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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tennis anyone? [/quote]

I responded with tennis a few pages ago. We encouraged tennis because of the whole life-long sport aspect but DC is fed up with the whole scene, with hyper-competitive jerky kids and strict coaches who are constantly yelling and putting enormous pressure on everyone. Child still enjoys the game but doesn't want to play competitively at all anymore. I wish we had stuck to the group classes at the rec center and the summer league at the pool and avoided the indoor racquet clubs completely. Very expensive mistake.[/quote]

I'm the PP above you and rec classes is the way we went.
I had been involved competitively in tennis when I was young and disliked the atmosphere even then. I knew my kids would hate it. Right now, they have good skills but would never make any of our high school teams. DH and I regularly play with them and it's just been fun now that they have gotten better. It works for us. Can't put it on a college app, but that's fine with us.
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Echoing the PPs for recreational tennis.   I did play competitively in high school and started to in freshman year but quickly realized that I was way out of the running in skill level compared to the others and stepped back to playing for fun.   Which is the best.   Learned the basics at day camp, then played with Dad the next 25 years til he had to step back for his health, with friends, with DH  and on doubles teams at work events and retreats instead of golf.  Trying to get back into it now with my tween -- rec classes and the courts at the neighborhood park when they're not overrun by the pickleballers.       [/quote]

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