Koru Tennis Club

Junior and Adult coaching groups start from this week! 🎾
If you want to sign-up for any of our lessons, email head coach Gabriel here - [email protected] 💻

Club day changes from today 11/04/2026 to be on Saturday during winter period. See you today from 1 pm.

Koru Junior Prizegiving

Successful end of season Prizegiving and Easter celebration for Koru Juniors yesterday. Congratulations 🎊 to all the certificate and trophy winners 🏆. A big thank you to parents and team managers. Keep practicing your 🎾 over winter and look forward to seeing you all at Love Tennis in September.

Successful end of season Prizegiving and Easter celebration for Koru Juniors yesterday. Congratulations 🎊 to all the certificate and trophy winners 🏆. A big thank you to parents and team managers. Keep practicing your 🎾 over winter and look forward to seeing you all at Love Tennis in September.

33 reasons why Tennis is one of the best sports to play 🎾

Physical Reasons to Play Tennis🏃🏽‍♂️

1. aerobic fitness by burning fat and improving your cardiovascular fitness and maintaining higher energy levels.
2. anaerobic fitness by offering short, intense bursts of activity during a point followed by rest which helps muscles use oxygen efficiently.
3. ability to accelerate by practice in sprinting, jumping and lunging to move quickly.
4. powerful first step by requiring anticipation, quick reaction time and explosion into action.
5. speed through a series of side-to-side and up and back sprints to chase the ball.
6. leg strength through hundreds of starts and stops which build stronger leg muscles.
7. general body coordination since you have to move into position and then adjust your upper body to hit the ball successfully.
8. gross motor control through court movement and ball-striking skills which require control of your large muscle groups.
9. fine motor control by the use of touch shots like angled volleys, drop shots and lobs.
10. agility by forcing you to change direction as many as 5 times in 10 seconds during a typical tennis point.
11. dynamic balance through hundreds of starts, stops, changes of direction and hitting on the run.
12. cross-training by offering a physically demanding sport that’s fun to play for athletes who are expert in other sports.
13. bone strength and density by strengthening bones of young players and helping prevent osteoporosis in older ones.
14. immune system through its conditioning effects which promote overall health, fitness and resistance to disease.
15. nutritional habits by eating appropriately before competition to enhance energy production and after competition to practice proper recovery methods.
16. eye-hand coordination because you constantly judge the timing between the on-coming ball and the proper contact point.
17. flexibility due to the constant stretching and maneuvering to return the ball toward your opponent.

Psychological Reasons to Play Tennis🧠

18. develop a work ethic because improvement through lessons or practice reinforces the value of hard work.
19. develop discipline since you learn to work on your skills in practice and control the pace of play in competition.
20. manage mistakes by learning to play within your abilities and realizing that managing and minimizing mistakes in tennis or life is critical.
21. learn to compete one-on-one because the ability to compete and fight trains you in the ups and downs of a competitive world.
22. accept responsibility because only you can prepare to compete by practicing skills, checking your equipment and during match play by making line calls.
23. manage adversity by learning to adjust to the elements (e.g. wind, sun) and still be able to compete tenaciously.
24. accommodate stress effectively because the physical, mental and emotional stress of tennis will force you to increase you capacity for dealing with stress.
25. learn how to recover by adapting to the stress of a point and the recovery period between points which is similar to the stress and recovery cycles in life.
26. plan and implement strategies since you naturally learn how to anticipate an opponent’s moves and plan your countermoves.
27. learn to solve problems since tennis is a sport based on angles, geometry and physics.
28. develop performance rituals before serving or returning to control your rhythm of play and deal with pressure These skills can transfer to taking exams, conducting a meeting or making an important sales presentation.
29. learn sportsmanship since tennis teaches you to compete fairly with opponents.
30. learn to win graciously and lose with honor. Gloating after a win or making excuses after a loss doesn’t work in tennis or in life.
31. learn teamwork since successful doubles play depends on you and your partner’s ability to communicate and play as a cohesive unit.
32. develop social skills through interaction and communication before a match, while changing sides of the court and after play.
33. have FUN… because the healthy feelings of enjoyment, competitiveness and physical challenge are inherent in the sport.

We've all been there 😬🎾💀

JOIN US THIS SUMMER AT KORU TENNIS CLUB 🎾 Pakuranga’s Local Friendly Tennis Club! 📍
Looking to get back into tennis, join social club nights or just want to learn a new sport?

Come & give us a try! We've got it all 🥳
✅Junior coaching (from 5 y/o upwards)
✅Junior & Senior interclub options
✅Private & group coaching available
✅Social nights (twice weekly)

Or just come down to your local tennis club for a ‘hit’, with family & friends.
Term 1 group coaching options for kids & adults – ALL LEVELS! Also January Kids holiday program (Jan 19th-22nd)
Want to know more? Drop us a DM or get in touch here ⬇️

https://www.korutennis.co.nz/contact-us.html

Kids Holiday program this summer will take place in January, Monday 19th to Thursday 22nd.
Monday & Thursday 9-12pm, Tuesday & Wednesday 12-3pm (Friday is the rain date).
To sign-up, contact Sue: [email protected]

Why do you pay so much money for your kids to do all their sports/tennis? Well there's a confession to make; you dont pay for your kids to to do sports.

So, if you're not paying for sports what are you paying for?

- You pay for those moments when your kids become so tired they want to quit but don't.

- You pay for those days when your kids come home from school and are "too tired" to go to their training but they go anyway.

- You pay for your kids to learn to be disciplined, focused and dedicated.

- You pay for your kids to learn to take care of their body and learn how to correctly fuel their body for success.

- You pay for your kids to learn to work with others and to be good team mates, gracious in defeat and humble in success.

- You pay for your kids to learn to deal with disappointment, when they don't get that placing or title they'd hoped for, but still they go back week after week giving it their best shot.

- You pay for your kids to learn to make and accomplish goals.

- You pay for your kids to respect, not only themselves, but others, officials, judges and coaches.

- You pay for your kids to learn that it takes hours and hours, years and years of hard work and practice to create a champion and that success does not happen overnight.

- You pay for your kids to be proud of small achievements, and to work towards long term goals.

- You pay for the opportunity your kids have and will have to make life-long friendships, create lifelong memories, to be as proud of their achievements as a parent can be.

- You pay so that your kids can be in the court/field instead of in front of a screen...

- You pay for those rides home where you make precious memories talking about practice, both good and bad.

- You pay so that your child can learn the importance of time management and balancing what is important like school and keeping grades up

..I could go on but, to be short, you don't pay for sports; you pay for the opportunities that sports provides your kids with to develop attributes that will serve them well throughout their lives and give them the opportunity to bless the lives of others. From what I have seen so far I think it is a great investment!"

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How Playing Professional Tennis Changes Your Body | Secrets of the Human Body | BBC Earth Science Due to repeated, high-impact use, the bones in a tennis players racket arms are 20% thicker and contain more bone mineral than their other arm! This dramatic...