Introducing: The U15 Canadian Prospect Team

Earlier in 2023, Tennis Canada launched a brand new five-year strategic plan to reassert its ambitions for the expansion and improvement of Canadian tennis and chart a roadmap that can allow the federation to attain its objectives and guarantee sustained success for our sport.

Inside the plan, a slight alteration was made to the group’s “Imaginative and prescient”. What was beforehand “to turn into a world-leading tennis nation” was up to date to “to be a world-leading tennis nation”. On the floor, this small replace could seem minor or superfluous, however it represents a marked shift within the federation’s achievements and aspirations previously decade and shifting forwards.

With its first Grand Slam singles finalists (Eugenie Bouchard, 2014 Wimbledon and Milos Raonic, 2016 Wimbledon), champion (Bianca Andreescu, 2019 US Open), girls’s doubles champion (Gabriela Dabrowski, 2023 US Open) and a Davis Cup title (2022) below its belt, Canada can declare the mantle of being a world-leading tennis nation. The subsequent problem: staying there.

That tall job is the duty of everybody at Tennis Canada, not least its Excessive-Efficiency crew. A part of their plan to maintain Canada on the sport’s prime desk is a revamped U15s program which was mushy launched final 12 months earlier than being absolutely rolled out in 2023. The U15 Canadian Prospect Group is designed to assist monitor, monitor, assist and develop younger, promising tennis gamers ages 10-14. This system will assist gamers to transition to their subsequent stage of improvement by giving them higher assets to participate in worldwide competitors, holding nationwide camps to take part in, providing constant participant monitoring and assist providers.

“The U15 Canadian Prospect Group serves as one of many first constructing blocks for establishing our nation’s future tennis stars,” stated Jocelyn Robichaud, Tennis Canada’s Head of U15 Improvement. “It’s an important a part of our high-performance improvement pathway, and I’m very excited for this 12 months’s new cohort to get underway with the nationwide camps in Toronto and Montreal.”

Prospect Group members will likely be invited to 2-3 nationwide camps over a 12-month window, with all bills coated by Tennis Canada. To kick issues off with the brand new cohort of invitees, the primary  nationwide camps will likely be going down in October: first, the women’ camp will happen from October 2-5 at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto after which the boys’ camp from October 10-13 at IGA Stadium in Montreal.

The three principal goals of the nationwide camps are to foster a excessive efficiency and crew atmosphere, to judge and analyze key efficiency indicators to be able to set individualized goals, and to supply contributors with sport science and sport medication assist and schooling.

Along with on-court drills, practices and match performs facilitated by Tennis Canada’s Nationwide coaches, these camps additionally embrace extra off-court classes to assist gamers perceive the significance of on- and off-court traits and habits required to assist them attain their most potential not solely as a tennis participant however as an individual too.

In whole, 29 women and 36 boys have been invited to this 12 months’s U15 Canadian Prospect Group and will likely be participating within the camps. Total, there are 4 gamers from Alberta, 11 from British Columbia, two from Nova Scotia, 18 from Ontario, 30 from Quebec and one from Saskatoon:

Extra data the U15 Canadian Prospect Group might be discovered here.