Alex de Minaur was three years old when he began tennis lessons in the Southern Sydney suburb of Carss Park. “He just loved tennis and hitting balls,” recalls Cindy Dock, his first coach. “He was very easy to coach, he was very receptive. He’d do everything you’d tell him to do. He was a great […]
Sydney schoolgirls Violet & Patricia Apisah are being hailed as Australia’s version of US tennis phenoms, the Williams sisters. Born and raised in the PNG capital, the pair emigrated with mum Maria and father Patrick, a tennis coach, six years ago and are now quickly making their name on the Australian Junior circuit.
To me Australia in the 20th century was the land of the sports star. For such a small population, we had so many sports champions – hundreds, due to our climate and high standard of living and culture. Wayne Gardner Ian Thorpe Sally Pearson Cathy Freeman Ashleigh Barty Alex Di Minaur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_de_Minaur), Kerry was his […]
Tennis Blast has a solid history in the field of Tennis coaching reaching back to the 1970s when Australia was the leading force in world Tennis, and is one of NSW’s most respected professional Tennis coaching teams. It has been established since 1984 in Sydney and has been operating under the Tennis Blast banner since […]
1. Over 35 years experience at grassroots up to Grand Slam level 2. Tennis Coaches Australia & Australian Tennis Professional Coaches Association level 2 qualified coach 3. Former Men’s Champion of Western Suburbs (3 times) & Parramatta Baulkham Hills Districts in NSW, Trinity Grammar School (3 times), N.S.W. Chinese Tennis Association (8 times), Australian Claycourt […]
(both girls were coached by Tennis Blast and became no 1 in NSW in 2013 in their respective age groups and were awarded 2 x $200K scholarships each to Meriden Girls School Strathfield and helped the school win the title of the world champions in 2017 in Qatar) (note Alex Di Minaur, Australia’s no 2 […]
And my father Tam who passed away 3 years ago and who’s birthday is today AND MY favourite poem was “My Country” by Dorathea Mckellar. Here is the most famous verse. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, […]
Our programme of weekly training, camps and competitions for 7-10 year olds is producing new talents like Marc Kayrouz (7). Marc came runner up in his first local Strathfield competition on September 22nd, and now will play his first metropolitan 8 & under tournament in a few weeks. His brother Nikolai won the Nepean 9 […]
Alex Di Minaur is the 4th male player from New South Wales in the past 5 years to reach the top 200 in the world in international Tennis, see Sydney Morning Herald article 10/1/2018. He is now ranked #167 in the world but has defeated 3 players in the top 50 this month, so he […]
