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TENNIS AT LE PETIT ROC
Le Petit Roc is the perfect setting for a tennis holiday, whether it’s the whole family, the whole extended family! or an individual coming for a customised short break.
Your host, Bruce Evans, is a player and coach with a wealth of experience, from his days as a PE teacher in the UK system, through to his present teaching role in the “écoles” de tennis at Chalais and Aubeterre clubs, and playing role in local tournaments and team matches. Along the way he obtained the ECA from the LTA at Swansea in 1993, and the CCA from Taunton in 1998. His two young sons, Mathieu and Guillaume, have begun playing and Mathieu is presently involved in the Charente junior squads.
The main focus of the grounds at Le Petit Roc is its tennis court where guests can play, receive coaching, or even play out finals of the local Chalais tournament, as happened in July 2011! The court was completed in the spring of 2008, built by the Drapeau family of Royan, and is fenced at one end only, profiting from its natural surroundings to provide an open and relaxed playing environment.
What can I provide? Examples of the tennis holidays enjoyed here range from fairly intense weeks for adults of two hours coaching a day with matches organised against local players, or in local tournaments, to large family holidays where I have provided beginner instruction to separate child and adult groups. I am equally comfortable working with children and adults, with beginners, improvers and fine tuning good club players. Many guests have enriched their tennis by playing French club players either here or at Chalais and Aubeterre clubs, or in the tournaments at those clubs in July and August, for which I will organise the “licences” and entries. But you don’t have to play competitively or have coaching! Tennis is for everyone.
If you want an intense week of coaching and hitting it is better to consider April/May/June and September/October when the mornings are cooler and Bruce has more time. But the second half of July and the first half of August are perfect for those wishing to combine four or five hours of coaching with some tournament matches at Chalais and Aubeterre.
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