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 QuickStart Tennis is a new format to help kids ten and under learn and play tennis.  The format works by getting kids into the game immediately.  Within the first hour of stepping onto the court, they are actually playing the game, rallying with one another, moving around and having fun.  Scaling the game down to their size helps make the learning process easier and a lot more fun.

The majority of youth sports have followed this very formula for years.  Baseball begins with smaller bats, smaller fields and progresses from tee ball, to coach pitch, to player pitch.  Basketball and soccer also employ similar methods, including shortened playing surfaces and appropriate sized equipment.  That helps ensure that your kids' first experience in the sport will leave them overjoyed not overwhelmed.

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The shorter and narrower courts give kids the confidence and ability to cover the entire court.  Kids have trouble controlling full-sized racquets because they are too long, too heavy and the grips are too large.  Junior racquets are proportionate in length and weight and have the grips that fit smaller hands.  This makes it easier to control.   And balls that bounce at a height equal to kids ' playing abilities allow for better and longer rallies and allows them to build all-court games.

By being introduced to this style of play from the start, your kids will gain confience by seeing their own immediate progress, making them more enthusiastic about continung to play and improve.  QuickStart Tennis enables kids to have more enjoyable experience early on in the learning process and having fun is always a factor in keeping kids involved.