Finding the Right Class

In just over a week, we start our summer season at Encanto Sports Complex. We offer classes based on age, ability level, or family bonding. Selecting the right class is important for the quality of your child's experience.

If your child is in the age group of 5-8 years old and has never played tennis before, I recommend our LEARN TO RALLY class. Your child will have an opportunity to develop gross and fine motorskills related to tennis movements using a scaffolded approach. In other words, each skill builds upon one another.  This class uses smaller courts, smaller rackets, a lower net, and larger slower tennis balls. We also incorporate cooperative learning strategies so your child learns how to play with others and to keep the ball in play.

If your child has very little to no experience and is in the age group of 9-12, we recommend our BEGINNER class. If your eight year-old has played in our LEARN TO RALLY class, but is ready for more of a challenege, we also recommend this class. Our BEGINNER class is similar to the LEARN TO RALLY class except it is played on a 60 foot court using a smaller ball with more pressure. We also focus on teaching the students the foundation to advanced strokes and preparing them to play on the 60 foot court.

For children who have played before or have been in our pathway, we promote them to the ORANGE BALL 2 class for advanced beginner and intermediate students ages 8-10.

We have a class for students ages 11-14. Our GREEN BALL class is for our older students who are able to play on the full court with full or partial pressurized balls. We teach all ability levels in this class, but right now it is primarily aimed at those students who have progressed through our pathway.

Maybe your child only wants to play with mom or dad. We offer  PARENT AND ME  classes which allow for the parent and child to learn the same skills in our other classes but in a family friendly environment. 

Shadow Tennis

Many people think they need to go out to a tennis court to practice their tennis. What they don't realize is they can practice off the court. One way you can practice is to simply go out in your backyard and play shadow tennis. The key to being an exceptional player is to be able to perform the movement of each stroke in an effortless manner. When you go out in your backyard and pretend you are playing a point, you are making the muscle memory even stronger for how to perform the movement. So today, go out and try to play tennis with your shadow and make that shadow look good.