Dear Sports Friends,
Welcome to
our pages
and let me briefly introduce to you our club and its activities.
The tennis club Neride
was founded in 1995 after the secession of the best players and transfer of the
competition from the club Sokol Nucice. It became an extra-league club in 1997 by
fusion with the club TC Prostejov ”B”. Within a relatively short period of its
existence, the club has gained a stable position in the Czech tennis scene. Its teams of
all age categories belong to the best ones in the Czech Republic.
The club emphasizes the
training of young players and creates very good conditions for their progress. All teams
of the TC Neride play in the highest competitions in the Czech Republic and the
adult team members have successfully participated in the Extra-League of Teams for
several years. The members of the club include, among others, also such stars as the best
Czech female player Kvetoslava Hrdlickova or the Bulgarian representative Orlin
Stanoytchev.
The Club organizes a number of national and
international tournaments for young people, the most famous ones being the Jitex Cup,
which is an international tournament for the ETA Tour pupils to 12 years of age,
the Wilson Cup, an international tournament for the ETA Tour pupils to 14
years of age, and the Léciva Czech Junior Open, an international tournament of
the world ITF circle for juniors to 18 years of age. These tournaments provide an
opportunity for young players to collect points for European or world ranking lists. It is
to the club’s credit that the tradition of the tournaments still continues, which is
certainly good for Czech tennis. Besides youth tournaments, the club is a co-owner of the
male ATP Challenger with a grant of USD 25,000, which is held every year at the
turn of November and December. One part of the tournament is the annual prestigious VIP
Manager Open, which is one of the greatest VIP tennis events in the Czech Republic.
Dear Sports Friends, I deeply believe that the web
pages of our club will serve to inform not only the members of our club but also the
friends, backers, and fans of tennis, who will find what they need here.
Jaroslav Kalat
President of the Club
