GCS Tennis Academy and Tennis School

Grass Court Saga Tennis Club, founded in 1975, describes itself as the only natural grass tennis club in Japan, with 14 grass courts among 21 courts in all. The club set up the GCS Tennis Academy in 2015 to develop juniors for national and international competition, covering technical, physical, mental and nutritional work along with travel to ITF, Asian and domestic events. A tennis school runs kids, junior, adult and parent and child classes. Since 2005 the club has hosted the Grasshopper junior event, now a summer camp where young players from across Japan train and compete on natural grass, and since 2016 the Asia Junior Grass Court Tennis Championship.