THE 2nd World Tennis Day will once again be celebrated in Guyana this Sunday, March 2. So says the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) in a press release yesterday.The Association successfully celebrated the event last year at the National Racquet Centre at Camp and Woolford Avenue with over 50 young children participating in fun-tennis-related activities. There were clinics for beginners, intermediate and advanced players and great exhibition matches were also played by Guyana’s top juniors. An excited crowd of spectators witnessed these matches.. The young players also received a pep talk from GTA’s president Ramesh Seebarran.
This year, the GTA will join with 60 ITF member nations to replicate this event with the expectation that more children will participate from at least ten primary schools that were invited. The children’s activities, which are scheduled for 09:00hrs to 11:30hrs, will include activities on and off court for children aged 5 to 14years old.
The GTA will also open its doors to the adult public to play during the afternoon session in a bid to encourage more adults to adopt the sport as a form of exercise.
The adult session will start at 13.00hrs and end at 16.00hrs and will include CARDIO tennis drills which combine the best features of the sport of tennis with cardiovascular exercise as a high energy exercise regime that is useful for persons wishing to lose weight and improve their health and wellbeing.
In an effort to grow and promote the game of tennis around the world, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) launched this annual event in 2013 in partnership with StarGames, a multinational tennis partner who once again this year organised the three exhibition match showdowns which will be held in New York, Hong Kong and London on Monday, March 3rd with a line-up of top-ranked players who will surely thrill the international tennis fraternity.
The GTA invites the general public to participate in this event and the organisation will also use the opportunity to provide information on coaches and their club programmes for interested persons who wish to start playing tennis in Guyana.