Appeti Tennis have a long history of coaching and developing tennis, we started in 1998!  We keep a detailed journal (blog) of our activities and achievements.

The blog also integrates with our extensive Flickr library to enable you to view and download over 26,000 photos we have taken over the years.

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2003

2005

2008

2009

2016

1998

2000

Eb Appeti started with a basket of balls and a simple goal, get more people, particularly children playing tennis.

The programme started in Hastings East Sussex at The Green LTC.

We partnered with Hastings Borough Council and regenerated 13 public courts and created the Hastings Community Tennis Centre.

Following on the success of the programme in Hastings we decided to expand our activities to East Kent.  We approached The Canterbury High School with a plan to promote tennis to the local community and build the towns first indoor courts!

A major programme of outreach tennis began in Canterbury with all the local primary schools taking part. In the first year over 3000 children from 27 schools received FREE in school tennis and the opportunity to play tennis on the outdoor courts at The Canterbury High School.  The opening of the centre is attended by MP for Canterbury Julian Brazier.

While the programme grew we began construction on the indoor tennis centre.

The Indoor Tennis Centre opened in January 2005.

During a coach attended trip to Scotland, Canterbury Academy pupil Ffion Newberry earns her first world ranking points and becomes our first world ranked junior player!  Ffion is also crowned Kent 18U Champion!

With financial help from the Tennis Foundation 2 additional courts are refurbished and given floodlights.

The centre is officially opened by the Mayor of Hastings and establishes itself as part of the local tennis scene, hosting competitions and playing in the Sussex leagues.

In partnership with The Canterbury High School we started a programme of Tennis and education for performance players.

The picture of the children below is the first group of juniors coached by Eb, this is the first picture ever taken by Appeti Tennis. Since this time Appeti Tennis have coached over 30,000 people!

The Tennis Centre becomes one of only 5 clubs/centres in Kent to be awarded performance accreditation by the LTA and is featured by ITV and the Sun highlighting its tennis and education programme and the successes it has brought.

For our 14th year in a row we take a trip of players to Wimbledon and this year will be our biggest with 22 players, coaches and parents!

2018

2020

James Davis has a bumper year, winning the Road to Wimbledon National Finals, gaining his first world ranking points and moving up to number 2 in the UK U14.

At the end of the year James moves home and joins the Academy in Bath having spent 10 year with Appeti Tennis from the age of 4.

2013

During the Pandemic the Tennis Centre had to shut for 6 months, however, when the Government highlighted tennis as a naturally socially distanced sport that was safe to play and gave people of all ages the opportunity to exercise with friends or relatives, our courts reopened and it was exciting to see an influx of players, both established and new, picking up their rackets with enthusiasm for the game.

2024

For the last 4 years we have been running a campaign to help underprivileged children in Ghana play tennis. So far we have sent 123 rackets, 7976 tennis balls, 775 items of tennis clothing and 114 pairs of trainers to Ghana.