We LOVE tennis and it was so good to share the court with 154 players both beginner and experienced players ages 4yr - 19 yr old this summer.
Creekside high boys and girls squad - volunteers for our fundraiser camp
doubles on serve
gabi caught by surprise and handsome ethan - on court improving your game!
teen beginners
footwork/skills & drills - lots of feeding and hitting
I LOVE TENNIS!
8 & under tennis at mills field
We will do a makeup class this Friday same time and same locations for all classes.
Our Creekside classes for summer tennis camp are now FULL and CLOSED for all of the weeks except July 5th - 8th where we have 4 spots left in our experienced Academy class.
We still have some availability for 10 & Under classes at Mills Field but space is limited and filling up!
We will have 6 weeks of summer tennis camp located at Mills Field and Creekside High. Register now - space is limited and we anticipate it to go to capacity. We had 135 campers last summer!!
Academy singles and doubles strategy, footWork, conditioning, Tennis skills and drills
SJTA Orange ball Team #1 - The Aces!!
Keep up the great work! You all have earned your first grip!
December 28th - 30th RSVP only
Space is limited! Email reservation to hdiegan@icloud.com or text Heather 904-994-3376
All levels of tennis 🎾
Red ball 8 & Under 8-9 a.m. $50
Orange Ball 9-11 a.m. $100
Green Dot Ball 9-11 a.m. $100
Academy Level Yellow Ball 11a.m. - 3 p.m.
$175.
Skills, Drills, Footwork 11-12:30 p.m.
12:30-1 p.m. snack/lunch break (Wednesday will be catered)
1-3 p.m. Singles and Doubles match play
Please congratulate Daniella (Dani) Estrada in her recent highlighted article in USTA’s Hispanic Heritage Month. Dani has been with our tennis Academy since she was 9 years old and now is a Freshman college student at University of South Florida. Dani accomplished her Professional Tennis Registry certification to become one of our professional tennis assistants for Juniors 11-17 two years ago. She was recently highlighted in this article to celebrate tennis players hispanic Congratulations Daniella Estrada, one of our own PTR tennis assistants at the Academy has been highlighted in this months Hispanic Heritage Month with USTA.
Congratulations Dani! We look forward to your accomplishments on the tennis court as well as off the tennis court in college.
Dani Estrada, Emily Kastleman and Molly Wannamaker pictured here with their green dot group for summer tennis camp 2020
All my current SJTA tennis players should have communicated in this past week to confirm your commitment to stay in the classes you once attended before summer. I confirmed most everyone and now filling in new students to come into our Academy from summer.
Thank you so much to all our students, pros, assistant pros and Creekside High school for making our summer tennis camp so successful. Not bad operating thru a COVID pandemic, safety standards were kept and I know not once did someone report an illness.
We will keep our COVID policies moving forward with masks, temperature checks and COVID questions upon check in. We will keep our groups limited at Mills for social distancing.
What a great 5 weeks it has been working with the youth in our community on the tennis courts of Mills Field and Creekside High! We have now marked our 100th registration this week and we have had so many new players hit our courts ages 5 - 19 years of age.
Thank you so much for all of you who are our Academy tennis players who are so dedicated to get out there and develop and improve your game in this HOT summer heat! Thank you for all the new clients who have come in and allowed us to teach the LOVE of tennis to your child. We welcome you to stay with us and join us for the rest of this year and into the next. Yes! We practice tennis ALL year long. Enjoy some of the photos of our tennis camp these past 5 weeks.
Rain was in the forecast but not until after 12:00. Courts should be dry and we should get our camp done. Wear your Wimbledon White clothing today in our Academy class we are going to have a Dog Fight! 🎾
I am happy to announce the re- opening of our tennis program starting June 15th, 2020! We are going to kick off this great news after a long pause of quarantine since March 20th, 2020 due to COVID. Now that we’ve done some hard work in staying safe with our families and making lots of changes at home its now time to get out and hit some tennis balls!
Our academy has planned a 7 week summer tennis camp located both at Mills Field tennis courts and Creekside High tennis courts for the weeks of June 15 - July 30th. We are taking reservations online on our website with limited spacing due to smaller classes and social distancing on the tennis court. We will take contactless payments online by Venmo, credit card or you can send a check in the mail. Our pros have planned a fun camp where your kids can come and learn tennis thru games. We have classes that you can socialize with your friends in person and we have classes that can challenge you to play hard and get back in shape!
We will also offer weekly match play on Wednesdays for orange ball, green ball and have UTR - Universal Tennis Rating match play for our intermediate to advanced players on full court yellow ball. You can register for our UTR match at myutr.com and search for Saint Johns Tennis Academy.
Register now on our website and feel free to contact me, Heather Diegan, director of tennis, if you have ANY questions! 904-994-3376
Load and Explode
Frog Jumps in the Alley
Making pyramids with ball pick up and practicing our balance.
8 and under tennis with friends old and new - summer tennis camp week #1
We will have an 7 week summer tennis camp starting week of June 15th located at the newly renovated Creekside High Tennis Courts!! You can pick and choose how many weeks you want to attend which will include conditioning, footwork, group instruction, private instruction, match play for UTR. We are ramping up to have a great summer of tennis for juniors ages 5-19 year. Sign up now!!
Starting January 6th, 2020 the SJTA Tennis Academy will initiate a new “Players Fee” which will be a shared cost of all our students for the rising county court fees. This Players Fee will be collected quarterly from all our registered students.
All registered students from SJTA Players Fee will be $36.00/ student which will be charged January, April, July ($40/Creekside summer fee) and October 2020. These fees are on top of your monthly tuition cost but only paid in the months I listed above.
Please email me if you have any questions at hdiegan@icloud.com
Please register now for the upcoming red ball challenge which will include Saint John Tennis Academy tennis students and San Jose Golf and CC students for a fun, non- elimination, red ball challenge. We will have games, drills and round robin style of playing for all our red ball players. All levels are included!
You can register on our website under Fall/Winter Registration, fill in all the information and on the drop down menu select “RED BALL CHALLENGE”.
We will have a pizza party at the end of our event and a prize to take home.
Cost is $20.00 paid in advance of the challenge. Registration will close December 19th at midnight!
San Jose play Day was a success! 10 & Under players
We have concluded our 8 week summer tennis camp with our Summer Sectionals competition in Sanlando for Junior Team Tennis Championships. We are proud to announce that we obtained 2nd place in both the u14 intermediate and u18 intermediate divisions with our star players below. I am so very proud of the way everyone played in Orlando. Proud to be their coach and have these players represent themselves, their families and Saint Johns Tennis Academy.
2nd place winners
Orlando JTT Sectionals Championships - July 2019
U18 Ace Breakers - 2nd place vs. Team Miami Chiuhuahua’s
I LOVE teaching this class! I have 6 ladies from our community who have now completed my 12 week series of “Love to Learn” “Love to Play” These ladies are ready to start playing doubles and soon will be playing league tennis. We have tons of laughs and they are so eager to learn and play. It’s really a Mom’s Night Out on Monday’s with me. I understand how important that is now an “Empty Nester” mom of 2.
The Magnificent Seven !
It was a hot week but these kids are learning more about hydration and nutrition in which they can stay out in the heat and play tennis cooler with more energy!
We worked on serves and return of serves. Serve consistency is the first priority and securing a good “serve ritual” helps solidify that success. Serve placement, spin and power come after to make our serves into a fabulous weapon on court.
Working on return of serve is equally imperative with good footwork, recognition of a fast ball coming in and body position to get a good return in with recovery.
We had a Dog Fight on Thursday - below we have two new students, one of which literally started at the beginning of camp and won the bottom half of our competitive play! Olivia won our top half competition and earned her second Dog Fight shirt.
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