Reminder we are now on break until January 10th!
/Happy Christmas and 🥳 Happy New Year! The only programming we will have is our Christmas Camp December 27-29th for green ball and yellow ball experienced.
Register now for our Christmas Tennis Camp - experienced players only for this camp! Click on link at the top of this page.
/Christmas Tennis Camp Registration
December 27th , 28th and 29th - Mills Field Tennis Courts
This camp is mainly for our middle school - high school aged experienced players to keep practicing thru the holidays!
Players will execute various footwork drills, point play and match play. The main focus is to prepare the student for tournament play, middle school teams and high school teams.
Tennis clinics start back today and resume as normally scheduled.
/We will announce a Christmas 🎄 Tennis Camp to register for this week! Check back soon!
Some pictures of Summer Camp 2021 - 6 weeks of tennis!
/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
Monday tennis camp canceled today- all classes
/We will do a makeup class this Friday same time and same locations for all classes.
Summer Tennis Camp UPDATE - 5 of 6 weeks now SOLD OUT!
/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!
Summer Tennis Camp registration is open!!
/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
USTA Junior Team Tennis has begun!
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SJTA Orange ball Team #1 - The Aces!!
We have two 8 & Under classes who have now passed their first level of tennis skills!
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Keep up the great work! You all have earned your first grip!
Christmas Tennis Camp at Creekside
/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
Hispanic Heritage Month - USTA→
/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
Summer tennis camp #6 is now complete. We will have a two week break and start back up at Mills Field week of August 10th!
/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.
Summer Tennis Camp #6 is coming to a close and is SOLD OUT!
/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.
Thursday tennis camp Wimbledon Whites
/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! 🎾
Re- opening of Saint Johns Tennis Academy & Summer Tennis Camps in FULL SWING!
/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
Summer Tennis Camp at Creekside High looking positive for June and July. Register now at www.saintjohnstennis.com
/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!!
