Eleven National Tennis Academy athletes are among a strong contingent of Australian players competing at an ITF tournament in Caloundra this week.
Sunshine Coast, Australia , 2 August 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Eleven teenage athletes from Tennis Australia’s National Tennis Academy are competing at an Australian Pro Tour event on the Sunshine Coast this week.
Chris Mahony, Head of the National Tennis Academy, believes the Caloundra International is a valuable opportunity for these promising players to test themselves against world-class players.
“These entry-level professional 15K events are really instrumental in the professional pathway, because you have this really interesting mix of some of our up-and-coming juniors that are looking for experience against older players,” Mahony said.
“You also get some of the players who have just exited from…