This is a wonderful age to build the confidence in your child to play tennis! Our Little Aces curriculum has taught hundreds of young kids aged 3-4 to learn to control a racket, develop their hand/eye ball tracking capabilities and employ real tennis swings! Our fun and fast-paced 45 minute classes are designed to instill the joy of tennis in our youngsters and develop the skills necessary for them to improve!

Kids this age will rapidly advance their stroke technique and rallying capabilities with balls and court lengths appropriate to their age. At this age, larger foam balls, lower nets and courts 36’ in length are used (about the width of one doubles line to the other).

Once the kids have mastered rallying on short courts with a foam tennis ball, they progress to our low compression tennis ball; the same size as a regular ball – but lighter and less bouncy than a regular ball. The court length is then expanded to 60’ in length, with temporary baselines placed mid-way between a regular tennis court service line and baseline. At this stage, kids are reinforcing modern adult tennis swings, and learning to control ball movement in rallying situations both cross court and down the line with consistency. They will be playing singles and doubles matches just like adults!

While some players are ready as early as aged 9, the majority of our talented kids will shift over to regular tennis balls and full-sized courts at aged 11-12, when their height, strength, and skill level allows them to control rallies with a regular tennis ball. Our high performance camps place special emphasis on footwork, advanced stroke technique and winning competitive strategies for singles and doubles. Park Tennis USA uses Dartfish Videotaping Sports Technology, the same used by the US Olympic Teams, to conduct side-by side comparisons of their strokes vs. their favorite tennis professional! Players will have online locker rooms housing their video content.