HOW IT WORKS

When teaching professional Ned Caswell was searching for ways to instruct his twin daughters at their home, he realized the junior players' love for mini-tennis.

MiniTennisCourt.com became the brainstorm.

"I got some of the (sponge) balls and when they were younger, we used to tap them back and forth and play the type of mini-tennis that everyone plays," explains Caswell. "I thought to myself, 'Wow, I'd really like to work on their strokes and their real tennis with the same concept.' So I just started experimenting with this ball until I came up with the exact dimensions of a court so that their strokes would react the same way as a tennis ball does on a regular court."

Caswell next scaled down the service lines to where they would mimic exactly to the regulation court.

When the calculations were complete, the Caswell family actually began practicing and playing regular tennis.

"We started using the mini-court a couple of hours every day. It totally changed my kids' strokes. Instead of hitting with a hard tennis ball that was really uncontrollable, they sponge ball allowed them to take full swings and still have control, and that's huge."

The nine year old Caswell twins, Samantha and Harper, were ranked No.1 and No. 2 in Tennessee while playing most of their tennis on the MiniTennisCourt.com court.

The court teaches players to attack the ball and take full swings, making it easier to develop a more aggressive style of tennis than you would be able to develop just playing tennis. For beginners, the court encourages longer rallies, which makes the process of learning more fun.

However, since the timing is exactly the same as tennis played on traditional courts, MiniTennisCourt.com opens the game to players of all ages and skill levels.

EQUIPMENT INCLUDED:

The MiniTennisCourt.com kit includes 1 fully portable net, 1 six-pack of mini-tennis balls, and pre-cut, pre-marked, non-marking lines which can be laid down by two people in approximately 10 minutes. Backstops are not required.
The sponge (foam) balls are similar in weight and have bounce characteristics of regular tennis balls.
The easy assembly and portability make the product valuable as a warm-up court at tournaments where practice courts are at a minimum.

DIMENSIONS

Maximum Court Size: 16 feet x 54 feet

The dimensions for the full size court are 16 feet by 54 feet but many people do not have that much space and they adjust the court for what they have and still love it. That way since the court is portable and they can use the full size in areas that have that much space and less when they don't.