Optimal Tennis Leeds

September Tennis Classes - Book Now

Premium Tennis Classes for Children and Adults.

Jump on court this September with our weekly tennis classes, high energy combining athletic development, technical and tactical skills as well as matchplay and constraint based games.

Classes at Leeds Trinity University and Woodhouse Grove School

Clubspark / Optimal Tennis / Junior Tennis Classes Looking for a fantastic indoor tennis group for your child in 2026, where they can learn to play and love the game? Join our group junior tennis programme at Optimal Tennis and give your child the best possible start in tennis.

Trinity Summer Camp Mornings start on Monday.

We are excited to announce 6 more morning camps over the next 2 weeks at Leeds Trinity University.

Our morning camps are running 9am to 12pm on the following dates:

== Week 1 - Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th August
== Week 2 - Monday 24th to Wednesday 26th August

For further information and to book the camps click the link,
https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/optimaltennisleeds/Coaching/Camps

Camp Equipment Ready - 2 weeks left at Richmond House School!

We are half way through our Summer Tennis Camps 2026.

We have limited last minute spaces available, if you would like to view the details and/or book at the link,
https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/optimaltennisleeds/Coaching/Camps

Great Resilience from Alex and Jai!

A tough match away at Skipton for our U11 team.

Despite singles defeats the boys showed great resilience and battling qualities to take a fantastic doubles win.

Great first season, keep up the hard work & Keep Getting Better!

Summer Camps now less than 2 weeks away!

We are excited to jump into a summer of tennis at Richmond House School with 4 weeks of summer camps from Monday 20th July to Friday 14th August.

A finalist in the Mumbler, Healthy and Active Kids Award, our create a high energy fun environment helping children enjoy their holiday whilst improving their tennis and making friends.

Our camps can be booked online at the link below,
https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/optimaltennisleeds/Coaching/Camps

If you need any further information, email [email protected]

Brilliant performances from our Young Guns as they pull off double Steve Backley Silvers.

In Yorkshire Team Tennis our 8 & Under red ball team , Theo, Max, Ralph and Leo competed in indoor sponge and finished an impressive second.

The Orange Ball 9 & Under team competed fantastically with lots of singles wins narrowly missing out on top spot to take a great silver.

Congratulations to orange ball stars Rafe, Sophie and Daniyal (making his debut) who all fought really hard and played some great tennis.

Onwards and Upwards, the future is bright, keep up the great work!

Enjoy Wimbledon!

Watch and learn from the best.

Berry's Squash all before them in the Family Doubles!
On a hot, sunny day at Leeds Trinity University, family doubles teams did battle.
Youngest player Sophie played some amazing tennis well supported by Padel God dad Ric.
Jai and Armadeep showed some great touches in their first outing in the competition.
Isaac and Mickesh played with power and precision narrowly missing out on the top 3.
Alex and Kerstin started slowly but roared back and would have taken the bronze medals if we had them.
Isa and Imran played competed well throughout and were just 2 points off a perfect score, narrowly losing 2 matches 10-9 to just be edged out into second place.
With consistency and placement, team Berry, Jack and Martin registered a perfect score to become Family Doubles Champions 2026.
A fantastic competitive season 2026 for Jack just keeps getting better.
A massive thanks to everyone who took part. A very evenly fought contest and some great tennis.
We are committed to providing as many competitive opportunities for players as possible and if you or your child are interested in starting tennis competitions, please get in touch.

Berry's Squash all before them in the Family Doubles!

On a hot, sunny day at Leeds Trinity University, family doubles teams did battle.

Youngest player Sophie played some amazing tennis well supported by Padel God dad Ric.

Jai and Armadeep showed some great touches in their first outing in the competition.

Isaac and Mickesh played with power and precision narrowly missing out on the top 3.

Alex and Kerstin started slowly but roared back and would have taken the bronze medals if we had them.

Isa and Imran played competed well throughout and were just 2 points off a perfect score, narrowly losing 2 matches 10-9 to just be edged out into second place.

With consistency and placement, team Berry, Jack and Martin registered a perfect score to become Family Doubles Champions 2026.

A fantastic competitive season 2026 for Jack just keeps getting better.

A massive thanks to everyone who took part. A very evenly fought contest and some great tennis.

We are committed to providing as many competitive opportunities for players as possible and if you or your child are interested in starting tennis competitions, please get in touch.

Competition in Tennis- can we help tennis be better than 4%!

A recent Mytenniscoaching podcast revealed the latest LTA figures on tennis participation and competition.

4m (million) children play tennis in the UK annually, between ages 4 to 16.

1.8m play tennis monthly and 0.8m play weekly, this is thought to be regular tennis lessons.

Tennis would therefore appear to be in a very healthy position in terms of participation.

The LTA Tournament website shows 32,500 competitive tennis players in the UK, so roughly 4% of those taking lessons, less than 1% of the 4m. To qualify this figure slightly the data relates to ages 9-16 (4-8 years old are not included) so the number may be slightly higher but probably not by much.

By comparison 5m children play football annually.

The major difference comes in the competition statistics where football has 1.8m regular match players, taking it to 36%, so somewhat better than tennis at 1% or at best 4%.

At Optimal Tennis we strive to place competition and playing the game of tennis at the heart of our coaching programme in a number of ways.

We have extended many of our classes from 60 minutes to 90 minutes to give children more time to play points and matches.

The progression through our system aims to be:
School Tennis - Group Tennis – Internal Competitions – Team Tennis – LTA Graded Events

We now have 7 teams and hoping to increase this in future years, U8, U9, U10, U11 Boys, U11 Girls, U12 boys, U14 boys.

We have 2 upcoming tournaments:

Saturday 20th June – Family Doubles Tournament – ideal first competition for young players

Saturday 4th July – Optimal End of Season Singles Competition

If you would like to get involved in any of these competitions, or would like to discuss your child competing in tennis, please email [email protected] or phone John on 07896636173.

We also encourage children to step into LTA graded competitions. This can be daunting at first as children playing in these often have considerable experience and play regularly. A suggested approach is if we can get a ‘mini team’ of 3 or 4 players to go together, they can encourage and support each other and embrace the experience together.

LTA graded competitions are the gateway to county and national tennis and are a great challenge to anyone wanting to challenge themselves.

The LTA website has filters allowing searches of tournaments within a set radius (eg 25 or 50 miles) as well as the grade of tournament. Grade 1 is the highest level, grade 6 and 7 are the lowest grade so a suggested starting point.

A link to the LTA tournament website is below,
https://competitions.lta.org.uk/find?DateFilterType=0&StartDate=2026-06-06&EndDate=2026-09-10&LocationFilterType=0&PostalCode=LS16+8LJ&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B0%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B1%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B2%5D=33&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B3%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B4%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B5%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B6%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B7%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B8%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B9%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B10%5D=false&TournamentCategoryIDList%5B11%5D=false&page=1&GradingIDList%5B0%5D=false&GradingIDList%5B1%5D=false&GradingIDList%5B2%5D=false&GradingIDList%5B3%5D=false&GradingIDList%5B4%5D=5&GradingIDList%5B5%5D=6&GradingIDList%5B6%5D=7&GradingIDList%5B7%5D=10&Distance=25