Tere-Apisah Tennis Academy PNG

Not every day you get to hit with a GOAT 🐐✨

Violet Apisah out here living the dream—sharing the court with none other than the legendary Venus Williams 🎾🔥 What an unreal experience! We just had to share it!

The session? Super cool, inspiring, and one to remember forever. We hope to see you on the professional tour real soon Vio 💪🏾🇵🇬

Moments like these remind us why we love the game 💛

NextGen

Good luck to our juniors representing PNG at this years Pacific Oceania Junior Championships 💪🏾🇵🇬 Let’s go team PNG!

Introducing our newest grassroots coach, Coach Seven 🎾

We’re so proud to officially introduce Karo “Seven” Tere, the elder brother of Coach Vere Tere, as our new Saturday morning coach for RaiKau and Alewai villages in Hula.

Following our recent women’s program, we were able to donate a few rackets (including some pre-loved ones), a net, and red balls—creating an opportunity for tennis to continue right in the heart of the community.

And there’s no better person to lead this than Uncle Seven, who will be running sessions right outside his yard. Uncle is still fishing and gardening, even at his young age of 72, so he continues to keep himself in shape.

Uncle Seven brings with him a strong foundation in the game, having spent many years learning from Coach Vera and Coach Kwalam Apisah throughout the 2000s. His knowledge, passion, and willingness to give back make him the perfect person to grow the sport at the grassroots level. We hope that he can bring under his wing 1 or 2 women from the program to work with him and continue to expand their knowledge of the sport. Starting with his grand daughter Agivanagi, who was one of the participants during the “Community Level Play Tennis Coaching Course”.

Thank you, Coach Seven, for stepping up and leading the way for the next generation. We can’t wait to see you bring some of your players down to Port Moresby for upcoming tournaments!

PlayAndStay GrowingTheGame

Congratulations to the 2026 PNGTA board. A special one to the newly appointed secretary, Adelaide 👏🏾👏🏾 We look forward to an exciting year working with you all 💪🏾🇵🇬

While we are in the spirit of giving back, coaches were finally able to donate another batch of tennis clothes from Coach Martin of Tennis Australia, Northern Territory.

Majority of this particular batch of clothes were donated by Australia’s doubles specialist Marc Polmans who was the finalist at this years Men’s Doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne! How amazing👏🏾

Thank you also to Adelaide Senior and Patrick Koliwan for adding to the gift of giving by handing out brand new QAQA water bottles for these players. Thank you ❤️

Once again, we are very happy to have facilitated the 2nd Community Level Play Tennis Coaching Course here in Port Moresby.

A growing community you could be a part of! Open to women & girls 14+! It’s free!

After an exciting weekend in Alewai village delivering our first Community level Play Tennis Coaching Course, we are excited to keep the momentum going with a second course here in Port Moresby.

Open to women & girls interested in being a part of growing the sport of tennis in your local communities (grassroots tennis). We are thankful to PacificAus Sports PacificAus Sports & Tennis Australia Tennis Australia for creating and funding initiatives like this for grassroots level tennis. Check flyer for more details.

Contact number on Flyer to register

It’s mornings like this that reminded me why I love what I do ❤️ Mini Tennis in Alewai village

Came back to my village to run a community coaching course… but sometimes things don’t go to plan — and that’s okay. Because what unfolded was even better.

So many kids gathered around just watching us set up, full of curiosity and excitement. You could see it in their eyes… they just wanted a chance to play.

We took 30-45 minutes, let them jump in, hit some balls, laugh, learn — and finished off with a mini competition that brought so much energy and joy 🎾

To top it all off, we handed out donated shirts from — moments like that mean everything.

Huge thank you to Coach Martin for making that possible 🙏

Sometimes the best sessions are the unplanned ones.

Incredibly thankful to have facilitated this program to the women and girls in Alewai, Hula🙏🏾💪🏾 We know many of these woman are keen for the pathways this could open especially in the grassroots level. Thank you to Papua New Guinea Tennis Association, Pacific AUS Sports & Tennis Australia for continuing to create and fund initiatives like these 🙏🏾