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SUB-COMMITTEE FUNCTIONS

Competitions Committee

This committee agrees the Leinster Tennis Calendar for the year. It approves permits to clubs for open tournaments, considers applications for new tournaments and determines dates (which can be problematic) if different clubs all want their open tournaments on the same week. It is also responsible for rating tournaments, players ranking (points per round per event etc) and the introduction of International Tennis Number (ITN) rating system. 

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Junior Development Committee

This committee is responsible for:

1.  Junior Squad Programmes in Leinster:
Quality Professional Coaching is a key ingredient for squad success and this committee selects coaches and liaises with the Tennis Ireland National Development Coach to agree programmes. The Committee have a role in helping to identify potential but, in keeping with best international practice, selecting the squad players is largely done by the professional coaches.

2. Organizing Competitions:
  • two Regional Match-Play Tournaments (Spring an Winter) which give competitive opportunity to players at a time when there are no Open tournaments on the Junior calendar.
  • Under 18s Open during the Halloween Half-Term.
  • Under 12s Summer League during March, April and May.
  • Leinster Junior and Primary Schools League during the last term of the School Year.

3. Interprovincial Championships:

The committee, together with the coaches select the players to represent Leinster in the annual under-14 and under-18 Junior Interprovincial Championships. These events are held during the same week of the year (in August) and they are hosted in turn by each province. This committee runs the championship every fourth year when it is Leinster’s turn to be hosts.


4. Tennis10s Programme for players Under 10 (GREEN) , Under 9 (ORANGE) and  Under 8 (RED)

 
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Senior Development Committee
 

The focus of this committee is:

  • the development of adult tennis in Leinster, particularly at College level
  • and to select the players to represent Leinster in the Senior Interprovincial Championships.
  • Every fourth year this committee also runs the Senior Interprovincial Championships.

 

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Veterans’ Tennis Committee
 
This committee’s focus is on increasing participation in tennis for those who are no longer in the first flush of youth. Originally veteran’s tennis was for men over 40 and over 50 and for women over 35. As interest has developed the number of age groups has increased so today veteran’s tennis can include categories for men over 35, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70 and for women categories over 35, 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60. To manage tournaments with this number of age groups it is often necessary to split Veteran’s tennis into Junior Veterans (the three lower age groups for men and women) and Senior Veterans (all the older age groups). This committee also select players to represent Leinster in both the Junior and Senior Veteran Interprovincial Championships held annually. Twice in every four years once of these championships is held in
Leinster and this committee run each event.
 
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Disciplinary Committee

As its name suggests this is a committee that every sports organisation must have but one that counts success by how infrequently it has to meet.

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Constitution & Structures Committee

 

This ad hoc committee was established to consider and input to the Tennis Ireland proposals for new governance structures for the game in Ireland. Its work is now largely completed with the sole remaining task being the transposition into the Leinster constitution of matters arising from the adoption of the new Tennis Ireland memorandum of association.

 

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

The Council also has a number of activities that are managed by individual councillors outside of the committee structure. Among these is the Club Development Awards.
 
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