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Clinic offer kids a chance to learn tennis techniques

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The youth tennis clinics at the Land O’ Lakes Recreational Complex, 3032 Collier Parkway in Land O’ Lakes, give players a chance to work on the basics and improve their skills.

The clinics are being taught by Karen Turman, a United States Pro Tennis Association instructor. The instructor also coaches tennis at Land O’ Lakes High School and has been the recreation complex’s instructor for the past 20 years. For more information, contact Turman at (813) 468-1047.

Coach Karen Turman, far left, has her two volunteers and students do a fun tennis ball toss in the air at the end of a recent tennis clinic she was teaching at the Land O’ Lakes Recreation Complex. (Christine Holtzman)
Eight-year-old Haliegh Rhymer, of Land O’ Lakes, participates in a drill. The clinics are offered on Tuesdays, for ages 8 through high school, at the Land O’ Lakes Recreation Complex, throughout the school year and cost $38 for a four-week session. Starting on Oct. 25, Thursday sessions will be added. This was Haliegh’s first time on a tennis court.
Eight-year-old Christian Quandt, of Land O’ Lakes, decided to give tennis a try, and is shown here jumping to hit a ball back to Lauren Hallauer, a Charles S. Rushe Middle School student. Hallauer is helping at the clinics to earn volunteer hours for the National Junior Honor Society. Coach Karen Turman can be seen on the far left.

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