with a regular (but not<br />
too regular!) newsletter.<br />
Product Range: <strong>Tennis</strong> themed gifts: stationery items,<br />
notebooks, jewellery, key rings, net-checks, novelty grips,<br />
dampeners, Party Bags.<br />
Services provided: Supply our products at trade prices to<br />
coaches and clubs for use as prizes in tennis coaching<br />
programmes, mini tennis and club tournaments.<br />
The Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection Ltd<br />
PO Box 25746, Wimbledon,<br />
London SW20 0WG<br />
Phone: 0753 857 6470<br />
Email silvertennis@btinternet.com<br />
Web www.silvertenniscollection.com<br />
Contact: Robert Fuller<br />
Specialist dealer in tennis jewellery, gifts and antiquities.<br />
Supplier of tennis trophies and awards plus trophy restoration<br />
and engraving service. Can provide Exhibitions on the History<br />
of <strong>Tennis</strong>.<br />
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Product Range: <strong>Tennis</strong> Jewellery, gifts, trophies, corporate<br />
gifts, exhibitions of tennis history with rare original<br />
memorabilia 1850-1970<br />
Services Provided: Trophy restoration and engraving<br />
Slazenger<br />
See Dunlop Slazenger International<br />
www.slazenger.com<br />
SLSP<br />
44 Hill Street, Richmond, Surrey<br />
TW9 1TW<br />
Phone 07702 124393<br />
Email sallylockyer@aol.com<br />
Contact Sally Lockyer<br />
SLSP is a consultancy business providing marketing and<br />
commercial services to the sports and media sectors. With<br />
extensive experience of major events (Olympics, Commonwealth<br />
Games, World Championships); sports brands (Nike Europe,<br />
Reebok, Kappa, Lotto); sponsorship (Microsoft, Virgin, Coca-<br />
Cola, Prudential); leisure operators (David Lloyd Leisure) and<br />
in the music business providing technology to some of the<br />
world’s largest tours (Live 8, Madonna, Il Divo, Spice Girls<br />
and Robbie Williams). The company is headed by Sally<br />
Lockyer, a Board Member of the <strong>TIA</strong>.<br />
Sport Wins<br />
PO Box 238, Tadworth,<br />
Surrey KT20 5WT<br />
Phone: 01737 831707<br />
Mobile: 07904 526779<br />
Email: gilly@sportwins.co.uk<br />
Website: www.sportwins.co.uk<br />
Contact details Gilly English<br />
Sport Wins was set up specifically to organise sporting events<br />
and initiatives on behalf of the governing bodies and<br />
sponsors of sport.<br />
Specialising in the grass roots of sport, and offering services<br />
of administration and organisation for all aspects of events or<br />
programmes, Sport Wins has extensive experience of<br />
organising national and international schools events and<br />
development programmes on behalf of the national governing<br />
bodies.<br />
We also assist with applications for funding from government<br />
and other agencies and help in the organisation of fundraising<br />
and promotional activities.<br />
Sport Wins is currently contracted to raise funds and<br />
administer The Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust, a charity which<br />
helps disabled people to play tennis.<br />
Our other major contract is providing administrative services<br />
to the <strong>Tennis</strong> Industry Association <strong>UK</strong> Ltd, the only official<br />
trade association solely for tennis businesses.
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Sports and Play Construction Association (SAPCA)<br />
Federation House, Stoneleigh Park,<br />
Warwickshire CV8 2RF<br />
Phone 024 7641 6316<br />
Fax 024 7641 4773<br />
Email info@sapca.org.uk<br />
Web www.sapca.org.uk<br />
Contact Chris Trickey<br />
SAPCA is the recognised trade organisation in the <strong>UK</strong> for the<br />
tennis court construction industry, and represents specialist<br />
builders of tennis courts, manufacturers and suppliers of<br />
tennis surfaces and related equipment, as well as independent<br />
tennis facility consultants.<br />
The Association plays an important role in the promotion of<br />
high standards for tennis and other sports facilities.<br />
Membership signifies professional competence and<br />
performance through compliance with SAPCA’s Codes of<br />
Practice.<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc<br />
The Courtyard, Wisley, Surrey,<br />
GU23 6QL<br />
Phone: 07500 777 565<br />
e-mail: john.bushell@sportsmarketingsurveysinc.com<br />
e-mail: andy.russell@sportsmarketingsurveysinc.com<br />
web: www.sportsmarketingsurveysinc.com<br />
Contact: John Bushell or Andy Russell<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc is a specialist research<br />
company that focuses on sports goods & equipment research,<br />
sports participation analysis and research at sports venues<br />
where individuals play sport. With research going back to<br />
1984, the company has built long-term relationships working<br />
with many of the major tennis equipment manufacturers and<br />
events such as The Championships at Wimbledon.<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc is based in the <strong>UK</strong> and cooperates<br />
closely with Sports Marketing Surveys USA to<br />
provide research into tennis participation, equipment sales,<br />
event equipment usage, retailer attitudes, and tennis-player<br />
lifestyle research on a global basis.<br />
Sports Marketing Surveys Inc provides our clients with real<br />
insight and understanding on how tennis and sport impacts<br />
on a person’s life to help them make better business decisions<br />
and improve their profits.<br />
Contact us to find out how we can help you achieve your<br />
tennis targets including:<br />
- European <strong>Tennis</strong> participation & lifestyle reports<br />
- European Speciality <strong>Tennis</strong> Retail analysis<br />
- European Market Shipment reports<br />
- <strong>Tennis</strong> Consumer studies<br />
- <strong>Tennis</strong> brand image consultancy<br />
Services Provided: Sports market research services including:<br />
- Syndicated research<br />
- Bespoke studies & tailor-made research<br />
- <strong>Tennis</strong> & Sport publications and consultancy<br />
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Sportsequip.co.uk<br />
Boyd Sport & Play Limited trading as<br />
sportsequip.co.uk<br />
The Manor, Tur Langton,<br />
Leicestershire LE8 0PJ<br />
Phone 01858 545 789<br />
Fax 01858 545 890<br />
Email sales@sportsequip.co.uk<br />
Web www.sportsequip.co.uk<br />
Contact Robert Boyd<br />
sportsequip.co.uk is Britain’s leading online supplier of tennis<br />
products offering a wide choice of tennis nets and posts,<br />
winders & handles, net straps & adjusters, ball machines, ball<br />
baskets, tennis court accessories and court maintenance<br />
equipment for porous macadam, acrylic, grass, artificial<br />
grass, clay and shale courts.<br />
The company also supplies new court starter packs, moss<br />
killers and court maintenance products.<br />
Product Range: <strong>Tennis</strong> Posts, <strong>Tennis</strong> Nets, Winders &<br />
Handles, Net Straps & Adjusters, Ball Machines, Ball Baskets,<br />
New Court Starter Packs, Moss Killers, Court Maintenance.<br />
Sunbaba Systems Ltd<br />
Sunbaba House, Dullingham,<br />
Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9XA<br />
Phone: 01638 507684<br />
London Office:<br />
Suite 222, Legacy Business Centre, 2a Ruckholt Rd., Leyton,<br />
London E10 5NP<br />
Phone: 020 8988 9100<br />
Email: info@sunbaba.co.uk<br />
Web: www.sunbaba.co.uk <br />
Contact: Jan Booth Newmarket, Jonathan Booth, London<br />
Sunbaba is one of the <strong>UK</strong>’s leading suppliers of Austronet<br />
plain and over printed tennis windbreaks and Event Branding<br />
solutions. Our years of experience and a wide range of plain<br />
and printable materials including soft fabrics and rigid<br />
materials, enable us to deliver outstanding results.<br />
We don’t just sell branding, we offer a service with advice and<br />
support, right from the start of a project through to completion.<br />
Sunbaba are committed to sustainability in line with the<br />
principles of BS 8910 and ISO 14001 and we work closely<br />
with our suppliers and clients to minimise the environmental,<br />
social and economic impact of our products and, in turn, of<br />
the events where they are used.<br />
Product Range: Plain and Over printed <strong>Tennis</strong> Windbreaks, 14<br />
different Austronet fabric colours, 2 weights/air permeability.<br />
Banners and Event branding for <strong>Tennis</strong> Events and<br />
Tournaments.<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy<br />
Rosehill Park, Sutton, Surrey<br />
SM1 3HH<br />
Phone: 0208 641 6611<br />
Fax: 0208 641 9676
Email: info@suttontennisacademy.com<br />
Web: www.suttontennisacademy.com<br />
Contact: Jessica Weeks<br />
Sutton <strong>Tennis</strong> Academy was the country’s first indoor junior<br />
tennis centre. It opened in 1991 as a joint venture between<br />
London borough of Sutton and Junior <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres. 19<br />
years on, the centre has now become the <strong>UK</strong>’s leading tennis<br />
centre for the development of junior performance players.<br />
Whilst it is London’s premier facility the academy offers a<br />
flexible approach to meet the training and practice<br />
requirements of all ages and levels of player, including<br />
professional, full-time, and junior performance players as well<br />
as beginners. We also have adult coaching programmes and<br />
operate a number of evening squads for beginner,<br />
intermediate and advanced players.<br />
The Centre offers excellent facilities including 11 indoor<br />
acrylic, 8 clay and 5 outdoor acrylic courts, a luxury health<br />
and fitness suit, sports injury clinic, a relaxing sports lounge,<br />
indoor and outdoor viewing areas, a junior gym and<br />
function/conference facilities.<br />
TAB Services<br />
45 Signal Road, Grantham, NG31 9BL<br />
Telephone: 08456 434822<br />
E-mail: info@tabservices.co.uk<br />
Web: www.tabservices.co.uk<br />
Contact: Ian Beswick<br />
TAB Services – offering sales and marketing consultancy<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
Elmdene, Milton Road, Shipton-Under-Wychwood,<br />
Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire OX7 6BD<br />
Phone 0845 643 1173<br />
Email stephen@teddytennis.com<br />
Website www.teddytennis.com<br />
Contact Stephen Bean<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> is a new coaching method that inspires children<br />
aged 3 1 ⁄2 to 7 1 ⁄2 to play tennis and get active.<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> creatively connects to children through music,<br />
pictures, stories and teddy bear characters making learning<br />
the elementary skills of tennis exciting & fun. The lessons<br />
match a child’s development level with activities that cover a<br />
combination of movement, racket and ball skills. The<br />
programme works brilliantly as children just love playing<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong>.<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> is a ‘must have’ programme for any sports or<br />
leisure centre because it will bring in new business<br />
opportunities in ‘off-peak’ times as Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> busy periods<br />
are weekday mornings and afternoons, as well as at<br />
weekends. Once established, Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> will generate<br />
between £40,000 - £120,000 incremental revenue per year<br />
using existing in-house resources.<br />
Benefits offered: Enhances the family membership offering of<br />
the centre.<br />
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Provides new income source – fees from lessons (and<br />
membership)<br />
Provides new secondary income source (i.e. parents spend<br />
whilst waiting for classes to finish)<br />
Provides tertiary income source – resale of Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
equipment and merchandise<br />
Enhances perceived value of centre to families<br />
Optimises use of centre in off peak periods<br />
Sets up a feeder stream for other activities in the centre<br />
Can be delivered in a variety of locations inside and outside<br />
the centre<br />
Provides coaching staff with work in off peak periods<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> is a structured system with detailed lesson plans<br />
making the task of preparation and teaching straight forward<br />
Does not need a tennis court, just some space, indoors or<br />
outdoors.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>coachuk (The British <strong>Tennis</strong> Coaches’<br />
Association Ltd)<br />
Neville Lodge,<br />
Newbridge Crescent,<br />
Wolverhampton WV6 0LH<br />
Phone 01902 758 500<br />
Fax 01902 755287<br />
Email: enquiries@tenniscoachuk.co.uk<br />
Web: www.tenniscoachuk.com<br />
Contact: Sharon Lockley/Jo Dakin<br />
The British <strong>Tennis</strong> Coaches’ Association (BTCA) trading as<br />
tenniscoach<strong>UK</strong> is a professional body for tennis coaches and<br />
assistants in Britain.<br />
It is the only independent trade association for coaches in<br />
Britain, i.e. we do not provide coach certification services and<br />
so provide impartial advice to coaches and assistants<br />
irrespective of their qualification or who they are working for.<br />
tenniscoach<strong>UK</strong> has almost 3,000 members, including many of<br />
the leading coaches in Britain and represents coaches with a<br />
wide variety of qualifications and nationalities.<br />
tenniscoach<strong>UK</strong> is run by an National Board and a team of staff<br />
based at the head office in Wolverhampton.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Emporium Ltd<br />
400 Sherwood Forest Drive<br />
Delray Beach, Florida 33445, USA<br />
Phone: <strong>UK</strong> Mobile 07780 616 663<br />
Email: zanevans@hotmail.com<br />
Contact: Richard Evans, Managing Director<br />
The Grand Slam of shopping, <strong>Tennis</strong> Emporium brought<br />
together the merchandise of the ‘Big 7’ under one roof for the<br />
first time ever at the London Golf & <strong>Tennis</strong> Show 2010,<br />
offering branded goods from Wimbledon, Roland Garros,<br />
Australia and the US Open to purchase alongside those of the<br />
ATP World Tour and the International <strong>Tennis</strong> Federation.
Directory of <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Members<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>/Exhibition Design Consultancy<br />
PO Box 25746, Wimbledon, London SW20 0WG<br />
Phone: 0753 857 6470<br />
Contact: Irené Rhys Evans<br />
Phone: 07771690425<br />
Email: info@advintagesports.co.uk<br />
Web: www.advintagesports.co.uk<br />
Enhance the appearance of your exhibition stand or venue.<br />
Irené Rhys Evans has had 12 years’ experience designing<br />
exhibition stands, from small marquees to large exhibition<br />
halls, including the National Exhibit at the NEC. Her<br />
speciality is tennis although she has included golf in Atlanta<br />
GA and this will be her 10th year at the US Open New York.<br />
The aim and skill is to improve the appearance of a trade<br />
stand from an artistic point of view, to better attract and<br />
interest prospective clients to the exhibitor’s goods or services.<br />
If desired, as part of the Robert Fuller group, AdVintage<br />
Sports, she has access to modern and vintage art, antiques<br />
and decorative items to enhance the overall look, whether it is<br />
a small booth or a large reception area.<br />
Every client’s needs are different and unique.<br />
Tenlink<br />
48 Braeside, Beckenham,<br />
Kent BR3 1SU<br />
Phone: 020 8249 3366<br />
Email: tenlink@ntlworld.com<br />
Contact: Barbara Wancke<br />
With over 35 years working as an administrator in the tennis<br />
world, Barbara recently wound down her consultancy<br />
business, <strong>Tennis</strong> Interlink Ltd, but is still available for special<br />
projects.<br />
A former ITF Director of Women’s <strong>Tennis</strong>, during her career<br />
she has also held posts at Dunlop Sports Co Ltd and IMG<br />
before branching out on her own. She currently is the<br />
Executive Vice President of the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> and remains MD of<br />
Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire Network<br />
115 Loomis<br />
West Hartford, CT 06107 USA<br />
Mobile: +1-212-844-9274<br />
Email: lhoran@tenniswire.org<br />
Web: www.<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire.org,<br />
www.WorkIn<strong>Tennis</strong>.com<br />
Contact: Liza Horan<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire Network consists of two websites, an email<br />
database and social media efforts to inform international<br />
industry stakeholders, media and enthusiasts about tennis<br />
products, services, people and news in the sport. Brands<br />
including Wilson, HEAD/Penn, Prince, USPTA and USTA<br />
Eastern use the super-targeted online platform to gain<br />
visibility in the marketplace by distributing press releases and<br />
more. Through a special partnership, <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> members qualify<br />
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for special rates for <strong>Tennis</strong>Wire “Newsmaker” plans (details<br />
on www.tiauk.org).<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire.org provides “industry news from the sources”<br />
through a searchable database of press releases and company<br />
profiles, plus exclusive Q&A columns with tennis sponsors,<br />
leaders and personalities.<br />
WorkIn<strong>Tennis</strong>.com is a career center with employer profiles,<br />
candidate resumes, job listings, the “I Love My Job!” column,<br />
and a column (blog.WorkIn<strong>Tennis</strong>.com) written by the next<br />
generation of tennis industry insiders.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire Bulletin is a monthly email newsletter providing<br />
news, features, research and opportunities for those who work<br />
in the sport or are consumed by it as a fan or player. The<br />
focus is tennis’ growth through business and recreational<br />
participation.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire Media Alert is a weekly email newsletter to 600+<br />
verified journalists and editors who cover tennis and sports.<br />
Each Monday it carries top headlines from <strong>Tennis</strong>Wire<br />
“Newsmakers,” media event details, story ideas and more.<br />
Twitter.com/<strong>Tennis</strong>Wire is a stream of postings on news and<br />
items of interest for those covering, watching or working in<br />
the game.<br />
Facebook: Staying connected to you and your audience of<br />
industry insiders, media and tennis enthusiasts.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon<br />
112 Arthur Road, Wimbledon Park,<br />
London SW19 8AA<br />
Phone: 020 8715 8866<br />
Fax 020 8715 8877<br />
Email tennis@thetennisgallery.co.uk<br />
Web www.thetennisgallery.co.uk<br />
Contact: Richard Jones<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery Wimbledon is a retail shop and online<br />
trader specialising in tennis images, books, magazines,<br />
ephemera, video and audio from all over the world. The<br />
gallery has a unique archive covering more than 130 years of<br />
tennis history. This is used in the design and publication of<br />
greeting cards, prints and gifts, and in the provision of<br />
professional services to print and online media, TV and the<br />
film industry. The gallery designs and builds special tennis<br />
exhibitions for corporate clients worldwide, and publishes a<br />
free magazine ‘What’s New in <strong>Tennis</strong>’ in May and November<br />
each year. The gallery is situated right next to Wimbledon<br />
Park station on the London Underground District Line, less<br />
than 20 minutes walk from the All England Club. Opening<br />
hours are 10am to 5pm all year round, with extended hours<br />
during Wimbledon Championships fortnight.<br />
Product Range: <strong>Tennis</strong> books, DVDs, art, photographs, player<br />
and tournament posters, calendars, diaries, greeting cards,<br />
Christmas cards, notecards, postcards, jewellery and gifts.<br />
Services Provided: We organise tennis exhibitions for<br />
corporate clients, and provide wall decoration for tennis<br />
clubs. We also provide media research services, and props<br />
for films and TV.
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Limited<br />
PO Box 151,<br />
Sutton SM1 2WN<br />
Phone: 08712 779 819<br />
Fax: 07092 272 727<br />
Email: david@tennisuk.net<br />
Website: www.tennisuk.net<br />
Contact: David Fuchs<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Services <strong>UK</strong> Limited is an independent company<br />
dedicated to providing competitive tennis opportunities for<br />
adults and junior players.<br />
Working in partnership with a number of clubs, tennis centres<br />
and LTA county offices, TS<strong>UK</strong> presents “a professional<br />
approach to the amateur game”. The company’s founder is<br />
David Fuchs who, since 1990 has organised, managed and<br />
promoted tennis competitions at local, regional, national and<br />
international level. David is also a qualified referee and<br />
TS<strong>UK</strong>’s full-time activities are approved by The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Association.<br />
The world of competitive tennis can be confusing, particularly<br />
to players who are new to the game. TS<strong>UK</strong>’s aim is to provide<br />
clear information and make competitions easy to enter with a<br />
strong emphasis on ensuring that their events are organised<br />
and managed to a high standard, delivering a quality tennis<br />
experience for those playing for fun or in pursuit of a full-time<br />
career in tennis.<br />
We offer a tailored service to tennis clubs and centres wishing<br />
to develop competitions and can also provide administrative,<br />
secretarial and consultancy services to existing events and<br />
tournaments.<br />
TS<strong>UK</strong> was the first organisation to offer players online<br />
tournament entry facilities and our website is currently used<br />
by more than 5,000 players with over 30 clubs and centres<br />
making use of our services to help run their competitions<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Today Ltd<br />
Cedar Lodge, Howe Road,<br />
Watlington, Oxfordshire, OX49 5ER<br />
Phone 01491 612042<br />
e-mail: info@tennis-today.net<br />
web: www.tennis-today.net<br />
Publishers of tennis literature and tennis related websites,<br />
www.tennis-today.net www.tennisclubnews.co.uk and<br />
www.juniortennisgb.co.uk<br />
Additional services include setting up of websites, public<br />
relations and promotions.<br />
Thornton Sports<br />
Metcalf Drive<br />
Altham Industrial Estate, Altham<br />
Lancashire. BB5 5TU<br />
Phone: 01282 777 345<br />
Email: info@thorntonsports.co.uk<br />
Web: www.thorntonsports.co.uk<br />
Contact: Colin Wright<br />
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Thornton Sports specialise in the design, build, installation,<br />
maintenance and renovation of tennis courts, with over 30<br />
years experience of working with Clubs, Private Clients,<br />
Schools & Hotels.<br />
Surface types offered include painted porous macadam,<br />
acrylic and our in-house <strong>UK</strong> manufactured synthetic grass,<br />
designed to the highest performance and quality standards.<br />
All of our surfaces meet LTA requirements and can be<br />
designed to suit different levels of ability and budgets.<br />
<strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Insurance<br />
Managed for the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> by Trident Insurance<br />
Advanced House,<br />
374-376 High Road, Ilford,<br />
Essex 1G1 1QP<br />
Phone: 0800 012 1899<br />
Fax: 020 8911 1444<br />
Email: enquiries@tiauk-insurance.co.uk<br />
<strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Insurance was set up to offer members, together with<br />
their family and friends, insurance cover for their businesses<br />
as well as for their domestic needs.<br />
A valuable and practical benefit to members when reviewing<br />
all their insurance needs, the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Insurance facility is also<br />
extended to readers of The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong>.<br />
Advanced Insurance Centres Limited (trading as Trident) and<br />
Tasker & Partners Limited are two independent Brokers who<br />
have access to a panel of Insurers and Underwriting<br />
Syndicates, which comparison sites cannot possibly compete<br />
with. Why? Because they know their clients value<br />
independence as it gives unrivalled access to competitive<br />
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quotations.<br />
Neither firm has any obligation to any Insurer unless that<br />
Insurer offers the most competitive rates and cover.<br />
Both brokers are Authorised and Regulated by the Financial<br />
Services Authority; they are members of the Financial<br />
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There are no offshore call centres and the staff are thoroughly<br />
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delivery and a user-friendly and understandable consultation<br />
to meet all your Insurance needs.<br />
Call Freephone 0800 012 1899 and quote “The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong><br />
<strong>2011</strong>” for your free insurance consultation.<br />
TrioPlus <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Suite 107, Capital Business Centre,<br />
22 Carlton Road, South Croydon,<br />
CR2 0BS<br />
Tel: 020 8398 3232<br />
Email: psandilands@trioplusonline.co.uk<br />
Web: www.trioplusonline.co.uk<br />
Contact: Phillip Sandilands<br />
TrioPlus <strong>Tennis</strong> is the <strong>UK</strong>’s market leader for tennis<br />
consultancy services, with over 25 years of tennis experience
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in the business planning, design and procurement of clubs<br />
and tennis venues. Services include club audits and<br />
operations; facility design and procurement; club start-ups,<br />
mergers and relocations; feasibility studies; funding<br />
applications; strategic planning; benchmarking and research;<br />
development and training and tennis road shows. We are<br />
uniquely qualified and positioned in the industry, bringing<br />
objective expertise and solutions that add value to the client,<br />
drawing on the extensive experience of Phillip Sandilands<br />
(former LTA Director of National Facilities), his co-Directors<br />
and Associates.<br />
Volkl <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>UK</strong> & Ireland<br />
Volkl tennis is now back in the <strong>UK</strong><br />
market. The success found today at<br />
Volkl <strong>Tennis</strong> is based upon a rich heritage, years of<br />
experience and know-how. Today’s modern technologies and<br />
cutting-edge innovations together blend form and<br />
functionality assuring today’s tennis player the highest<br />
standard of quality and performance. Real tennis technologies<br />
for real tennis players.<br />
Will To Win Ltd<br />
Head Office: Regents Park <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre,<br />
York Bridge, Inner Circle, London,<br />
NW1 4NU<br />
Phone 020 7224 1625<br />
Email: info@willtowin.co.uk<br />
Web: www.willtowin.co.uk<br />
Contact: Steve Riley<br />
Construction of Public <strong>Tennis</strong> Centres & Public Facility<br />
Management. Development of Programmes and Community<br />
Club Links. Pro Shop in all Sites<br />
Over 30 Coaches and 50 tennis courts – <strong>UK</strong> leader in Private<br />
Product Range: Coaching, Courts, Rackets, Footwear,<br />
Holidays.<br />
Services Provided: Facility Development and Management.<br />
To ensure your entry appears<br />
in the 2012 edition of<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong><br />
please ring<br />
01737 831707<br />
for membership details<br />
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Setting standards over the decades<br />
Those of you at the opening on October 15, 1982, of<br />
the David Lloyd Slazenger Racquet Club in Heston<br />
1982 will recollect that the then Minister for Sport, Neil<br />
Macfaralane, did the honors.<br />
“This centre will help cater<br />
for the increase in leisure<br />
demand which we will see<br />
over the next generation,”<br />
the Minister said. “It is<br />
desperately needed and<br />
represents a new<br />
dimension for success in<br />
British tennis.”<br />
Little did he know that over<br />
David Lloyd, the<br />
entrepreneur who is<br />
acknowledged as the man<br />
who established indoor<br />
tennis centres.<br />
Picture David Musgrove.<br />
the next decades, the seed<br />
sown just off the M4 near<br />
Heathrow, in Southall Lane,<br />
Hounslow would<br />
subsequently establish<br />
itself as the biggest sports and leisure company in the<br />
country, if not Europe.<br />
David Lloyd will be remembered for both his bulldog<br />
spirit as a player, and his pioneering spirit as an<br />
entrepreneur with many believing that indoor tennis<br />
facilities would not have taken root had it not been for<br />
his efforts, despite the fact that Coventry was the first<br />
to open earlier that year, with Telford following the next.<br />
Over the next decade or so, both those centres have<br />
veered away to chase other business opportunities<br />
having found the going tough in tennis while Lloyd<br />
expanded.<br />
Having established his successful template at Heston,<br />
similar clubs followed in 1992 at Bushey, Chigwell and<br />
Enfield. That year really marks the start of the ‘empire’,<br />
and with that growth the need for investment capital<br />
became necessary and met by the company going<br />
public on the stock exchange. That flotation in 1993<br />
established the company’s market value at £60 million<br />
and, in 1995, attracted the interest of Whitbread who<br />
successfully took the company over at a cost of £201<br />
million. At the time the company consisted of 18 clubs<br />
and on the take-over, David Lloyd was retained as<br />
managing director of the division, a post he held for<br />
just one year.
Importantly, the take-over included the use of the David<br />
Lloyd name which over the coming years, was to prove<br />
a major bone of contention for the former player,<br />
entrepreneur and Davis Cup captain but one he had to<br />
swallow as he watched the company quickly expanded.<br />
Unable to operate under his own name, or fronting a<br />
competitive operation to Whitbread’s, David’s son,<br />
Scott set up Next Generation Clubs in 1996. Under<br />
Scott’s leadership the company subsequently opened a<br />
series of clubs in the <strong>UK</strong> and Australia, filling a gap by<br />
going more up-market in their approach than their now<br />
established competitors.<br />
The next step was to regain for the group the family<br />
name but that didn’t come about for a few years.<br />
Next Generation and its 18 Clubs with some 100,000<br />
members, were subsequently acquired by London &<br />
Regional Group Holdings Ltd in 2006 which then<br />
provided the Company with the financial backing a<br />
year later (June 2007) to successfully acquire from<br />
Whitbreads, the 68 David Lloyd Leisure clubs with<br />
their 370,000 members for an alleged £925 million, a<br />
move which established, in membership terms, the<br />
biggest health and fitness operator in the <strong>UK</strong>.<br />
Scott Lloyd was now in<br />
charge of 76 clubs in the<br />
<strong>UK</strong> and Ireland, as well as<br />
ten sites across Belgium,<br />
Spain and Holland, all<br />
being serviced by some<br />
6,000 staff.<br />
David Lloyd’s son, Scott,<br />
picked up the baton and<br />
now controls the biggest<br />
sports and leisure<br />
operation in this country<br />
if not Europe.<br />
Picture Leisureweek.com<br />
At the time, without any<br />
public admission of the<br />
delight at regaining control<br />
of the family legacy, Scott<br />
Lloyd said: “We are pleased<br />
to have completed the<br />
acquisition of David Lloyd Leisure, creating the market<br />
leader in the Health and Fitness sector in the <strong>UK</strong>. This<br />
is the start of an exciting new future for both David<br />
Lloyd Leisure and Next Generation Clubs and I am<br />
confident we have a great team in place that will further<br />
enhance our leading position in the sports, health and<br />
fitness markets.”<br />
With their Head Office in Hatfield in what is known as<br />
‘The Hangar’, a reference to its previous use by Hawker<br />
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The imposing headquarters in Hatfield known as ‘The Hangar’.<br />
Picture <strong>Tennis</strong> Today<br />
Siddeley Aviation before the site was re-developed,<br />
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd operates four brand names,<br />
David Lloyd Clubs, Next Generation Clubs, Amida<br />
Clubs and Harbour Clubs. In addition, the company<br />
operates a golf course on the outskirts of Glasgow<br />
(Deaconsbank).<br />
All four brands have a strong reputation in the sector<br />
and have won many industry awards and accolades.<br />
The clubs also have a high profile in their local<br />
communities and are renowned for delivering a quality<br />
leisure experience.<br />
Currently the organization has 89 Health, Rackets and<br />
Fitness clubs (79 in the <strong>UK</strong> and 10 in mainland<br />
Europe/Ireland) with approximately 6,500 employed<br />
staff, which include 750 health and fitness experts and<br />
over 350 tennis professionals overseeing some 10,000<br />
programmed activities each week.<br />
In all they look after over 450,000 members who enjoy<br />
a huge range of facilities, from aerobics to boxing to<br />
tennis.<br />
And when it comes to equipment, the numbers are<br />
equally impressive including some 12,500 exercise<br />
machines across all the clubs, over 125 indoor and<br />
outdoor swimming pools, 700 indoor and outdoor<br />
tennis courts, 125 badminton and 100 squash courts<br />
plus numerous saunas, steam rooms, jacuzzis, hair<br />
and beauty salons.<br />
The words expressed by the Sports Minister back in<br />
1982 have certainly proved true and it isn’t surprising<br />
that the Lloyd family name remains at the forefront of<br />
the sports and leisure industry virtually three decades<br />
later. David Lloyd may have started it, but it is his son<br />
Scott Lloyd who made the ultimate dream come true.
Directory of TRS Certified Stringers<br />
Directory of TRS Stringers<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> Racquet Specialist Scheme is<br />
an education and certification programme<br />
for retailers and associated teaching pros<br />
benefitting the buying public.<br />
TRS Certified Stringers are the recognised experts in this field<br />
and a real asset to British tennis.<br />
Consumers are able to seek out TRS Certified Stringers from<br />
the directory below as well as on the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> website at<br />
www.tiauk.org in the certain knowledge that they will receive the<br />
best available advice and service on their tennis racket<br />
equipment.<br />
Workshops conducted by the European Racquet Stringers<br />
Association teach the best methods of modern racket stringing<br />
and servicing and participants are subsequently tested by<br />
Master Racquet Technicians using the ERSA certification<br />
system that is the universally accepted standard around the<br />
world.<br />
This results in better advice and service for the consumer and<br />
ensures greater knowledge in tennis equipment and on-going<br />
maintenance costs is available through fully accredited<br />
specialist sports retailers and stringers.<br />
In all, a better deal for the British tennis enthusiast and the<br />
sports retailer, whether located in a shop or a club.<br />
Details on up-and-coming Workshops are available on<br />
www.tiauk.org and www.ersa-stringers.com .<br />
The directory lists qualified stringers according to the<br />
following criteria:<br />
TRS Master – Master Racquet Technician, the highest<br />
qualification in the field that enables holders of this certificate<br />
to string player rackets on the ATP and WTA Tours, to teach and<br />
to test apprentice stringers.<br />
TRS Certified Stringer – Expert stringers with up-to-date<br />
knowledge on modern methods and technologies<br />
ERSA Stringer – Standard stringers working towards TRS<br />
certification<br />
Apprentice – Learners of the trade working towards basic<br />
ERSA certification<br />
Mauguin Benoit ERSA Stringer<br />
20 Rue Saint-Denis 95160 Montmorency France<br />
Tel: 00-33-139894338<br />
Email: benoitmaugin@wanadoo.fr<br />
Ian Bicknell ERSA Stringer<br />
Letchworth <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre<br />
Muddy Lane, Letchworth Herts SG6 3TB<br />
Email: ianbicknell@aol.com<br />
Peter Blance ERSA Stringer<br />
13 Trenchknowe, Edinburgh EH10 7HL<br />
Email: peter.blance@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
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Stephen Bone ERSA Stringer<br />
Batchwood <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre<br />
Batchwood Drive, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 5AX<br />
Len Borrett ERSA Stringer<br />
9 Moorlands Close, Brockenhurst, Hampshire SO42 7QS<br />
Pete Butcher TRS Certified Stringer<br />
15 The Fairway, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 3DZ<br />
Tel: 01923 828102<br />
Email: petebutcher4@googlemail.com<br />
Duncan Callan ERSA Stringer<br />
137 Osbourne Road North, Porthswood, Southampton<br />
Hampshire SO17 2FH<br />
Email: duncan@callansports.co.uk<br />
Sam Chan TRS Master<br />
10 Hartshill Close, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB10 9LH<br />
Email: samchan@protourstringer.co.uk<br />
Peter Cloud ERSA Stringer<br />
5 Falkenham Road, Kirton, Suffolk IP10 0NP<br />
Tel: 01394448348<br />
Email: peter@pcemail.co.uk<br />
Len Cooper ERSA Stringer<br />
Crescent LTC<br />
100 Church Way, Pagham, Sussex PO21 4QX<br />
Adam Cornick ERSA Stringer<br />
69 Houghton Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU5 5AB<br />
Email: adamgoes@hotmail.com<br />
Roger Dalton TRS Master<br />
Benfleet Cottage, Oakshade Road, Oxshott, Surrey KT22 0LF<br />
Tel: 01372 842 285<br />
Email: r.dalton@tiscali.co.uk<br />
Nigel Deane ERSA Stringer<br />
Bath Street, Cheddar, Somerset BS27 3AA<br />
Email: nigel@deanesports.co.uk<br />
Keith England TRS Certified Stringer<br />
47 Morley Avenue, Wood Green, London N22 6LY<br />
Tel: 02088812362<br />
Email: keithng.nakmen3@talktalk.net<br />
Ben Fawcett ERSA Stringer<br />
Sutton, Surrey<br />
Tel: 02086421600<br />
Email: df003v3926@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
Adam Field ERSA Stringer<br />
33 Willingdon Drive, Eastbourne, Sussex BN22 0BT<br />
Email: adamstennis@tiscali.co.uk
Michael Fillingham ERSA Stringer<br />
11A Cockshutt Avenue, Beauchief, Sheffield, Yorks S8 7DU<br />
Tel: 01142748439<br />
Email: mkf@talktalk.net<br />
Thomas Freeman ERSA Stringer<br />
22 beauchamp Road, East Mosely, Surrey KT8 0PA<br />
Email: toftheboff@hotmail.com<br />
Tim Freer ERSA Stringer<br />
38 The Paddock, Dawlish, Devon EX7 0ET<br />
Email: tim.freer@btinternet.com<br />
Arzu Gabb ERSA Stringer<br />
Ashmanor School, Manor Road, Tongham<br />
North Guilford, Surrey GU12 6QH<br />
Email: arzugabb@yahoo.com<br />
Viv Ganz ERSA Stringer<br />
45 Summerland Avenue, Newton, Swansea<br />
West Glamorgan SA3 4RX<br />
Dave Gartside ERSA Stringer<br />
34 Compton Way, Abergele, Conwy, Wales LL22 7BL<br />
Email: david@northwalesrestrings.co.uk<br />
Israel Gefen ERSA Stringer<br />
6 Okehampton Road, Kensal Rise, London NW10 3ED<br />
Email: sales@gefensports.co.uk<br />
Rubin Gomez ERSA Stringer<br />
5 Oakwood Drive, Gowerton, Swansea SA4 3DJ<br />
Tel:01792873764<br />
Mark and Karen Goodman TRS Master<br />
Tel: 01223 241956<br />
Email: info@topspintennis.co.uk<br />
Mark Goodman TRS Master<br />
Cambridge Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Club<br />
Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0EQ<br />
Tel: 01223 365883<br />
info@topspintennis.co.uk<br />
Karen Goodman TRS Master<br />
Huntingdon <strong>Tennis</strong> Club, St Peters Road<br />
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE29 7DS<br />
Tel: 01223 241956<br />
Email: info@topspintennis.co.uk<br />
Mark Goodman TRS Master<br />
Premier Racquets & Fitness<br />
Ringstead Road, Sedgeford, Norfolk PE36 5NQ<br />
Tel: 01223 241956<br />
Email: info@topspintennis.co.uk<br />
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Karen Goodman TRS Master<br />
Hills Road Sports and <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre<br />
Purbeck Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire PE29 7DS<br />
Tel: 01223 241956<br />
Email: info@topspintennis.co.uk<br />
Robert Grainger ERSA Stringer<br />
28 Robin Close, Woodland Rise, Stowmarket,<br />
Suffolk IP14 5NG<br />
Steven Graves ERSA Stringer<br />
51 Parc Godrevy, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 1TY<br />
Tel: 07796413548<br />
Email: steve@gravitystringing.co.uk<br />
David R Hall TRS Certified Stringer<br />
5 Sheriffs Way, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO15 4ET<br />
Tel: 01255425943/Mobile: 07810224429<br />
Email: david@racketstringing.biz<br />
Mike Harding TRS Certified Stringer<br />
52 Oaklands Avenue, West Wickham, Kent BR4 9LF<br />
Tel: 07956406699<br />
Email: mikeharding@fsmail.net<br />
Roger Henry TRS Master<br />
17 Old Court Manor, Clougmills, Antrim BT44 9LW<br />
Tel: 07989480650<br />
Email: roger@racketsolutions.com<br />
Richard Holmes TRS Master<br />
16 Mandarin Place, Grove, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 0QH<br />
Tel: 01253 762 368<br />
Email:richardholmes704@hotmail.com<br />
Tom Hornett ERSA Stringer<br />
22 Frith Wood Lane, Billericay, Essex CM12 9PJ<br />
Tel: 01277 650 580<br />
Email: a.hornett@btinternet.com<br />
Shirley Houghton TRS Certified Stringer<br />
c/o David Lloyd Leisure, Pride Park,<br />
Derby, Derbyshire DE3 0DQ<br />
Tel: 01332 205 202<br />
Email: carolyn.coxon@ntlworld.com<br />
David Howe ERSA Stringer<br />
191 Grove Lane, Hale, Cheshire WA15 8LU<br />
Email: david.howe24@btinternet.com<br />
Ian Hoy ERSA Stringer<br />
189 Hadley Road, Leegomery, Telford, Shropshire TF1 6QF<br />
Email: ian@string-shop.co.uk<br />
Andy Huffer ERSA Stringer<br />
38 Market Street, Fordham, Ely, Cabus, Lancashire CB7 5LQ<br />
Email: andy.huffer@dial.pipex.com
Directory of TRS Certified Stringers<br />
Mark Hyde ERSA Stringer<br />
28 Colne Road, Barnoldswick, Lancashire BB18 5QU<br />
Email: suemark@hyde570.fsnet.co.uk<br />
Neville Hyde ERSA Stringer<br />
9 Farndale Crescent, Darlington, Durham DL3 9AP<br />
Tel: 07968300204<br />
Email: nevillehyde@hotmail.com<br />
David Ince ERSA Stringer<br />
28 Bigwood Avenue, Hove, Sussex BN3 6FQ<br />
Giedrius Kabanuskas ERSA Stringer<br />
Ashmanor School, Manor Road, Tongham<br />
North Guildford, Surrey GU12 6QH<br />
Email: info@tennistogether.com<br />
Alan Kemp ERSA Stringer<br />
39 Copperfield Gardens, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4UB<br />
Email: lisa_reeves@tiscali.co.uk<br />
Peter La Broy ERSA Stringer<br />
7 Queen Street, Bud, Cornwall EX23 8AY<br />
Email: peterlabroy@aol.com<br />
Mark Lawrence ERSA Stringer<br />
Crest Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 1UA<br />
Email: mwl060560@aol.com<br />
Mark Lever ERSA Stringer<br />
Flat 1, Wentoworth,<br />
2 Crichel Mount Road, Poole, Dorset BH14 8LT<br />
Email: racqueteers@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Stewart Lister ERSA Stringer<br />
Basement Flat, 164 Upper Lewes Road,<br />
Brighton, Sussex BN2 3FB<br />
Tel: 01273 248 958<br />
Email: stewartlister@hotmail.co.uk<br />
John Little ERSA Stringer<br />
18 Leominster Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear SR2 9HG<br />
Email: pauline.little4@ntlworld.com<br />
Timothy Lockett ERSA Stringer<br />
47 Uttoxeter Road, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ST3 1NY<br />
Email: timothy@surtloch21.fsnet.co.uk<br />
Alistair Love ERSA Stringer<br />
170 Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent BR6 0DF<br />
Email: alistairtennis@btinternet.com<br />
Michael Lunt ERSA Stringer<br />
39 Swanpool Road, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 5AY<br />
Email: michaellunt3@hotmail.com<br />
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Lisa Lyddon ERSA Stringer<br />
Corfe Lodge Road, Broadstone, Dorset BH18 9NF<br />
Email: lisalyddon@sky.com<br />
Paul Manning ERSA Stringer<br />
Mayfield, The Street, Preston St Mary, Suffolk CO10 9NE<br />
Email: paul@sasonline.net<br />
Penny Marchant ERSA Stringer<br />
138 Sutton Park Road, Kidderminster,<br />
Worcestershire DY11 6JQ<br />
Email: marchy@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
Alistair Masterton ERSA Stringer<br />
Northwood, Middlesex HA6 1TG<br />
Tel: 07903766303<br />
Email: alastairmasterton@live.co.uk<br />
Tom Mayes TRS Certified Stringer<br />
100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ<br />
Email: tom.mayes@lta.org.uk<br />
Suzie Maynard-Mould TRS Certified Stringer<br />
Priory Sports, The Edgbaston Priory Club, Edgbaston<br />
Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2UZ<br />
Tel: 01214408752/07957305180<br />
Nick McCollin ERSA Stringer<br />
17 St Bartholomews, Monkston, Milton Keynes<br />
Buckinghamshire MK10 9FJ<br />
Email: nickmccollin@hotmail.com<br />
Rab McGill ERSA Stringer<br />
9 Craigcrook Park, Edinburgh<br />
Midlothian/Edinburghshire EH4 3PL<br />
Email: rab@rabjen.com<br />
Robert Metcalf ERSA Stringer<br />
Ashmanor School, Manor Road, Tongham<br />
North Guilford, Surrey GU12 6QH<br />
Email: info@tennistogether.com<br />
Nicholas Morris ERSA Stringer<br />
14 Langley Road, Merry Hill, Wolverhampton<br />
West Midlands WV3 7LH<br />
Tel: 01902 764 617 / 07811 119 608<br />
Email: nicko212@hotmail.com<br />
Maurice Mosdell ERSA Stringer<br />
20 Godiva Crescent, Bourne, Sussex PE10 9QU<br />
Email: MEMosdell@aol.com<br />
W D J Mould ERSA Stringer<br />
Sir Harry’s Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham<br />
West Midlands B15 2UL
Graham Moyle ERSA Stringer<br />
75 Baron Court, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 7ZF<br />
Email: graham.moyle1@btinternet.com<br />
David Munt TRS Master<br />
46 Heathfield, Loddon Vale, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 4PA<br />
Tel: 07841532878<br />
Email: david@racquets-mate.co.uk<br />
Lee Myers ERSA Stringer<br />
100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ<br />
Email: Lee.Myers@lta.org.uk<br />
Damian Neiras ERSA Stringer<br />
174 Clonemore Street, Southfields, London SW18 5HB<br />
Email: damianneiras@hotmail.com<br />
Paul Newman ERSA Stringer<br />
32 Vernier Crescent, Medbourne, Milton Keynes<br />
Buckinghamshire MK5 6FD<br />
Email: paul.newman72@btopenworld.com<br />
Amiko Ogawa TRS Certified Stringer<br />
Sycamores, Loxwood Road, Alfold, Surrey GU6 8HG<br />
Tel: 07963054846/01403753056<br />
Email: ami1968@hotmail.co.uk<br />
Ben Page TRS Certified Stringer<br />
47 College Drive, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 8SD<br />
Tel: 01895675876/07515334856<br />
Email: benpage@wintennis.com<br />
Stan Parry ERSA Stringer<br />
4 Harewood Gardens, Croyden, Surrey CR2 9BG<br />
Email: scmparry@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
Rachel Partington ERSA Stringer<br />
2 Leinster Avenue, East Sheen, London SW14 7JP<br />
Tel: 02088781300/07973173931<br />
Email: rachelpartington@hotmail.co.uk<br />
Pritesh Pattni ERSA Stringer<br />
136 Townley Gardens, Aston, Birmingham B6 6LR<br />
Email: priteshp1@btinternet.com<br />
Mike Perkins ERSA Stringer<br />
51 High Street, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE29 3AQ<br />
Tel: 01480454541<br />
Email: sportsandfashions@xln.co.uk<br />
Jamie Pethick TRS Certified Stringer<br />
218 Hurst Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 9AN<br />
Email: bathracketsolutions@hotmail.com<br />
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Liam Phillips ERSA Stringer<br />
Bradfield College, 48 Southend Road, Southend Bradfield<br />
Reading, Berkshire RG7 6AU<br />
Tel: 02824407828<br />
Email: liam-phillips@hotmail.co.uk<br />
Barrie Poole ERSA Stringer<br />
13 Gigmill Way, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 3HN<br />
Ed Pooley ERSA Stringer<br />
11 Belmont Close, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton<br />
Hampshire SO45 4NL<br />
Email: edd.pooley@talktalk.net<br />
Geraint Richards ERSA Stringer<br />
28 Clos Nant Ddu, Pontprennau, Cardiff CF23 8LF<br />
Email: gir861966@aol.com<br />
Gareth Richman ERSA Stringer<br />
24 Heathfield South, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 7SS<br />
Tel: 07932661317<br />
Email: gmrpix@mail.com<br />
Chuck Ridyard TRS Certified Stringer<br />
Woodcote, Orchard Lane, Ashford, Kent TN25 4DX<br />
Tel: 07713502652<br />
Email: chuckwrsl@aol.com<br />
Simon Robbins ERSA Stringer<br />
13 Gigmill Way, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 3HN<br />
Email: simon.robbins100@hotmail.com<br />
Evelyn Roberts ERSA Stringer<br />
82 Palmiera Road, Bexleyheath, Kent DA7 4UX<br />
Email: a1racquets@tiscali.co.uk<br />
Charlie Salter ERSA Stringer<br />
36 Bromyard Avenue, Acton, London W3 7AU<br />
Justin Sandever ERSA Stringer<br />
Flat 3, 11 McKinley Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH4 8AG<br />
Email: justinsandever@hotmail.com<br />
Voytek Sarama ERSA Stringer<br />
2 Dunlin Rise, Guildford, Surrey GU4 7DX<br />
Tel: 01483 536 998<br />
Email: vstennis@ntlworld.com<br />
Richard Seymour ERSA Stringer<br />
7 Woodcote Park Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7EY<br />
Email: seymoursports@btconnect.com
Directory of TRS Certified Stringers<br />
Mohammed Shafiq ERSA Stringer<br />
77 Harehills Road, Leeds, Yorkshire LS8 5HS<br />
Tel: 0113 235 0811<br />
Email: racketsports786@hotmail.com<br />
Case Study 2<br />
Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust<br />
The Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust became<br />
involved with the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> in June 2009<br />
and is its official charity.<br />
Although the Trust had been in existence for<br />
sometime within the <strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation<br />
raising funds for the benefit of disabled<br />
people who play tennis, it became a charity<br />
in its own right at the beginning of 2010<br />
which necessitated a certain amount of rebranding<br />
and re-defining its profile.<br />
Through involvement with the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong>’s<br />
members, the Trust has produced new<br />
materials such as banners and displays from<br />
Sunbaba; t-shirts, caps and pin badges<br />
through Daniell Smith Ltd; tennis ball key<br />
rings from J Price (Bath) Ltd; prizes for its<br />
Celebrity Golf Challenge from Wilson and<br />
The Silver <strong>Tennis</strong> Collection (and engraving<br />
there too). The <strong>Tennis</strong> Gallery has featured<br />
the Trust’s advertisement in its “What’s New<br />
in <strong>Tennis</strong>” publication; the <strong>TIA</strong> has provided<br />
similar in <strong>Tennis</strong> Outlook plus mention and<br />
entry in The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong>, and presence at<br />
last year’s London Golf & <strong>Tennis</strong> Show.<br />
Prestige Promotions ran the silent auction at<br />
Wentworth during the aforementioned Golf<br />
Challenge last year, (a <strong>TIA</strong> Board Member<br />
also played in this annual fundraising event)<br />
and finally the <strong>TIA</strong>’s Treasurer has<br />
investigated charity partnerships on the<br />
Trust’s behalf.<br />
Being involved with the <strong>TIA</strong> has enabled the<br />
Trust to take advantage of the variety of<br />
products and services available through the<br />
membership and given more opportunity to<br />
raise its profile and develop new contacts.<br />
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Rajesh Sharma ERSA Stringer<br />
49 Woodhill Crescent, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 0LU<br />
Email: rajeshsharma@onetel.com<br />
Carolyn Simons-Coxon ERSA Stringer<br />
C/O David Lloyd Leisure, 98 Broadway, Pride Park Way<br />
Off Riverside Road, Derby, Derbyshire DE22 1BP<br />
Tel: 01332 205 202<br />
Email: carolsimons@aol.com<br />
Gavin Simpson ERSA Stringer<br />
Moseley Hall, Chelford Road, Knutsford. Cheshire WA16 8RB<br />
Email: gavinsimpson@supanet.com<br />
Brian Snapes ERSA Stringer<br />
17 Albany Park Road, Kingston, Surrey KT2 5SW<br />
Email: snapes@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
Roger Staple TRS Certified Stringer<br />
63 Holt Wood Avenue, Aylesford, Kent ME20 7QQ<br />
Tel: 01622 718 235/ 07941430020<br />
Email: roger.staple@softpres.org<br />
Avril Steele ERSA Stringer<br />
Sportskit, Unit 3, The Meadow Centre, Stowmarket<br />
Suffolk IP14 1DE<br />
Email: info@dale-sport.co.uk<br />
Dave Stepney ERSA Stringer<br />
The Manor Prep School, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 6NL<br />
Tel: 01235522737<br />
Email: dave.stepney@o2.co.uk<br />
Trevor Sturrock ERSA Stringer<br />
The Cottage, Church Road, Wareham<br />
Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE33 9AP<br />
Email: tc.sturrock@btinternet.com<br />
Jeremy Taylor ERSA Stringer<br />
5 Lucas Close, Yately, Hampshire GU46 6JD<br />
Tel: 0118644600<br />
Email: keith_pop@hotmail.com<br />
Thomas Therrien TRS Certified Stringer<br />
Proteam <strong>Tennis</strong>, Northfields, Bath BA1 5TN<br />
Tel: 01225852274/07973672693<br />
Email: tom@proteam-tennis.co.uk<br />
Ollie Toms ERSA Stringer<br />
East Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1NB<br />
Email: ollie004@aol.com<br />
John Trickey ERSA Stringer<br />
11 Cramer Street, Stafford, Staffordshire ST17 4BX<br />
Email: stafford.schooloftennis@ntlworld.com
Colin Triplow TRS Master<br />
73 Caling Croft, New Ash Green, Kent DA3 8PY<br />
Email: colin@colinthestringer.com<br />
Dawn Vaughan ERSA Stringer<br />
Fir Tree Cottage, Tilford Street, Tilford, Surrey GU10 2BN<br />
Email: dawnyvaughan@aol.com<br />
David Wallis ERSA Stringer<br />
Marlet House, Black Lane, Ampleforth, York<br />
Yorkshire YO62 4DE<br />
Jim Warner TRS Certified Stringer<br />
27 Scott Drive, Newport Pagnell<br />
Buckinghamshire MK16 8PW<br />
Tel: 01908 618 377<br />
Charmaire Webb ERSA Stringer<br />
Flat 7, Seaview Court, Poole, Hampshire PO12 2UD<br />
Darren Whithey ERSA Stringer<br />
The Nook, 101 Chalkshire Road, Butlers Cross<br />
Buckinghamshire HP17 0TJ<br />
Email: darren.squash@btopenworld.com<br />
Pete Wilcox ERSA Stringer<br />
Thorfinns, Rackenford, Tiverton, Devon EX16 8ER<br />
Email: petewill31@hotmail.com<br />
Kevin Williams TRS Certified Stringer<br />
The Sqaure, Wickham, Fareham<br />
Hampshire PO17 5JT<br />
Tel: 01329 833833<br />
Email: info@jtsports.co.uk<br />
Tim Willis ERSA Stringer<br />
27 Bunting Close, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6BU<br />
Email: tim.willis27@virgin.net<br />
Gemma Wiltshire ERSA Stringer<br />
21 Lawdy Link, Upper Hale, Farnham,<br />
Surrey GU9 0BS<br />
Email: headgem@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Lee Wolvey ERSA Stringer<br />
5 Ellington Drive, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 4EZ<br />
Email: lee.wolvey@virgin.net<br />
Geoff Woodcock ERSA Stringer<br />
284 Shinfield Road, Reading, Berkshire RG2 8EY<br />
Email: geoff@racketshop.co.uk<br />
Alison Woods ERSA Stringer<br />
36 Belfast Road, Lisburn, Antrim BT27 4AS<br />
Email: alisonwoods@amserve.com<br />
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Errol Zafer ERSA Stringer<br />
184 Park Road, Crouch End, London N8 8JT<br />
Email: ZAFERVICT@aol.com<br />
Case Study 3<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
It was 2010 that the <strong>TIA</strong> provided the big<br />
breakthrough for Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> as Stephen<br />
Bean explained: “We were attending the<br />
<strong>TIA</strong>’s annual general meeting which<br />
happened to be at Wimbledon on the very<br />
day Her Majesty the Queen was visiting the<br />
tournament. But so compelling was the<br />
meeting that we actually missed ‘the walk<br />
past!’<br />
“Once the meeting had closed the <strong>TIA</strong><br />
delegation retired for some refreshments and<br />
it was here that we ‘networked’ with Robert<br />
and Irene Fuller, owners of the Silver <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Collection.<br />
“Robert and Irene were fascinated by the<br />
Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> story and suggested that it<br />
would be very well received in the USA,<br />
where they do most of their business. The<br />
end result of our networking encounter with<br />
the Fullers was that they put Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
in touch with Patricia Jensen, a renowned<br />
US based tennis marketer.<br />
“We subsequently arranged to meet with<br />
Patricia at the US Open where she was<br />
particularly keen for us to attend the Arthur<br />
Ash Kid’s Day. What an amazing event that<br />
is, tens of thousands of kids descend on<br />
Flushing Meadows to watch and to play<br />
tennis games and exercises. An idea for the<br />
LTA and Wimbledon perhaps!”<br />
Stephen concluded: “Joining the <strong>TIA</strong> has<br />
proved to be instrumental in the<br />
development of Teddy <strong>Tennis</strong> thanks to the<br />
networking opportunities it provides. The<br />
ground pass to Wimbledon is also another<br />
significant benefit.”
History - The Olympics and Paralympics<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> at the Olympics remains a contentious subject<br />
and there are still many who believe the sport should<br />
never have been readopted back into the Games as<br />
professional players don’t fulfill the original Olympic<br />
ideals. However, slowly but surely, that view is<br />
diminishing.<br />
The Olympic Games started back in 1896 when Pierre de<br />
Coubertin announced plans to revive the ancient Olympic<br />
ideal and while tennis might not have been one of the ancient<br />
Greek sports, it was included as an event at the inaugural<br />
modern games.<br />
The story goes that John Boland, an Irish student at Oxford’s<br />
Christ College, was so enthused by a lecture given by his<br />
friend Thrasyvoalos Manaos on the subject of the Games rebirth,<br />
he decided to attend the event during his Easter<br />
holidays as he believed it would be a sporting milestone.<br />
He duly arrived in Athens only to find that his friend Manaos,<br />
now the secretary of the organizing committee, had entered<br />
him in the tennis competition notwithstanding the fact that he<br />
had no proper clothing or rackets for the purpose!<br />
Having borrowed the requisite clothing which included<br />
leather-soled shoes, and racket, he progressed through the<br />
‘field’ and emerged as the first Olympic tennis champion when<br />
he overcame his final opponent, Egyptian Dionysios<br />
Kasdaglis. He also captured the doubles gold as well.<br />
As a sport, tennis was only 22 years old following its launch<br />
in 1874, and still gaining in popularity so Boland’s victory<br />
115 years ago helped increase the profile of the sport and, as<br />
the years unrolled, some of the game’s greatest players have<br />
followed Boland’s name on that roll of honor.<br />
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As a tennis player he was never seen again but he went on to<br />
become a renowned barrister, politician and author.<br />
Four years later, in Paris 1900, the women were invited to take<br />
part and Charlotte “Chattie” Cooper, already a three time<br />
Wimbledon title holder, captured the Ladies competition and<br />
joined Boland as an inaugural champion.<br />
But then came the bad times and tennis parted company with<br />
the Olympic movement following the 1924 Games. The<br />
decision was the result of unsuitable facilities and the refusal<br />
of the IOC to accept a representative from the sport’s own<br />
governing body, the ILTF – which is now the ITF – onto its<br />
committee.<br />
The first signs of a reconciliation became apparent in 1968<br />
when an Exhibition and a Demonstration event was played in<br />
Mexico but it wasn’t until 1984, 60 years after tennis left the<br />
Olympic movement, that the signs of a full return became<br />
evident with a 21-and-under demonstration tournament<br />
staged in Los Angeles. It was a great success with capacity<br />
crowds turning out on a daily basis to witness the emergence<br />
of Steffi Graf and Stefan Edberg as overall winners.<br />
Four years later in Seoul 1988, tennis was fully reinstated as<br />
an official Olympic event and the Czech, Miloslav Mecir and<br />
Germany’s Steffi Graf became inaugural champions of the<br />
regeneration.<br />
Graf romped through the ladies’ field and defeated Gabriela<br />
Sabatini 6-3,6-3 to claim Gold and establish what was later to<br />
become known as the Golden Grand Slam for she also won all<br />
four majors in that year, a feat yet to be repeated by any other<br />
player, male or female.<br />
Since then the honors board have been filled with the names<br />
Tim Hernman & Neil Broad won Silver at the Atlanta Games in 1996 thereby securing Britain’s first tennis medal since the sport<br />
was reinstated at the Olympic Games. Picture Professional Sport.
of some of the great modern day players, namely: Jennifer<br />
Capriati and Mark Rosset (1992, Barcelona), Lindsay<br />
Davenport and Andre Agassi (1996, Atlanta), Venus Williams<br />
and Yevgeny Kafelnikov (2000, Sydney), Justine Henin-<br />
Hardenne and Nicolas Massu (2004, Athens) plus Rafael<br />
Nadal and Elena Dementieva, the 2008 Beijing winners from<br />
fields which included the likes of Roger Federer and Novak<br />
Djokovic and in the ladies Jelena Jankovic and the Williams<br />
sisters.<br />
The appeal of the Olympics title, or a Gold Medal, is its<br />
scarcity. During their careers, players only have, on average,<br />
two opportunities to climb that podium so as the years go by,<br />
the importance of the Games increases in both the players’<br />
and public’s mind.<br />
The Olympic flag.<br />
Picture courtesy of<br />
the IOC.<br />
Francesco Ricci Bitti, the President of<br />
the International <strong>Tennis</strong> Federation, the<br />
organization that runs tennis at the<br />
Games, declared in the opening pages<br />
of the photographic ‘Journey to Beijing’<br />
book: “The Olympics is now one of the<br />
most important events in tennis. At the<br />
same time, tennis has become one of<br />
the most important events in the<br />
Olympic Games.”<br />
In medal terms, Britain, with an overall<br />
tally of 41 (G-14; S-12; B-15), leads the way but they were all<br />
basically won before the long break when the country was a<br />
dominant force, the only one won garnered after the break<br />
being Tim Henman & Neil Broad’s doubles silver in Atlanta<br />
(1996). The USA and France trail with 32 and 19 respectively.<br />
More recently tennis at the Paralympics has grown<br />
dramatically since its introduction as a demonstration sport at<br />
the Seoul Olympics in 1988.<br />
The sport itself originated in the US in 1976 when a<br />
Californian, injured in a freestyle skiing accident, first hit a<br />
tennis ball from a wheelchair whilst he was in rehabilitation.<br />
Parks went on to work with others to promote and develop the<br />
sport across the country and last year became the first<br />
wheelchair tennis player to be inducted into the International<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Hall of Fame.<br />
In Europe, France and the Netherlands were the first<br />
recognised countries to actively promote the sport while a<br />
demonstration at Stoke Mandeville was instrumental in Peter<br />
Norfolk taking up the game.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> established itself as a full Paralympic sport in<br />
Barcelona (1992) when the inaugural champions, Randy<br />
Snow and Holland’s Monique van Den Bosch were crowned.<br />
She won both the women’s singles and women’s doubles gold<br />
medals to become the first in an uninterrupted line of Dutch<br />
women to become champions as they have dominated the<br />
sport in both disciplines at every Paralympics to date.<br />
The 2000 Sydney staging saw wheelchair tennis elevated to a<br />
new level, with 72 players from 24 countries taking part and<br />
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Peter Norfolk OBE, with his first gold<br />
medal (2004 Athens Paralympics) a<br />
feat he repeated at the Beijing Games<br />
in 2008. Picture <strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation.<br />
attracting record crowds. Local boy<br />
David Hall took the men’s title while<br />
the incomparable Esther Vergeer won<br />
the first two of her five Paralympic gold<br />
medals and remains unbeaten in three<br />
Paralympic singles competitions.<br />
The introduction of the quad division in 2004 (Athens) for<br />
players affected in three or more limbs, provided Peter<br />
Norfolk with his platform for tennis glory and he went on to<br />
win gold and then silver in the doubles where he partnered<br />
Mark Eccleston. Norfolk retained his singles title in Beijing<br />
(2008) and later was awarded an OBE for his contribution to<br />
the sport.<br />
With London currently gearing itself up to hosting the 2012<br />
Olympics, tennis fans will be able to see for themselves the<br />
contribution their sport makes to the Games, first at<br />
Wimbledon and then at a special tennis venue currently being<br />
completed in the East End for the Paralympics, near the<br />
Olympic Stadium itself.<br />
The SILVER TENNIS COLLECTION<br />
specialises in fine tennis jewellery<br />
and tennis giftware.<br />
English crystal with a tennis theme and<br />
their new, unique, tennis rugs form part<br />
of their Home Decor range, along with<br />
fine art and memorabilia.<br />
The company also specialises in supplying club<br />
Prizes and Trophies with a full engraving service.<br />
Please contact Robert Fuller or visit<br />
www.silvertenniscollection.com
<strong>Tennis</strong> Force<br />
The launch of <strong>Tennis</strong> Force, <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong>’s new<br />
advisory service<br />
How to survive the economic crisis is uppermost in<br />
everyone’s minds these days and <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> is mindful of<br />
the need to boost sales for member businesses to a<br />
tennis market obliged to spend wisely.<br />
As a natural extension of this <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong>, the <strong>TIA</strong> is<br />
launching <strong>Tennis</strong> Force in <strong>2011</strong>, a new advisory<br />
service through which to further promote the products<br />
and services of members to help offset decline and the<br />
main beneficiaries will be tennis clubs, or places to<br />
play as the LTA has rebranded them.<br />
Most places to play will receive a windfall in the form<br />
of the saving to be made from the change in LTA player<br />
affiliation fees to the club registration system, which<br />
starts this year and provides an opportunity to invest in<br />
facilities.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Force is a unique promotional programme<br />
through which appropriate products and services are<br />
offered at preferential rates, initially through a pilot<br />
scheme being rolled out from April via three regional<br />
associations within the <strong>UK</strong>.<br />
It complements and enhances services already<br />
available via the LTA and SAPCA and will provide an<br />
additional fast track to member companies.<br />
The focus is on improving the business of tennis at<br />
clubs through package offerings to include specialist<br />
insurance, consultancy advice on a variety of areas and<br />
cost-effective purchases of facility equipment.<br />
With the aim of helping develop better business<br />
practices that, in turn, provides more investment in our<br />
sport, <strong>Tennis</strong> Force has four interlinked services<br />
offering relevant products, services and advice:<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Resource Helpline: Providing member<br />
product and services information, statistics and<br />
research and ‘swap-shop’ opportunities<br />
Member Products: Particularly court equipment<br />
such as windbreaks, chairs, mini tennis and net<br />
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systems; Teaching and coaching aids such as ball<br />
baskets and ball machines; Notice boards;<br />
Administrative software and internet provision; and<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong>-themed gifts, prizes and trophies.<br />
Member Services: Access to insurance, tennis<br />
holidays, celebratory events, hotel bookings, charitable<br />
’Open Days’<br />
Member Consultancy: Delivering audits and ‘health<br />
checks’; Facility procurement; Long term planning and<br />
strategy; Sponsorship and marketing, grant, funding<br />
and Clubmark applications; plus workshops and <strong>TIA</strong><br />
‘Master Classes’.<br />
Participating administrators and committees will be<br />
offered an initial free consultation on the ways <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Force can help their particular situations in the full<br />
knowledge that all participant companies comply with<br />
the trade association’s Code of Practice.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Force is being headlined for the <strong>TIA</strong> by Board<br />
Member Phil Sandilands of TrioPlus, who is working<br />
closely with the regional bodies to develop a robust<br />
scheme that, if successful, can be rolled out nationally<br />
in 2012.<br />
“We are excited to be developing a direct and practical<br />
link between <strong>TIA</strong> members and customers who need<br />
their products and services,” says Phil Sandilands.<br />
“<strong>Tennis</strong> Force is a real opportunity to re-invest wisely<br />
in the infrastructure of our sport at a practical level.”<br />
For more information on <strong>Tennis</strong> Force email<br />
psandilands@trioplusonline.co.uk<br />
or phone 020 8398 3232 / 07786 390 855
<strong>Tennis</strong> Charities<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation is Britain’s foremost tennis<br />
charity and focuses on the development of tennis,<br />
including schools, community and disability tennis by<br />
making organised and affordable tennis accessible to<br />
people of all ages and<br />
abilities, year round. Its<br />
priorities include working<br />
across local authority<br />
tennis facilities including<br />
schools and parks in<br />
England, Scotland and<br />
Wales, and at all levels of<br />
disability tennis.<br />
Contact details: The <strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation, The National<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London<br />
SW15 5JQ (Charity No. 298175)<br />
Tel: 0845 872 0522<br />
Email: info@tennisfoundation.org.uk<br />
www.tennisfoundation.org.uk<br />
The Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust<br />
The Trust was set up specifically to raise funds for<br />
people with disabilities to play tennis primarily, but not<br />
exclusively, in the following areas – wheelchair, deaf,<br />
learning disabilities and visually impaired.<br />
The Trust provides grants to assist with the purchase of<br />
specialist tennis wheelchairs; the provision of equipment/<br />
coaching bags and assistance to groups, associations,<br />
club programmes and individuals for any disability.<br />
Contact details: The Dan Maskell <strong>Tennis</strong> Trust,<br />
c/o Sport Wins, PO Box 238, Tadworth KT20 5WT<br />
(Charity No. 1133589)<br />
Tel: 01737 831707<br />
Email: danmaskell@sportwins.co.uk<br />
www.danmaskelltennistrust.org.uk<br />
“Give it Your Max” <strong>Tennis</strong> Initiative (GIYM)<br />
GIYM was formed after the death of young tennis<br />
player Max Stotesbury and aims to: provide funds to<br />
encourage children from disadvantaged backgrounds,<br />
to learn how to play tennis; <strong>Tennis</strong> Clinics in primary<br />
schools and support for PE Teachers plus programmes<br />
in after school hours and holidays and to provide<br />
financial assistance to those talented children to join<br />
local clubs.<br />
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Contact details: Michael, Tara or Freddie Stotesbury,<br />
5 Lancaster Gardens, Wimbledon SW19 5DG<br />
Tel: 020 8946 4459<br />
Email: mail@giveityourmax.org<br />
www.giveityourmax.org<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> for Free<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> For Free was established in 2005 to address the<br />
barriers for participation in <strong>Tennis</strong> (ie court charges)<br />
and to bring the benefits of playing tennis and<br />
becoming actively engaged in sport to young people.<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> For Free works in partnership with local<br />
schools, tennis clubs and local authorities throughout<br />
the <strong>UK</strong>, providing free access to community tennis<br />
courts, free coaching/participation sessions and free<br />
usage of equipment.<br />
Contact details: <strong>Tennis</strong> for Free,<br />
55 Thornhill Square, London N1 1BE<br />
(Charity No. 1103765)<br />
Tel: 0870 011 3733<br />
www.tennisforfree.com<br />
Kids at Heart<br />
Kids at Heart is an annual fundraising campaign for<br />
children’s charities throughout the country. Tim<br />
Henman, the former British No. 1 and World No. 4, in<br />
2000, established it when he was charities chairman<br />
for the ATP tennis tour. Kids At Heart is the umbrella<br />
name for the foundation which raises funds and then<br />
chooses its benefactors.<br />
Contact details: c/o IMG, Pier House, Strand on the<br />
Green, Chiswick, London W4 3NN<br />
(Charity Number: 1083055)<br />
The <strong>Tennis</strong> First Charitable Trust (<strong>Tennis</strong> First)<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> First is an independent registered charity and<br />
helps young players throughout the <strong>UK</strong> who are<br />
dedicated to fulfilling their potential of reaching a<br />
senior world ranking of 250 and better. It makes grants<br />
for coaching, travel expenses and training.<br />
Contact Details: Westbrook House, Fairfield Road,<br />
Shawford, Winchester, Hants SO21 2DA<br />
(Charity Number: 1075649)<br />
Email: mail@<strong>Tennis</strong>First.org.uk.<br />
www.tennisfirst.org.uk
Clubs have been working with Celebrity<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> since 1997, arranging to have<br />
tennis legends at their events through us.<br />
Whether you are opening new courts or<br />
facility, or looking to entertain your clients<br />
over a game of tennis, or rewarding your<br />
employees, Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> can provide<br />
the right tennis legend for your event.<br />
Call 020 8249 3366 and book a tennis<br />
legend for your event.<br />
Make Your <strong>Tennis</strong> Fantasies Come True<br />
Meet the Legends of <strong>Tennis</strong> – <strong>Book</strong> A Celebrity for your Event Now<br />
Play doubles with a Wimbledon Champion?<br />
Get tips from Annabel Croft? Try returning a<br />
serve from Pat Cash? Need an MC or<br />
speaker? Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> will make it happen<br />
for you...<br />
Looking to add more fun and enjoyment to<br />
your business conferences, entertaining your<br />
clients and staff? Call Celebrity <strong>Tennis</strong> to<br />
make it happen...<br />
Treat your members to a different club day by<br />
inviting a legend of the game to visit your club.<br />
We specialise in tailoring events to suit your<br />
needs and budget, and offer a no-obligation<br />
free initial consultation so contact us for a<br />
quote.<br />
Visit: www.celebritytennis.co.uk<br />
or email:<br />
info@celebritytennis.co.uk<br />
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07768 665 458
Recreational <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
laying tennis is not just a sport for the professional<br />
Pplayer, but an activity which millions can and do<br />
enjoy as a pastime, either to keep fit, for social<br />
reasons, or as a hobby.<br />
Local clubs cater for these individuals and provide plenty of<br />
opportunities for competitive play with club ladders, leagues,<br />
club evenings and for the more advanced players, inter club<br />
matches. But there are events and organisations which cater for<br />
players who want to expand their horizons and we highlight a<br />
few below.<br />
The Family Championships<br />
Set up originally in the eighties, the event was aimed<br />
specifically at tennis playing families to give parents and their<br />
offspring an opportunity to play together in a national doubles<br />
tennis championship.<br />
Sponsored by Remington and supported by the LTA, it ran very<br />
successfully for nine years attracting, at its peak, 1500 pairs.<br />
The general<br />
format was<br />
even copied in<br />
other countries<br />
resulting in an<br />
international<br />
event for the<br />
The 2010 Father & Son finalists, Chris Li &<br />
Josh Gook with the champions Roger &<br />
Michael Ingham. Picture <strong>Tennis</strong> Today<br />
Kiam Cup.<br />
Unfortunately<br />
that all came to<br />
an end when<br />
Remington had to terminate its sponsorship at a time when the<br />
overall economic situation was in a downward spiral. Unable to<br />
attract another title sponsor the event was put on hold until it<br />
was revived,<br />
thanks to the <strong>TIA</strong><br />
<strong>UK</strong> and the LTA,<br />
in 2007.<br />
The basic format<br />
remains the same,<br />
namely a postal<br />
event played over<br />
the summer<br />
months with a<br />
final weekend<br />
staged at the<br />
David Lloyd<br />
The 2010 Mother & Daughter finalists,<br />
Joan & Julia Hassell with the champions,<br />
Lucy & Sara Butler. Picture <strong>Tennis</strong> Today<br />
Leisure Dudley centre in November where both the semis and<br />
finals of the various categories are played.<br />
The event caters for the following family combinations, namely<br />
Open events for Fathers & Sons and Mothers & Daughters,<br />
plus events for parents and offspring aged 14 & under as well<br />
as 10 & under, and mixed combinations for Fathers &<br />
Daughters and Mother & Sons, Open and 14&U.<br />
Entry deadline is April 1 and details can be obtained from the<br />
event’s dedicated website on familychampionships.org.uk or<br />
from the organisers, Abbott Media Services, on 01491 612042.<br />
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45 Club members settle down for dinner at the Exmouth Centre<br />
after one of their One Day events. Picture 45 Club.<br />
The 45 Club<br />
A nomadic club without its own premises, focusing on the<br />
‘veteran’ player, that is men 45 & over and women 40 & over. In<br />
many ways the predecessor of the Vets <strong>Tennis</strong> Association as it<br />
was set up to provide competitive play for the older generation<br />
which was not being catered for in the post war years.<br />
This is no longer the case as Vets <strong>Tennis</strong> has become one of<br />
the fastest growing sectors of the sport but the 45 Club still<br />
caters for the players wishing to expand their horizons.<br />
The 45 Club offers club players the opportunity of trying some<br />
tennis activities which might not be available at their own<br />
primary club like One-day mixed tournaments at venues around<br />
the country with dinner to round off the day. There are also<br />
overseas trips where tennis is the theme but not necessarily the<br />
only objective. In addition, the Club offers opportunities for<br />
competitive representative play against other clubs and the<br />
services, as well as offering chances to play at events abroad.<br />
With its low membership fees, the 45 Club should be seen as a<br />
second option for players who enjoy playing the game and<br />
meeting new, like minded people. For more information visit<br />
their dedicated website at 45club.org or ring the Membership<br />
Secretary on 020 8505 6527<br />
London <strong>Tennis</strong> Ltd<br />
These days the internet is becoming more prominent in<br />
promoting recreational tennis, something which London <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
has been developing since 2006. They now have a web based<br />
network of London adult tennis players to whom they provide a<br />
series of leagues and competition.<br />
Again, the need for additional playing opportunities is being<br />
provided to players of all standards with a website that can<br />
assist you in finding tennis playing partners as well as courts, a<br />
means to record your scores and receive a site ranking to aid in<br />
finding players of a similar standard.<br />
There are four league seasons per year, each lasting<br />
approximately twelve weeks and costing £15 each to enter with<br />
results between LTA members going to the LTA to contribute to<br />
their personal national LTA ranking.<br />
For more details visit the website at londontennis.co.uk or<br />
phone 020 8789 0482.
THE JOURNAL OF THE TENNIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION <strong>UK</strong> www.tiauk.org<br />
Serving the Insiders<br />
<strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong>’s broadsheet newspaper<br />
offers credible observation and<br />
comment on the business side of<br />
the game played on these shores.<br />
Aimed at aficionados, officials,<br />
media and volunteers as well as<br />
players at all levels of the sport, TO<br />
is designed to:<br />
�� Reach the British tennis public<br />
�� Benefit member companies<br />
�� Provide a communications tool<br />
�� Promote member activities,<br />
products and services; and<br />
�� Help market the industry<br />
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�� News coverage<br />
�� Debate<br />
�� Features on industry issues<br />
�� Research findings<br />
�� Overseas best practice reports<br />
�� Prominent figure interviews<br />
�� Market segment focus<br />
�� Letters to the editor<br />
�� Invitations to tender<br />
�� Job opportunities<br />
�� Display advertising<br />
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<strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Member Profile 2<br />
TrioPlus Ltd was established as a company in March 2005<br />
by three Directors: Phillip Sandilands, David Carpenter and<br />
Bob Knowles. Alex Newton joined the company as its fourth<br />
Director in May 2009. All four Directors have held senior<br />
positions in the sport and leisure sector, Phillip as Director of<br />
Facilities for The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association, David as Director<br />
of the Lottery Sports Fund, Bob as the Fund’s Head of<br />
Operations and Alex as the NW Regional Manager for the<br />
English Institute for Sport and latterly as Head of World Class<br />
Programmes at <strong>UK</strong> Sport.<br />
Their business expertise revolves around the many varied<br />
elements involved in the start-up, development and delivery of<br />
projects and programmes in sport, leisure and physical<br />
activity. They specialise in taking a brief where internal<br />
capacity and/or expertise is unavailable, working closely with<br />
the client, but bringing independent and objective advice<br />
together with solutions that add value and assist the client,<br />
drawing on the very extensive experience of the Directors and<br />
the company’s Associates.<br />
The company ethos is to add significant value, offer a<br />
personal, bespoke and dedicated service with close attention<br />
to detail and bring enthusiasm and commitment to delivery.<br />
They have an extensive portfolio of client projects across the<br />
sporting landscape built up over the last six years including<br />
Badminton England, England and Wales Cricket Board,<br />
England Hockey Board, the FA, Institute of Groundsmanship,<br />
the LTA, London Boroughs of Newham and Lambeth, LOCOG,<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Scotland, Universities of East London and Ulster,<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation and Wembley Stadium Trust.<br />
2010 saw the launch of TrioPlus <strong>Tennis</strong>, a dedicated resource<br />
for local, regional, national and international tennis<br />
projects. TrioPlus <strong>Tennis</strong> offers an unrivalled wealth of<br />
experience in all aspects of tennis development and facility<br />
procurement, headed up by Phillip Sandilands.<br />
Recent tennis-related projects include an Operational Strategy<br />
for the LTA’s National <strong>Tennis</strong> Centre; feasibility work for the<br />
Judy Murray <strong>Tennis</strong> Club; Facility Strategy for <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Scotland; ITI Centre and community tennis audit and various<br />
tennis centre feasibility studies.<br />
Key services offered by TrioPlus include:<br />
Facility development strategies – identification of facility<br />
requirements in line with market demand, current trends,<br />
planning for future needs and negotiated prioritisation.<br />
Programme and project start-ups – from feasibility study,<br />
through project concept and development to implementation<br />
and operation, including advice on business planning,<br />
staffing, procurement, marketing and public relations.<br />
Option and risk appraisals – research and assessment of<br />
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Phillip Sandilands, Director<br />
project options, including economic appraisal (in accordance<br />
with Treasury ‘Green <strong>Book</strong>’), compilation of risk register,<br />
probability/impact matrix, and scope for elimination,<br />
mitigation or management.<br />
Corporate governance and organisational reviews – objective<br />
and impartial assessment of organisational structures and<br />
delivery mechanisms, effectiveness of governance regime,<br />
extent of exposure and proposals for improvement.<br />
Grant applications – identification of most appropriate<br />
source(s), development of bids for grant support (capital and<br />
revenue), brokering of partnerships, negotiation of contracts<br />
and implementation planning.<br />
Funding advice – research and advice on sources and types<br />
of finance, options to secure funding, economic planning.<br />
Project investigations and rescue strategies –<br />
troubleshooting, financial restructuring, organisational<br />
restructuring, realignment of business activities or objectives.<br />
Monitoring and evaluation – identification of key performance<br />
indicators, sample selection, measuring techniques,<br />
compliance, value for money appraisal, benchmarking.<br />
Phillip remains close and committed to the development of<br />
tennis at grass roots level. “I feel that I can contribute fully to<br />
the work of the <strong>TIA</strong> and help deliver further collaboration with<br />
the LTA and the <strong>Tennis</strong> Foundation. Membership of the <strong>TIA</strong><br />
has enabled TrioPlus to contribute towards forward strategy<br />
which in turn has opened additional opportunities to promote<br />
our expertise within British <strong>Tennis</strong>”.<br />
Contact: Phillip Sandilands, Director<br />
020 8398 3232 / 07786 390855<br />
Email: psandilands@trioplusonline.co.uk
Why become part of the <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong>?<br />
The answer is simply: In order to play an<br />
active role within your industry and to<br />
influence the future of British tennis.<br />
Also, if you wish to be included in future<br />
editions of this book, you need to be member<br />
in compliance with our Code of Practice!<br />
As a tennis business, your company is dependent on<br />
the success and growth of this sport, so it makes<br />
sense to contribute towards its welfare.<br />
You need to promote your company, its products and<br />
services, to improve sales, and to be best placed to<br />
benefit from a growing market; while the health of the<br />
game is, of course, of paramount concern to you.<br />
Plus your industry needs your input and experience to<br />
make a real difference, to help push the boundaries for<br />
a better future, and because collective bargaining has<br />
always proved an effective negotiating tool.<br />
If we don’t hear from you, the <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> cannot help you<br />
in any direction.<br />
The <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> offers a range of professional benefits and<br />
unique networking opportunities together with a means<br />
to play an active role in a collective initiative that holds<br />
British tennis at its heart.<br />
Membership of <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> delivers an effective conduit for<br />
feedback alongside a range of useful benefits and, as a<br />
member, your company receives:<br />
Exposure via www.tiauk.org<br />
Access to services such as <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Insurance<br />
and<strong>Tennis</strong>wire Network<br />
Compliance to an acknowledged Code of Practice<br />
A ground pass to every day of The Wimbledon<br />
Championships<br />
Eligibility for <strong>Tennis</strong> Force, <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong>’s new advisory<br />
service<br />
Involvement and benefit from the Research<br />
programme<br />
Member only resources<br />
Networking opportunities<br />
Free entry in The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong><br />
Complimentary copies of The <strong>Tennis</strong> <strong>Book</strong> for<br />
distribution to customers<br />
Discounted rates in <strong>Tennis</strong> Outlook<br />
Inclusion in <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong>’s collective logo advertisement<br />
in house publications<br />
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Email news alerts and regular member-only<br />
newsletters<br />
Special rates at trade events and access to The<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Shop<br />
Membership certificate<br />
Right to serve on the Board of Directors<br />
A vote on future policy<br />
Sponsorship opportunities<br />
Exclusive use of the <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> kite mark<br />
<strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> is about building workable and productive<br />
relationships – with the governing body, with<br />
professional organisations and with the membership<br />
via improved, productive communication.<br />
On-going dialogue with The Lawn <strong>Tennis</strong> Association<br />
is working towards a greater understanding of what<br />
tennis business has to offer and what it can contribute<br />
in many different areas.<br />
Our strategy is to roll out wider benefits, target new<br />
objectives and provide networking services to increase<br />
collaboration and innovation.<br />
The objective is to support and encourage the growth<br />
of British tennis at all levels, starting with the<br />
recreational grass roots through to the elitist game.<br />
Perhaps the most significant project of direct benefit to<br />
members is the launch of the pilot in <strong>2011</strong> to promote<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Force, an advisory service extending The <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
<strong>Book</strong> concept into an offering of <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong> member<br />
products and services to Places to Play and other<br />
tennis-based clients.<br />
With the help and promotion of 60-plus companies<br />
and organisations, <strong>TIA</strong><strong>UK</strong>’s goals are simply to<br />
promulgate tennis business through the dedicated and<br />
experienced contributions of a collaborative<br />
membership.<br />
Why wouldn’t your company want to be part of a<br />
professional trade body that holds your tennis<br />
business interests so close to its heart?
<strong>Tennis</strong> Trade Membership<br />
MEMBERSHIP BRINGS:<br />
��Free entry in The <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
<strong>Book</strong><br />
��Reduced rates in <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Outlook<br />
��Sales opportunities via<br />
<strong>Tennis</strong> Force and The <strong>Tennis</strong><br />
Shop at selected events<br />
��Wimbledon ground pass<br />
entry and ticket ballot<br />
��<strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> Insurance<br />
��Access to <strong>Tennis</strong>Wire PR<br />
services<br />
��Access to Research Project<br />
��Business Focus e-newsletter<br />
��Networking and industry<br />
contacts<br />
www.tiauk.org<br />
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If <strong>Tennis</strong> is<br />
your Racket<br />
Then the <strong>TIA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> is the<br />
trade body for you.<br />
We provide a range of<br />
benefits and<br />
resources to<br />
boost your<br />
business<br />
and can<br />
help to raise<br />
your profile.<br />
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT OUR<br />
ADMIN OFFICE AT:<br />
c/o Sport Wins, PO Box 238<br />
Tadworth KT20 5WT, <strong>UK</strong><br />
Phone +44 (0)1737 831 707<br />
Email: gilly@tiauk.org<br />
Over 60 companies already enjoy membership!
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