Tennis

Tennis has grown from strength to strength over the last couple of years, and with the support of a PCA qualified tennis coach the school currently has an extremely strong squad of junior players. All tennis pupils have the opportunity to receive weekly coaching at the School throughout the whole year and further to our recent partnership with Gosling Sports Park (Welwyn) with its fantastic array of facilities some of our pupils have been able to make full use of their indoor courts.

Both the junior boys and girls have a busy fixture schedule during the summer term with fixtures against well known tennis schools such as Harrow and Westminster. Mill Hill also enters the well known school tennis competitions including the Junior Nestle, the Aberdare and Glanvill Cups and the I.S.T.A Championships (held at Eton). As well as this the majority of pupils playing tennis receive coaching and compete regularly in tournaments outside school.

Excellent results have been achieved over the last few years despite often playing against older opposition. For the past five years the girls have been area champions of the Barnet League in the Year 10 Nestle Schools Competition, and in 2005 the team reached the National Quarter Finals of this event. The boys’ standard is particularly strong in the juniors, with many of them holding high LTA ratings.

The teams have now started to go on tour; this was the second year that we visited the world renowned tennis centre, La Manga, in Spain where pupils received an intensive week of coaching and competition. We are also planning a two week tour to South Africa where pupils will have the opportunity to compete in the Cape Town International Tennis Tournament, and we will continue to compete against local UK schools.

For the last three years we have hosted an annual U11 Tennis Competition in conjunction with Gosling Sports Park which has attracted an entry of over 60 boys and girls.

With the strong intake of tennis pupils to the school over the next few years, tennis will continue to flourish at Mill Hill.