In September, the KNLTB will begin the primary full vocational coaching for wheelchair tennis academics. The highest sports activities infrastructure for wheelchair tennis is skilled and the mixing with able-bodied tennis within the Netherlands is nice. The variety of wheelchair tennis gamers is rising, partly because of the many successes of wheelchair tennis gamers comparable to Diede de Groot and Niels Vink. With the brand new coaching, the KNLTB is responding to the demand for intensive, fully-fledged coaching.
The Netherlands is without doubt one of the finest nations on the planet in terms of wheelchair tennis. This was additionally evident final week at Roland Garros, the place Diede de Groot received her twenty second Grand Slam singles title. Wheelchair tennis is totally included in prime and leisure sports activities within the Netherlands. Increasingly associations are opening their doorways to wheelchair tennis. The demand for academics has elevated. That’s the reason the KNLTB will begin one thing new in September: vocational coaching to develop into a wheelchair tennis instructor.
The coaching to develop into a wheelchair tennis instructor is in some ways much like the coaching to develop into a tennis instructor for able-bodied athletes, however with further emphasis on the sport of wheelchair tennis. Jan Bunt, Lecturers Supervisor on the KNLTB: “I’m actually happy with this new coaching. This makes the Netherlands one of many first nations on the planet with a fully-fledged vocational coaching (KSS-3) to develop into a wheelchair tennis instructor. We’re already coaching wheelchair tennis academics, however via extra coaching for able-bodied academics; I’m very happy that we’ve got now developed a whole coaching course for wheelchair tennis gamers, which has been in demand for a variety of years!”
The coaching begins in September this 12 months, with room for 12 college students. Various prime Dutch wheelchair gamers have already registered for this coaching. This fashion, that data is retained for Dutch tennis.
All details about the coaching will be discovered at our web site.
