University of East London Homepage

Anyone for tennis?

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Tennis

Hot on the heels of the London 2012 Games, UEL is launching an exciting new tennis programme with the aim of ingraining the sport into university and local community life.

With support from the Tennis Foundation, UEL’s plans to establish itself as a university synonymous with tennis excellence will start in earnest from September 2012. 

UEL recently appointed a University Tennis Coordinator who will be responsible for developing the community programme.  Appointed until 2014, the coordinator will deliver a programme of mini tennis to local residents, and the increasingly popular cardio tennis for university staff and students. As part of the role, the coordinator will oversee the management of tennis players who compete for UEL in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) league. 

At the same time, UEL has also forged a partnership with local high performance tennis provider, WimX, so that the next generation of tennis superstars can be identified and offered the opportunity to have their talent developed and nurtured through UEL’s elite scholarship athlete scheme.

David Cosford, Director of Sport at UEL, said: “One of the abiding memories of the Olympics is Andy Murray winning his Gold Medal game against Roger Federer. Through this programme, we hope to discover the players with untapped potential who can follow in Andy’s immortal footsteps, and put East London firmly on the map as a strong breeding ground for world-class tennis players.

“However, we also want to make tennis accessible and fun to students and local people who perhaps have not had the opportunity to play the game before. This programme firmly complements our bid to become the number one university for sport in London by 2015.”

Details on the community tennis programme can be found here

For further information on the tennis scholarship programme, please contact Richard Buscombe on r.m.buscombe@uel.ac.uk

Notes to Editors

The University of East London (UEL) is a global learning community with over 28,000 students from over 120 countries world-wide. Our vision is to achieve recognition, both nationally and internationally, as a successful and inclusive regional university proud of its diversity, committed to new modes of learning which focus on students and enhance their employability, and renowned for our contribution to social, cultural and economic development, especially through our research and scholarship. We have a strong track-record in widening participation and working with industry.

Information for screenreader users:

For a general description of these pages and an explanation of how they should work with screenreading equipment please follow this link: Link to general description

For further information on this web site’s accessibility features please follow this link: Link to accessibility information