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This past weekend, Tennis South Africa submitted its return to tennis operational plan to the Ministry and Department of Sports, Arts and Culture.

The document is aligned to the national alert level 3 sport directions gazetted late last week and provides a timeline for the staggered return of tennis, the monitoring and compliance protocols in place and risk mitigation guidelines for players, coaches, venues and events.

Visit www.tennissa.co.za to download the full document.

The document is due to be reviewed in the next few days by our government and we will provide further news as soon as we receive it.

Tennis coaches in South Africa in the dark after the last public speech by Minister Nhati Mthethwa. This video was created by the tennis coaches community after the Minister of Sport in South Africa opened sport only for professional players. This has left ...

Sadly we will not be on court on Monday.

The CEO of Tennis South Africa has sent an open letter to the wider tennis tennis community, following today’s media briefing by the Honourable Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture.

Read the full letter at http://tennissa.co.za.

Below is an extract:

"Yesterday, nine non-contact sports federations - including Tennis SA - issued a joint statement appealing to our national government to consider the economic impact of restricting organised sport in South Africa. I expect this collective lobbying and pressure to intensify in the coming days because there are thousands of livelihoods at stake across all areas of the local sports eco-system.

The risks of job losses across our industry remain real and frightening. Golf, swimming, gymnastics and tennis combined create 72 000 jobs in South Africa.….many of these jobs are in the grassroots and amateur areas of our sports. That is just for four sports in South Africa…..imagine the total number across all 76 official sporting codes in our country."

The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture is looking to provide more detail (and answer a number of pressing questions) regarding the sport specific aspects of the alert level 3 regulations during the course of this weekend.

The Honourable Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture will be part of a media briefing tomorrow, in which he is also expected to provide more guidance.

TSA is committed to providing all members of our community with clear guidelines on what will and will not be possible - in terms of tennis at alert level 3 - before the end of this weekend.

Tennis is not just about hitting tennis balls, there is speed and agility, hand eye coordination, footwork, tennis specific strength work, explosiveness, nutrition and a lot more...... It’s important for players to work on all the areas and repeat them day in and day out to become the best player they can be 🎾🎾