Hampshire & IOW Tennis

Become a Young Person’s Welfare Ambassador

Do you want to gain valuable new skills, level up your CV, UCAS statement and DofE award, all whilst supporting your tennis club to promote young people's voices and make tennis safe and enjoyable? If yes, sign up today to become a Young Persons Welfare Ambassador (YPWA).
For more information: https://www.lta.org.uk/about-us/safeguarding/children-and-young-people/young-persons-welfare-ambassador/

What do I need to do to start running competitions?

The first step is to attend a three hour Competition Organiser course which is run online over zoom.

The course, which is not assessed, covers:

Competition framework, ratings and rankings
Running a competition from start to finish – competition creation to submitting results
Formal and informal competition formats
Creating the best competition experience possible
To attend a course you must be aged 16 or over and be a UK resident.

Having attended a course to be eligible to deliver local and recreational competitions graded 6 or 7 you must become an LTA Licensed Official, unless you are a Coach and already hold LTA Accreditation or Accreditation+.

You will then have access to apply to run competitions via the LTA Competition Management System and can apply for tools such as Results Manager, Box League Manager and Tennis Tournament Planner (TTP).

You can book your Competition Organiser course here: https://www.lta.org.uk/roles-and-venues/coaches/development/courses/?optType=name&course-name=+Competition+Organiser

here are no courses avaliable, please register your interest here: https://www.lta.org.uk/roles-and-venues/officials/officiating-courses-interest/

Find & Book A LTA Tennis Course A complete list of courses available to coaches, officials & volunteers. Have a browse through the list and book your next tennis course.

Congratulations to our 11U Boys County Cup team who finished day 2 with a 4-2 win v Glos & 6-0 win v Shropshire, so were winners of Group 2E 🥇. Well done Adam, Harry, Jacob, Riley & a big thank you to Callum and David, Captains

Huge congratulations to our 11U Girls County Cup team - winners of Play-off Group 1A after a 4-2 win v Herts. 🥇Astrid, Elizabeth, Esther and Liliana are off to the Finals - well played girls and a big thank you to Lottie and Simon, Captains

Our 11U County Cup teams were playing away this weekend. Girls in Group 1A Play-off at East Dorset LTC and Boys in Group 2E at Manor Park, Malvern.

The LTA and Getty Images are proud to celebrate 50 years of wheelchair tennis, with a digital exhibition of 50 images – some published for the first time.

Created in 1976, by American Brad Parks, what began on public courts in California quickly gathered momentum. By the mid‑1980s, international tournaments were being staged, the World Team Cup had been launched, and the ITF had formally recognised wheelchair tennis.

Today, wheelchair tennis is fully embedded across the four Grand Slams and the Paralympics Games, with men’s, women’s, quad and junior events now contested on the world’s biggest stages.

The LTA brought together key figures from the world of wheelchair tennis to select 50 iconic images from across the years from the Getty Images’ vast tennis archive as well as previously unseen historic photographs.

You can go find out more and view the gallery here: https://www.lta.org.uk/news/2026/may/celebrating-50-years-of-wheelchair-tennis-with-50-images/

Just in case you needed an excuse to get on court!

The inaugural Adult County Padel Championships
CLOSING DATE 20th JUNE
Get your entries in now!!!!

Venue: The Padel Hub, Unit A1 & A2, Adanac Trade Park, Adanac Drive, Southampton, SO16 0AU
Date: 4th/5th July
Details: HAM-26-0189, Grade 3

Men's Doubles and Ladies Doubles

We held our inaugural Junior Padel County Championships this weekend at the PadelHub SO16 - 18U Boys and Girls and 14U Boys events.
We had 5 pairs of 18U girls competing. Congratulations to our 18U Girls winners - Ellie and Saffia, our first 18U Girls Padel Champions and Claudia and Scout - runners-up
In the 14U & 18U Boys we had 17 pairs. Thank you to all who competed & for many it was their first time in a Padel competition. Double congratulations to Joe & Lukin and Sebastian and Tom who were our winners and runners-up

A big thank you to Claire from Andover TC who for many years has organised the internal and external competitions for the Club with patience and skill and she does many other useful and helpful activities around the Club