Love tennis? Know something that could help other players, coaches or tennis clubs?
We’re always interested in hearing from people across the tennis community who have something useful, interesting or inspiring to share.
That could mean a coach with a great way of explaining the serve, a club player who’s learned a few lessons the hard way, a stringer who really knows their stuff or a volunteer who’s helped their local tennis club achieve something worth shouting about.
You don’t need to be a professional writer. If you’ve got a great tennis story, useful experience or knowledge that could help someone else, we’d love to hear about it.
You don’t need to be a professional tennis writer to contribute to Tennis Creative.
In fact, we’re much more interested in what you know about tennis than how many articles you’ve published before.
We’re particularly keen to hear from:
If you’ve learned something through years of playing, coaching, volunteering or working in tennis, there’s a good chance our readers could learn from it too.
Tennis Creative exists to help everyday players understand tennis, improve their game and get more from the sport.
We’re particularly interested in contributions covering:
Practical advice that players can take onto the court, from improving individual strokes to fixing common technical problems.
If you’ve found a particularly effective way of explaining or teaching something, we’d love to hear it.
Help players become smarter competitors.
Match tactics, patterns of play, singles and doubles strategy, court positioning and lessons you’ve learned through competition are all welcome.
Know your rackets from your replacement grips?
We’re interested in genuinely knowledgeable perspectives on rackets, strings, shoes, balls, equipment technology, racket customisation and everything else players use on court.
Training, recovery, nutrition, sports psychology, injury prevention and other areas that can help tennis players perform at their best.
For subjects involving health, injury, nutrition or other specialist advice, we’ll normally only accept contributions from people with appropriate professional qualifications or demonstrable expertise.
Some of the best stories in tennis happen a long way from Wimbledon.
If you help run a tennis club, league or community programme, we’d love to hear about what you’re doing.
Maybe you’ve grown your membership, launched a successful junior programme, raised money for new courts, introduced tennis to a new group of players or found a clever solution to a problem other clubs face.
We’re particularly interested in stories that other clubs and volunteers can learn from – but we’re also happy to help shine a light on worthwhile projects, events and fundraising campaigns happening within the tennis community.
You don’t need to arrive with a finished article, either. Tell us what’s happening and why it’s interesting, and we can work out the best way to tell the story together.
Not everything has to be a coaching guide.
If you’ve got an interesting tennis experience, experiment or story that other players would genuinely enjoy or learn from, we’d love to hear about it.
The best Tennis Creative content leaves the reader knowing something they didn’t know before – or wanting to grab their racket and try something new.
We like contributions that are:
Useful. Give readers something they can actually take away.
Based on real experience. We love first-hand insight from people who actually play, coach, volunteer or work within tennis.
Easy to understand. Tennis can get complicated quickly. Explain things like you’re talking to another player at your local club.
Original. We’re looking for your knowledge, experiences and ideas rather than a reworking of something that’s already been published elsewhere.
Fun to read. We’re all here because we love tennis. It’s perfectly fine for that enthusiasm to come through.
Don’t worry too much about matching the Tennis Creative writing style perfectly. We can help with editing, structure and formatting before anything is published.
Got a great tennis story but don’t consider yourself a writer?
That’s absolutely fine.
We’re just as interested in the story or expertise behind an article as we are in finding people who want to write one themselves.
This is particularly true for tennis clubs and volunteers. We know the people giving up their time to organise competitions, coach juniors, raise money and keep local clubs running don’t necessarily have another afternoon spare to write an article about it.
Tell us what’s happening. If we think Tennis Creative readers would be interested, we can talk about the best way to tell the story.
We’re happy to include links to genuinely useful websites, resources, tennis clubs and organisations where they add something to the article.
We’re also happy for genuine clubs and community organisations to tell us about relevant projects and campaigns. If you’re raising money for new courts, looking for volunteers or doing something else worthwhile within tennis, for example, there may be an opportunity for us to help shine a light on it.
What we’re not looking for are contributions created primarily as a way of building backlinks.
We don’t accept paid link insertions, irrelevant commercial links, affiliate links within contributed articles or pre-written SEO guest posts created primarily to place a link.
In other words: promotion can be part of a genuine tennis story, but it shouldn’t be the reason the story exists.
If you’re representing a tennis brand or business and are interested in product reviews, launches, sponsored content or another commercial collaboration, our Work With Us page is the better place to start.
Great. And please don’t send us a finished 2,000-word article straight away.
Tell us a little about yourself, your experience with tennis and what you’d like to contribute. A short outline of your idea is usually plenty.
If it’s a good fit for Tennis Creative, we’ll get back to you and take it from there.
If you’re a tennis brand, manufacturer, retailer, PR agency or another business looking to collaborate with Tennis Creative, this isn’t quite the right form.
Whether you’re interested in having us test a product, working together on a launch or discussing another partnership, we’d still love to hear from you.
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