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Tennis

Male player taking a swing at the ball.
Coaching guide, rules and other materials for coaches.

Coaching Guides

Warm-Up and Cool-Down Guides and Videos

Warm-Up (PDF)

Cool-Down (PDF)

Warm-Up and Cool-Down Videos

Dynamic Warm-Ups and Cool-Downs are an important part of every workout, training session, or competition. Follow along with these videos to learn how to perform the different exercises in the sport-specific warm-up and cool-down guides. Questions? Please email fitness@specialolympics.org

Rules

Sports Essentials

Divisioning

  • Divisioning The fundamental difference between Special Olympics competitions and those of other sports organizations is that athletes of all ability levels are encouraged to participate, and every athlete is recognized for his/her performance.

Coaching

  • Overview of the Coach Development Model This video is an overview in English of the coach development model. It is about 4 minutes long. DOWNLOAD MP4
  • Coach Development Model Our volunteer coaches help Special Olympics athletes reach their best level of skill and performance. These resources can be used by Program sport directors to recruit and train coaches to reach their own heights of achievement.

Sport Rules

  • Sport Rules The heart of Special Olympics is competitions, the races, matches, tournaments and games for people with intellectual disabilities. In many ways, these competitions are like sports run by any other organization, but there are some key differences.
  • Sport Rules Article 1 The Official Special Olympics Sport Rules (“Sport Rules”) provide standards for Special Olympics training and competition. Sport Rules Article I provides general principles established by the Special Olympics Official General Rules (“General Rules”) that are not found in the sport-specific rules.

ITN Assessment Training Videos

How to Prepare the Courts

This video reviews preparing the court for ITN Assessment and the equipment is that needed.

ITN On Court Assessment – Level 2 Hard Court

This video reviews the on court assessment requirements and scoring on hard court that includes mobility, groundstroke consistency, volley consistency, and serve consistency.

ITN On Court Assessment – Level 2 Clay Court

This video reviews the on court assessment requirements and scoring on clay court that includes mobility, groundstroke consistency, volley consistency, and serve consistency.

ITN On Court Assessment – Level 3

This video reviews the level 3 on court assessment requirements and scoring that includes mobility, groundstroke depth, volley depth, groundstroke accuracy, and serve.

ITN On Court Assessment – Level 4 and Level 5

This video reviews the levels 4 and 5 on court assessment requirements and scoring that includes mobility, groundstroke depth, volley depth, groundstroke accuracy, and serve.
Tennis Lead

Tennis

This page draws together tennis-related information for all of Special Olympics. The coaching materials and other links will help you get a good sense of how this sport contributes to Special Olympics.