Club members can play all year round, whatever their age or ability, on one of our 20 international tournament standard courts.
Choose your surface from American Clay, Omni-Pro or porous acrylic outdoors to cushioned acrylic indoors (and American Clay indoors in the winter months). With our planned programme of club days and tournaments, you’ll never be without a partner for a game.
We offer a combination of individual and group coaching. There is a team of over 15 coaches who offer individual coaching for all ages and abilities. All tennis coaches are LTA licensed. There is also a comprehensive tennis timetable for both juniors and adults which caters for children from 4 years of age upwards and is relevant to the ability levels throughout all age groups. We also run a host of tournaments and social events throughout the year. The adult coaching programme offers courses, one-off sessions, pay and play sessions as well as free club mix-in sessions.
Each new member will benefit from an induction with one of our tennis coaches to establish your current ability. The West Hants Colour Grading System is a simple measurement of approximate playing standards. It follows snooker ball colours from their lowest to highest points value: red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black, the criteria for each colour is described in the table here. Get the most from the West Hants Tennis Programme with the following coaching, competitive and social play for your colour grade.
High-Performance Centre and Tennis Academy
Visit our news page to read our latest Junior success stories or click here to read about our RPDC status, awarded in July 2020.
In October 2004 the West Hants Club was awarded the status of being one of the LTA’s High-Performance Centres (HPC). Working in conjunction with the LTA’s two academies at Loughborough and Bath, the high-performance centres, of which there are currently 6 nationwide, will be at the forefront of the drive throughout British tennis to produce more and better players. Our Junior Tennis Academy thrives within this elite performance setting, and under the guidance of our excellent and experienced team of coaches, our Juniors enjoy national and international success on the court. Our Academy is partnered with Talbot Heath and Bournemouth Collegiate schools.
In order to achieve HPC status the club had to meet the following criteria:
That there are a minimum of 20 players of national standard registered in the club’s HPC programme.
The club is committed to providing quality training and tournament programmes for the players invited to access the HPC.
The club has the coaching staff and facilities to deliver these training and tournament programmes.
The club subsidises the high-performance centre with an equivalent level of funding to that which the LTA commits to the programme.