Last week Martin visited Elmwood Tennis Club, the Advantage Community Tennis Partnership and Metro Blind Sports to discuss potential inclusive tennis opportunities.
He was accompanied on the visit to Metro Blind Sports by Anne Nicholls, Middlesex Tennis Trustee for Inclusion. They met Rory Field, CEO, and Amanda Green to explore ways Middlesex Tennis can support their work in visually impaired tennis, including sessions at Islington Tennis Centre, which have run alternate weeks for many years.
Amanda has been involved in VI tennis since 2007. After seeing Miyoshi Takei, the inventor of blind tennis, in action in London, she became hooked and later visited Japan to learn more before introducing the sport back to the UK.
Pictured above (left to right) Martin, Anne, Amanda and Rory in front of their King’s Award for Voluntary Service which Metro Blind Sport received in 2023.
The range of inclusive tennis options is really very wide and includes such options as learning disability, deaf, wheelchair, para standing, visually-impaired, walking tennis, dementia, loneliness, carers and many more.
If you would like Martin to visit your venue to talk about opportunities to run inclusive tennis session and associated funding then please contact him.
