Training Tennis Together

The integrated development of athletes is a long-term process which has to begin at the early ages. The formal knowledge which athletes obtain during the process of their official education is important as are the knowledge and skills which they gain whilst participating in sports activities. Young athletes involved in tennis sports often put at risk their health due to the increasing pressure to achieve results even at the lowest levels of competitions. The ignorance of the basic principles of the training process - the frequency, the intensity and the duration, in combination with the low nutrition culture and the inadequate preparedness of the athletes according to their real possibilities increases significantly the pathophysiological changes in the body. The project aims at promoting the active networking between tennis sport clubs in order to enhance the educational role of the sports clubs, to share good practices in the field of Health Enhancing Physical Activity, and thus to raise the clubs' awareness and to improve their capacities to pursue new programs for the promotion of sport benefit for health and personal skills. The project partners are united for carrying out a special training program covering the culture of nutrition (healthy eating) and proper physical preparation/restoration; techniques and tactics for the clay court/grass court and analysis by video-materials. Within the framework of the project the partners will share different points of view, knowledge and experience, in order to consolidate the network foundations. New integrated program based on innovative methods/modules/tools will be elaborated to improve the training conditions and health prevention of the young tennis players. Through participating in transnational sport meetings foreseen during the project, the young tennis players will be able to gain experience and new sporting skills, to enrich their nutrition culture, make friends and learn to integrate in other societies.