ORC Tennis Academy

Letter to Parents

We were very pleased with the progress and excellent results that our Academy Players made this year. We feel that their efforts, combined with the addition of many new features and enhancements to our Academy program, made for a great year with significant improvement. We expect even bigger and better things for the 2008/2009 season!

The 2007/8 Academy was a very successful year. We maintained our Tennis Canada “Gold Level Tennis Development Centre” status, while sending off half a dozen players south of the border on US Scholarships. Our touring professionals, Kirill and Milan, continue to make gains on the road and to inspire our junior players when at home training. Both achieved career-high ATP rankings in the past twelve months. Our top two U18/16 players, Brittany Wowchuk and Vicky Sekely, brought home provincial as well as national singles and doubles titles. We boasted more Tennis Canada U10 and U8 NTC competitors than any other club in the country (8). As well, we will once again host the Metro Label U16 Summer Nationals August 1st – 8th, following up on last year's excellent event.

Of course, we continuously strive to improve the quality and experience of our program as we "raise the bar" for performance programs across the country. This year Academy players and parents can look forward to several new features and enhanced aspects of our program.

Enhanced features: New features: Download 2009-2010 Academy Brochure

Another Successful Year

2008/2009 was a very successful year for ORC’s Academy. We maintained our Tennis Canada “Gold Level Tennis Development Centre” status, while sending a number of players south of the border on U.S.A. Scholarships. Our touring professionals, Kirill and Milan, continue to make gains on the road and inspire our junior players when at home training. Both achieved career-high ATP rankings in the past twelve months. Our top two U18 players, Brittany and Vicky, brought home provincial as well as national singles and doubles titles. We boasted more Tennis Canada U10 and U8 NTC competitors than any other club in the country (8). As well, we will once again host the Rogers U16 Summer Nationals August 2-7/2010, following up on last year’s excellent event.

A significant part of our success this past season came from the insights gleaned from the Parent/Player Feedback and Evaluation Survey. Parent and Player feedback is crucial to our ongoing success!


We shall continue to improve our communication through the following: (1) the presence of the Academy Director as a “Roaming Leader” to ensure quality control throughout the whole program (2) the addition of Parent Education Seminars (3) the addition of a weekly electronic newsletter (“This Week in Tennis”) (4) enhancements to the Academy Report Cards and to Performance Athlete Annual Planning Binders and (5) the presence of our Academy news and results on the main hallway bulletin board.

ORC’s Tennis Academy has always maintained a close and nurturing relationship with Tennis Canada. This high level and quality consultative network includes regular visits from Tennis Canada’s Director of Coaching Development and Tennis Canada’s Director of Player Development. Additionally, our visibility and player support of key events and tournaments significantly contributes to the increased performance and results from our Academy Players.

In the areas of match play and in-club competition, we have added a Davis Cup team competition, hosted several other TDC challenge matches, added a Tour Squad Challenge ladder and had a record number of participants in our 3 George Carter Stops. In addition to these in-club events, we hosted over a dozen OTA sanctioned Progressive Tennis Events in U10, U8 and U6 categories.

Of course, we continuously strive to improve the quality and experience of our program as we “raise the bar” for performance programs across the county. This year Academy players and parents can look forward to continued features and unique aspects of our programs.

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