Inverclyde Now Logo JUDY Murray Foundation Serves Up Tennis Project For Greenock

4 June, 2018 | Sport

GREENOCK is the first place chosen to benefit from the new Judy Murray Foundation which was launched at the town’s tennis clubs at the weekend.

The foundation will work in a number disadvantaged and rural areas of Scotland over three years showing teachers, parents, youth leaders and students how to deliver starter tennis to kids, teens and adults in whatever space they have available.

The first area selected is Greenock and, as part of the foundation’s launch, more than 150 adults and children enjoyed a series of short fun sessions at Ardgowan and Fort Matilda Tennis Clubs.

There were two parent-and-child sessions plus an adult session and a junior competition all of which were well attended.

Sessions were taken by experienced Judy Murray Foundation coaches Kris Soutar,  above centre, and Laura Middleton, right, in partnership with the clubs’ head coach Stephanie Norris, left.

Chris Jewell of Ardgowan Tennis Club, said: “It was quite an honour that the foundation launched in Greenock and the work that the foundation will do here will be hugely important to the growth of participation in tennis in Inverclyde, aided by the plans we have for a new indoor tennis centre at Rankin Park.

“The foundation aims to create a workforce drawn from lots of places locally and we look forward to working with them as part of the project.”

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