The Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) recently hosted a four-day ‘Play Tennis’ course that was geared at better educating those who teach the sport.
The course, which commenced on December 11th and concluded on December 14th, 2019, was aimed at additionally equipping tennis coaches, potential tennis coaches, and teachers with the theoretic and practical skills required for training juniors for tennis.
A glimpse of one of the sessions during the course
Held at the National Racquet Centre, this course consisted of both on-court and theoretical teachings, and was facilitated by International Tennis Federation Expert Mr. Damien Applewhaite, who has been coaching for the past 19 years.
Applewhaite has been the first ITF Level 3 coach in the English-speaking Caribbean, and has been an ITF Team Coach of the COTECC Underp-16 team.
