Padder Tennis NZ

That's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who participated over the past 6 weekends. See you next year! 🎾🌞🌊

We look forward to seeing you all down at Otaki Beach this weekend 😎🎾🌞🌊

With the high winds and stormy weather ⚡️🌬
we are postponing today's padder tennis event until tomorrow when we hope to see you all out there hitting balls at the beach courts again 😃🎾☀️🌊

Reminder : to wrap our summer series, we are holding a Fun Family Friendly Tournament will be held next Sat Feb 10 for singles and next Sun Feb 11 for doubles.

ALL ages and abilities!!

New World will be putting on kai, Beach FM will be bringing their sound booth down to keep the vibe real, prizes and give aways for all participants

Registration between 10am - 12noon both days 🕙

Cya there!

We're providing the Kapiti Coast community with a wonderful 4-court padder tennis facility located at Ōtaki Beach. If you want to see this site developed into a more permanent site, please sign our petition

Can you spare a minute to help Paul Grubi?

One of the many schools we worked with this year was at Windley School in Porirua - here are some Year 4 students on Day 1 of 4, having fun learning the grips and how to rally with their mates. The lesson plan was to see if the kids could start a rally using their backhand serve also! By week 4, the kids are organising their own tournament!

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S U M M E R S E R I E S of
P A D D E R T E N N I S

With the support of local businesses in Ōtaki - Small Town Big Heart, the Ōtaki Community Board and Kapiti Coast District Council, we invite you and your whanau, friends of ALL ages and abilities, to experience the fun of padder tennis at our first public venue outside of the school playgrounds.

On what used to be the Ōtaki Beach Skating Rink and events hub back in the day, and having sat idle for decades, this amphitheater-like and absolutely majestic setting is gradually transforming itself into a four padder tennis court facility, available to we the people.

With free equipment hire on all event dates, access to toilets, bbq facilities, the beach and kai for the first 50 players each day, could make Ōtaki a weekend destination for you this summer! 😊 ☀️ 🌊🎾

Thanks for all the support since we began our journey in 2019. We have run programmes in over 50 schools and will continue our regional schools programme.

Now that we have our new courts, we will explore the opportunity to develop a local business house padder tennis league next year.

Happy Holidays Everyone 🍌🥑🍍🥝

Christmas is a time for giving. 10 local Kapiti schools receive 1K worth of padder tennis equipment plus a morning tea session of doubles knock-outs 🎾 ☀️

Thanks to Pub Charity, the kids and staff at Paraparaumu Beach School received 4-weeks of Year 5-8 class sessions and new equipment!
We look forward to seeing your students representing at the Raumati Beach School Tournament in March next year..
Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!