The Eastleigh Tennis Academy at the Fleming Park Tennis Centre has been in operation since October 2006. The Academy has developed a strong reputation for effective talent identification, selecting the best natural athletes within schools sessions and offering them professional coaching programmes. Throughout the school year, our coaches deliver curriculum-time coaching to all children in Years 2 & 3 in 11 local primary, junior and infant schools. All children are offered a subsidised route into tennis, however, for the few children who show an exciting raw talent (usually around 2-3 per class of 30), we send out a personal invite to parents to allow their children to attend some free or highly subsidised introductory talent identification sessions.

As children develop, the Academy then presents players with the opportunity to develop their abilities through involvement in our coaching programme twice per week. Committed to technical improvement, each Academy player will want to play tennis competitively. As each player progresses within Academy groups, there is the opportunity to join our performance squads and to receive subsidised individual coaching.

Special Academy subsidies are offered to children for as long as funding allows. We also ensure that all children showing the commitment to attend 2 sessions per week receive a standard 10% discount on their group coaching fees.