The infogram, on your right, outlines the key stages in a WBOP junior tennis player’s development.

If you are keen to learn more about the great game of tennis, find yourself a club and a coach.

Get involved in group lessons and/or private lessons at your club, make friends for life, and before you know it, you will be ready for Junior Interclub. 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.

Top juniors in Western BOP get the opportunity (by invitation) to join the Tennis WBOP Junior Development Pathway programme. 

Tennis WBOP’s selection criteria are based on the following:

• A tournament level player.
• Has a goal of playing Regional Reps.
• Ranked in top 10 for your age group in Western BOP.
• Showing technical proficiency at club level.
• Training towards playing Intra Regionals (or played previously) or TNZ Junior Nationals in a specific age group.

Tennis Western BOP further relies on club coaches to be the selectors and identifiers of tennis talent in our region and to put players forward for junior development trials.

The Tennis Western BOP Junior Development programme consists of 19 sessions per term – Development Squads, Representative Squads, and Fitness Conditioning Squads to improve technical/tactical tennis skills, body conditioning, 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:

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 junior development coaches, Erin Scott, in terms 2 and 3.

The following Girls On Court sessions for 2026 (Papamoa Tennis Club):

• 24 May
• 14 June
• 28 June.