Teaching Kids With Quickstart

Most clubs are now implementing use of the 30 foot or 60 foot courts to start kids. The Quickstart Method is very helpful in starting kids because it takes an overwhelming sized court and shrinks it to something more manageable. The 30 foot court places the net in the middle of the court perpendicular to the regular net, and the kids play doubles side line to doubles sideline. This is also good for putting more kids on one court, since you can fit 2 or even 3 smaller courts per side of a regular court. The next biggest size is the 60 foot court. The National Tennis Center has been one of the first facilities to implement using very faint permanent black lines to outline the 60 foot court. We use the regular net, but the other lines are a moved in from the existing white lines. In the above picture my students are serving from the 60 foot baseline with much more success. It's amazing the rallies we can get with the kids now that the court can be made smaller and more manageable.