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The best tennis camp location
Our team at Grand Slam Tennis Camps are renowned for their careful selection of potential venues for our tennis camps. For 2018 we’ve selected the prestigious New Hall School in Chelmsford. From the moment Grand Slam Camp players first travel up the mile-long, tree-lined avenue that leads to the grand façade of the former […]
Why Grand Slam Tennis Camps, by Active Away?
Grand Slam Tennis Camps are no ordinary tennis camps, we use current professional tennis players to host and lead our tennis programme. Head Coach at the tennis camps in 2018 is Marcus Willis a former top 300 ATP player, who recently played Roger Federer on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2016, and Jocelyn Rae who […]
Jocelyn Rae – Grand Slam Camps by Active Away
Grand Slam Tennis Camps are no ordinary tennis camps, we use current professional tennis players to lead our tennis camp programme. Heading up our 2018 Summer Tennis Camp is Jocelyn Rae; Jocelyn started playing tennis at the age of 7 at local tennis club Woodthorpe. She had a successful junior career reaching the […]
Marcus Willis – Grand Slam Camps by Active Away
Grand Slam Tennis Camps are no ordinary tennis camps, we use current professional tennis players to host and lead our tennis camp programme. Heading up the Summer 2018 tennis camps is Wimbledon player; Marcus Willis. Marcus Willis began playing tennis at the age of 9, and reached the No. 15 in the […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 12
Did you manage to read part 11 last week? We looked at improving you impact on the game from the servers partners perspective. I had some great feedback from that blog post. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. In this part we are going to look at the hot […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 11
Did you manage to read part 10 last? We looked at improving your smash, I had some great feedback from that blog post. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. In this post we are going to look at the player who is the servers partner. Picture the scene, your […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 10
Did you manage to read part 9 last week based on improving your volley technique, I had some great feedback from that blog post. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. In the part we are going to look at simple ways to improve your smash, specifically at the arm […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog : Tennis Crimes part 5
YOURS, YOURS !!!!! Hi everyone and welcome to part 5 of our tennis crimes series, todays crime is again one we see all the time on our tennis holidays and focuses within the doubles game and really highlights the importance of communication. So here’s the scenario, you and your doubles partner have attacked the net. […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 9
Did you manage to read part 8 last week based on improving your smash we focused on talking about the importance of the unit turn. People seemed to really like it. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. In the part we are going to look at the next key […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 8
Did you manage to read part 7 last week based on improving your volley technique, I had some great feedback from that blog post. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. In the part we are going to look at simple ways to improve your smash. As a doubles player, […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 7
If you have been away with us before, you are almost certainly going to have heard us talk about this. Steve’s family used to run a very successful double glazing factory in his home county of Staffordshire. We developed this technique to help improve your volleys while Steve was attempting to upsell some double glazing […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Top 5 Tips to Improve Your Matchplay
Using the skills you learn in practice and implementing them into a match situation is the toughest thing to achieve in tennis. A variety of factors can hinder your performance such as nerves, tactics or lack of confidence. To combat this we have put together our top five tips to help you unlock your […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 6
In the last blog post we talked about our 80/20 rule and ho it helps you maintain a good position, if you haven’t read it yet you can read it by clicking here. In this blog we are going to give you a few tips on how to move better at the net. This might […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Guide to Improving Your Doubles Part 5
Carrying on from part 4 last week where we looked at the three basic doubles position if you haven’t read part 4 please click here to have a read. This week I want to have a look at the one up one back situation.I think we all know that in an ideal world we wouldn’t […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: KIS Coaching – Improve your doubles Part 4
Did you manage to read part 3? We focused on the importance of finding the right partner. People seemed to really like it. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. Now that you have found the right partner and worked on the first ball (serve and return), it’s time to […]
Active AWay Tennis Holidays Blog: KIS Coaching – Improve your doubles Part 3
Did you manage to read part 2 last week based on improving your slice serve? People seemed to really like it. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. In the Blog we are going to talking about the importance of finding the right partner. Now we might not all be […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: KIS Coaching – Improve your doubles Part 2
Did you manage to read part 1 last week based all about the first ball we focused on talking about the importance of the serve and return. People seemed to really like it. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to have a read. Learning to hit an effective slice tennis serve may be […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: KIS Coaching – Improve your doubles Part 1
The most important part of doubles play is the first ball. The serve and return in doubles are the keys to success, and how you play these first balls will decide your fate. Our Tennis Holiday’s focus predominantly on doubles play, looking at key areas that you can take back to your club and make […]
Active Away Tennis Holidays Blog: Myths about Grips
We have had a busy time recently out in Turkey meeting loads of fantastic new people as well as seeing lots of friends that have been away with us previously. Today I am going to give you a few tips on how you can improve your set up. First of all we have to […]
