If you are keen to learn more about the great game of tennis, find yourself a club and a coach.
Before you know it you will be ready for Junior Interclub, and if you work hard and want to challenge yourself, play your first tournament and get yourself on New Zealand’s tennis ranking system.
Tennis WBOP JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT Pathway:
Tennis Western BOP’s mission is to create a nurturing junior pathway that provides opportunities for any junior player in the Western Bay of Plenty to play, compete and be successful in both tennis and life.
This infogram explains the key stages in a WBOP junior tennis player’s development:
Top juniors in WBOP get the opportunity (by invitation) to join the Tennis WBOP Junior Development Pathway programme. The programme consists of 19 sessions per term – Development Squads, Representative Squads, and Fitness Conditioning Squads to uplift their tennis skills and exposure to match play. There are 8x Development Squads, 3x Representative Squads, 8x Speed & Conditioning (fitness) sessions per term. This term’s development squads calendar for 2026:
| DAY | DATE | SQUAD | VENUE |
| Monday | 20 Apr | Development | Papamoa |
| Monday | 4 May | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 7 May | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Monday | 11 May | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 14 May | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Sunday | 17 May | Representative | Papamoa |
| Monday | 18 May | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 21 May | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Monday | 25 May | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 28 May | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Thursday | 4 June | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Sunday | 7 June | Representative | Papamoa |
| Monday | 8 June | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 11 June | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Monday | 15 June | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 18 June | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
| Sunday | 21 June | Representative | Papamoa |
| Monday | 22 June | Development | Papamoa |
| Thursday | 25 June | S & Conditioning | TGA Domain |
JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT – GIRLS ON COURT:
WBOP GIRLS on Court sessions are FREE fun-oriented tennis get-togethers, allowing girls/parents to get to know each other and build a supportive girls’ tennis community. Girls get 6x free sessions per year. Girls on Court sessions are structured clinic sessions, full of value, and are led by one of our performance coaches, Erin Scott, in terms 2 and 3.
The following Girls On Court sessions for 2026 (venues TBC):
- 24 May
- 14 June
- 28 June.
Tennis Western BOP Junior Player Pathway (PDF version).