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Does the Junior Tennis Champions Center have the most progressive junior development program in the country?
Unless you are dialed into high level junior tennis, you probably haven’t heard of it, much less know that it’s located just up the road from The White House.
That’s the Junior Tennis Champions Center (or the JTCC) with it’s highly unlikely location in College Park, Maryland, nine miles northeast of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
In little more than a decade, JTCC players have won more than 50 national and international junior titles. Last year 37 players were ranked in the top fifty in the country in their age divisions. The year before an astounding 35 of the 124 players in the Super Nationals came from the center.
That’s one local center producing 25 percent of the elite national tournament players. More and more observers view the Junior Tennis Champions Center as the most progressive tennis center in the country. But it’s not just what the center has done in the 12 plus years of its existence, it’s how.
To investigate that I took a tour of the facility, and interviewed the staff, from the CEO to the front desk. I also had the chance…