Modified tennis is a scaled down version of tennis in which smaller rackets (or bats) a smaller court, softer balls, lower net height and a game based approach is used to introduce young children to the game. Tennis is a great game and modified tennis is the best way to introduce it to learners.

Benefits of Modified Tennis

• Create fun and enjoyment
• Inexpensive and easy to introduce
• Can be played indoors and outdoors
• Encourage sport-love & lifestyle
• Develop role-models at school
• Creates opportunity for talent ID and exposure formal tennis and HP programmes
• A recreation tool for whole school community
• Promotes integration and team spirit

Modified tennis has been shown around the world to be the most cost efficient and effective meansto introduce young people to tennis. It has proven extremely successful in countries like France, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Sweden. The ITF has introduced modified tennis
programmes into more than 80 countries across 5 continents.