Aercap TI Junior Kids

aercap TI Junior Kids

TI Junior Kids aim is to develop more players from grassroots with good fundamentals by creating coach education support and to develop smart competitors by having appropriate competition for all.

Framework

The Aercap TI Junior Kids programme provides a framework for:

Competitions (appropriate competition for all);
Coach education & support (frameworks & pathways with practical content)

Objectives

The objectives of the programme include:

Getting children interested and excited about tennis from the start by creating a fun, player centred and effective learning environment
To increase the number of children playing competition by creating more appropriate competition for all
Develop good fundamentals through coach supports

Tennis Ireland would like to thank Sport Ireland for their support in this initiative through the Resilience funding received.

Local Tour

Introduction to tennis competition, fun and accessible (in your club). Most of the time kids will compete as a team and it caters for all levels of play with no serious scoring

Regional Tour

This will be a players first individual experience, The format will be non-elimination and last approx. 2 hours long, (in your region). Speak to your coach on whether your child is ready to compete.

National Tour

Round robin or compass format with a winner at the end. The National tour is for orange and green ball only. Orange and Green ball is a 3-4 hour competition and often runs at the same time as some of the National Junior events. Red Ball Open days are part of the National Tour with 1.5 hours of coaching and 1.5 hours of competing.

PERFORMANCE SUMMER CAMPS JULY 7-11 2025

Dates: July 7th to 11th

Time: 10.00-1.00

Venue: National Tennis Centre, DCU

Coaches: Tennis Ireland Performance Coaching Team

Places will be offered based on Coaches recommendations for U10s and by TI national rankings (week 19) for under 12s.

Places will be extremely limited.

Player passports

The player passport is awarded to players that achieve all the competencies below and are deemed too strong for their particular age group. The passport allows players to play in the above age group, with the exception of tour 100 events.

Players must be competing on their Regional Tour in order to be nominated for the National Tour, by the Provincial Officers.

Steps to gaining a passport:

Enter a Regional tour event in your age group
If selected, your provincial performance rep will put you forward to the AerCap TI Junior Kids selection committee for consideration for a position at the next AerCap TI Junior Kids National Event
You will be notified by email if selected
A passport assessment will take place at the event
If successful, you will be issued with a passport certificate from Tennis Ireland
A list of the passported players will be uploaded on the TI Officials portal
Tournament officials will only use this list when accepting players into draws

Key notes:

*Players must go through all the above steps to achieve a passport

*Once a passport has been achieved players cannot play events on their previous ball colour unless advised by the TI Junior Kids coaching team

*If a player is passported from green to yellow ball they cannot play in Tour 100 events

*Please find passport competencies and AerCap TI Junior Kids calendars below