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Tennis Europe & Lawn Tennis Association Present Europe's Premier Coaching Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jonathan Jobson
Zur Gempenfluh 36
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+34 97 768 3470
jonathanj@tenniseurope.org

06/11/08 - Tennis Europe has announced that the 2008 European Coaches Symposium will be hosted by the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain in London from 23rd to 25th October.

The event, Europe’s largest regular gathering of coaching and technical experts, will be held at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. Among the keynote speakers confirmed for the event are Carl Maes (LTA Head of Women’s Tennis and former coach to Kim Clijsters and Captain of Belgium’s winning Fed Cup team), George Goven (current French Fed Cup Captain), Pancho Alvarino (former Spanish Fed Cup coach) and Thomas Högstedt (former coach to Tommy Haas, Nicolas Kiefer and current coach to China’s women’s team).

Tennis Europe Chief Executive Officer Olli Mäenpää commented “This year’s Coaches’ Symposium is set to be one of the best yet thanks to the fantastic facilities and expert personnel at Roehampton. The LTA continues to make great strides and remains at the forefront of Europe’s technical and coaching communities so this is a great opportunity for coaches from all over the continent to see first hand what they are doing, and also to benefit from the experience of some of Europe’s best known and most respected coaches.”

LTA Chief Executive Officer Roger Draper said, “It is a great pleasure for us to be able to offer the facilities of the National Tennis Centre to help Europe’s coaches in this way. It’s also an important chance for our leading coaches to meet and exchange information with their European counterparts and I’m sure that much good work will be done during the conference.”

Around 80 representatives invited from Tennis Europe’s 49 member nations are expected to attend the conference, where some 40 British coaches will join them. The 29th European Coaches’ Symposium is the fourth to be held on British soil, where it returns for the first time since 1990.