Junior Tennis Programs   

Rocky Mountain Tennis is proud to offer two junior leagues for youths and parents to choose from. The USTA Junior Team Tennis program, and our internal Junior Tennis league. Both programs offer distinct advantages to both families and players and we encourage you to review the material associated with each to determine which plan best suits your needs.

Rocky Mountain Junior Tennis League  

The Rocky Mountain Junior Tennis League is an inter-club only league for 9-18 year olds. Matches are played against other RMTA clubs in the S.E. Denver area. Players will not have an opportunity to advance to playoffs. The Interclub League features:

• Players practice twice weekly
• Practices are broken out by ability and age
• Matches are played on Wednesday afternoons
• All players from a community/club meet and play at the same location
• Weekly phone calls between teams verifying attendance is not required - those that show up play - those that don't are excused
• Parent captains are not required An RMTA coach will be at the matches to set the line ups and run the matches
• On most weeks, players will compete in more than 1 match
• Players of different age groups can compete with each other
• Players of different sex can compete with each other
• Parents are not responsible for entering scores into the USTA website
• Parents are not responsible for creating teams. Each community/club is a team

USTA Junior Team Tennis
The USTA Junior Team Tennis program is a national program ran for 8-18 year olds which culminates in the top teams in each division playing for local, and state championships. The unique characteristics of the program include:

• Players practice twice weekly
• Practices are broken out by teams
• Matches are played on Monday mornings
• Parent captains are required
• Parent captains must create and submit a team of 4 or more players of the same sex, age and ability level to the USTA by no later than 5/08
• Parent captains are required to attend a captains meeting held by RMTA
• Parent captains or another parent from the team are required to attend matches
• Parent captains are required to set a weekly line up of their available players and to call the opposing team parent captain to confirm available team members.
• Parent captains are required to enter their teams scores into the USTA database within 48 hours of a match
• Only 4 players will play each week from the team - extras will not play