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Introduction
Like mainstream tennis, Special Olympics Tennis gives athletes the opportunity to learn and perform a variety of skills that can be played throughout life.
In addition to offering traditional singles and doubles events, Special Olympics offers individual skills competition to allow athletes to train and compete in basic tennis skills. The development of these key skills is necessary prior to advancing to match play. These skills include racket bounce, "ups," forehand volley, backhand ground stroke, serve-deuce court, serve-advantage court and alternating ground stroke with movement.
Special Olympics athletes can also participate in Unified Sports® doubles events. Special Olympics Unified Sports is a program that combines Special Olympics athletes and athletes without intellectual disabilities (partners) on sports teams for training and competition. In Unified Sports Tennis, a doubles team would consist of one Special Olympics athlete and one partner.
As in all Special Olympics sports, athletes are grouped in competition divisions according to ability level, age and gender.
Competition Schedule
| Saturday, 25th July | Rest Day |
| Sunday, 26th July | 9.00 - 6.00 pm |
| Monday, 27th July | 9.00 - 6.00 pm |
| Tuesday, 28th July | 9.00 - 6.00 pm |
| Wednesday 29th July | Rest Clinic 10.00 - 12.00 |
| Thursday, 30th July | 9.00 - 6.00 pm |
| Friday, 31st July | 9.00 - 2.00 pm |
Car Parking
Athletes/Coaches: From their drop off point I the bus bays, athletes and coaches will proceed into the venue via the main entrance at the front of the venue. This is a very short walk, the surface is even and there will be no other traffic in this area at this time. The area will be marshalled.
Officials: Officials will enter the venue via the main entrance at the front of the venue.
Families: There is no guaranteed parking for family members, therefore most family members are expected to arrive at the venue by public transport. On arrival at the main entrance families will be directed to the Tennis Centre.
Spectators: There is no guaranteed parking for members of the public at the venue and therefore they will arrive at the venue either on foot or by public transport. On arrival at the main entrance spectators will be directed to the Tennis Centre.
Honoured Guests: There will be three allocated parking spaces reserved for VIP’s. From their designated drop off point, guests will enter the venue through the main entrance.
Media: There will be an allocated parking space for the media. From their allocated parking spaces media will be directed to the main entrance of the Tennis Centre.
Media: There will be an allocated parking space for the media. From their allocated parking spaces media will be directed to the main entrance of the Tennis Centre.
Volunteers: From their arrival point all volunteers will enter via the main entrance at the front of the building.
Catering
A range of hot and cold drinks and snacks will be available for sale at the school campus for the duration of the week on competition days. Opening times will be from 12.00 noon until 2.00 pm.
Competition Venue
Officially opened on the 18th September 2007, Knighton Tennis Centre offers tennis for all seasons and all players of all ages and abilities
Equipment/Uniform
Each athlete will be required to wear traditional tennis attire as stated in the ITF rules. Athletes must wear appropriate tennis shoes (non marking). Black soled shoes and running shoes are not permitted and any athlete wearing these will be prohibited from playing.
Head Coaches are reminded that competition uniform must comply with Special Olympics Rules on sponsorship (for details see SO Summer Sports Rules, Article I Section X – Commercial Messages (pages 33 – 34).
Each athlete must provide their own tennis racquet. Regulation tennis balls will be provided for competition and warm-up.
A re-stringing service will be available for the duration of the competition. It will be the responsibility of the coach to pay the provider directly for this service.
List of Events
The following events will be offered:
CODE | EVENT |
TNSING | Singles |
TNDBLE | Doubles |
TNMXDB | Mixed Doubles |
Competition Rules
The Official Special Olympics Sports Rules for Tennis shall govern all Special Olympics competitions. As an international sports program, Special Olympics has created these rules based upon International Tennis Federation (ITF) Rules for tennis found at http://www.itftennis.com/abouttheitf/rulesregs/. ITF or National Governing Body (NGB) rules shall be employed except when they are in conflict with the Official Special Olympics Sports Rules for Tennis or Article I. In such cases, the Official Special Olympics Sports Rules for Tennis shall apply.
For full details of the competition rules please go to:
