131ST ANNUAL REPORT +FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2016-2017 Te Tenehi o Aotearoa 2 CONTENTS Board Chair Report 4 Participation Report 6 Participation Numbers 8 Performance Report 10 Coaching Report 14 Highlights 16 Reports from Affiliates 20 Tennis New Zealand Awards 26 Results 28 Rankings 32 Financial Information 36 Our Partners 50 Board, Life Members and Staff 51 3 2016 - 2017 BOARD CHAIR CELIA PATRICK // REPORT INTRODUCTION The last year has been a year of change, with some strong results along the way, pockets of great innovation and successes around the country and continued focus on the rollout of national programmes. It’s also been a year of people changes. Former CEO Steve Johns resigned to take up the CEO TENNIS NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT role for Swimming New Zealand. Steve left with our best wishes after six years at the helm, and having put in place some strong foundations and programmes upon which we will continue to build. We welcomed Simon Rea to the Tennis NZ family part way through the year, to head up the Performance Team, and lead a review of our High Performance Strategy and delivery. In addition, we welcomed incoming CEO Julie Paterson who joined us in July this year, and who brings a wealth of experience from previous sporting CEO roles. BUILDING STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE 2017 saw the end of the most recent strategic cycle for Tennis New Zealand. Our last strategic plan focused on the rollout of national programmes such as HotShots, the practices from around the country, along with surfacing coach development framework coach and community many new ideas. A number of strong themes developed play at clubs. These are excellent foundations on which through the process of engaging on the plan. They we can build for the future. Our progress against the included the need to review our delivery structure across targets set in 2014 is covered later in the following New Zealand, with different models (association and reports. regional) operating around the country. The need to The 2016-17 year has been a year of looking forward with respond differently to the continued decline in affiliated significant work undertaken in the development of a new members in tennis, a trend also troubling many other Strategic Plan for “tennis in New Zealand”. The work on traditional sports. Responding to demographic shifts this has enabled us to bring together people from across and busy lifestyles, the tennis community needs to work our tennis community to help focus on the priorities together on fresh approaches to enable more people to across our sport. participate in tennis in the way that meets their needs. And the need for stronger leadership and alignment of The new five year strategy is designed around engaging performance programmes across New Zealand, in order the efforts of everyone involved in tennis; from clubs, to grow future players who will be successful on the coaches and diverse tennis communities, to our Affiliates, international stage. Associations and Regional bodies, together with Tennis NZ. The new strategy has three broad objectives: LOOKING BACK ON 2016 - 17 Tennis New Zealand achieved a net surplus of $183, • Enable – supporting tennis clubs and communities to 598 (after depreciation) this year, and has been able flourish to gradually build its reserves over recent years, after • Win – New Zealand players are winning on the many years of difficult trading including several years of international stage deficits. The Board remains concerned that whilst the • Securing the future – tennis is financially sustainable and overall position has improved, our income streams still well governed at a national and local levels lack diversity and are vulnerable to one off events and The planning process drew out many great ideas and changes beyond our direct control. 4 “The last year has been a year of change, with some strong results along the way, pockets of great innovation and successes around the country and continued focus on the rollout of national programmes.” There was pleasing growth in our National Participation The Davis Cup team remained in Asia Oceania Group 1, Programmes, which continue to bring new participants losing a challenging first round tie to India in Pune, then into tennis. In the past year, more than 59,640 children staged a remarkable 3-2 victory over South Korea after enjoyed a Tennis Hot Shots experience at 293 primary being down two sets to one in the vital fifth match. The schools and over 200 clubs. 45 coaches offered Tennis home tie against Korea was notable for strong crowds Xpress nationwide in its first year, giving adults an easy that were passionate and vocal in their support of both way to get started in tennis. We piloted ClubSpark, a new teams. and exciting club/venue/coach management software ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that will enable deliverers the chance to broaden Thank you to the team at Tennis NZ, past CEO Steve Johns their appeal to a wider range of current and potential and the rest of the management team, and the Board participants; the project is now moving towards a likely of Tennis NZ. Thanks to GD Jones who is stepping aside national roll out in March 2018. at the conclusion of his term, and who has contributed It has also been a stand out for our tour players. A career strongly to supporting the high performance programme. defining year for our top doubles player Michael Venus I’d like to thank everyone involved in supporting tennis saw him win the French Open doubles title with Ryan around New Zealand – coaches, club and regional Harrison and achieve further success at the Estoril Open volunteers, paid staff, umpires, everyone across the board in Portugal. Venus has now reached a career high world who collectively show their passion and commitment to doubles ranking of 12 leading to direct entry to more tennis in so many different ways. We are very fortunate to lucrative ATP events. Artem Sitak and Marcus Daniel be part of such a passionate community and look forward continue to play well on the doubles circuit each making to another year growing tennis together. finals. Marcus Daniel joined Michael Venus to represent New Zealand at the Rio Olympics and they did us proud competing in one of the best matches of the tennis competition - eventually going down eventually going down to the seventh seeds Daniel Nestor and Vasek Celia Patrick Pospisil of Canada 6-4 3-6 6-7 (6) in two hours and three BOARD CHAIR minutes. 5 2016 - 2017 PARTICIPATION JAMIE TONG // HEAD OF PARTICIPATION AND COACHING Tennis New Zealand offers programmes and initiatives There has been significant development in club/venue which provide clubs, coaches, and volunteers with tools management platforms over the last four years leading to to improve the tennis experience for participants and as a the decision to take a more holistic view when looking to result grow the number of people playing tennis. introduce a national court booking/access system. This year shows a pleasing growth rate of 12% in overall The opportunity to assess the current and future recorded participation, this was the result of a 41% national delivery system needs of tennis will be one of TENNIS NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT increase in recorded casual participants and 13% growth the first initiatives we will be implementing as part of in Tennis Hot Shots and Cardio Tennis participation. the new national strategy. Running alongside this piece However, it should be noted that traditional club of work, a pilot of ClubSpark was carried out over the membership continues to decline (4.6% this year) last year. The planned replacement club management demonstrating both the challenge and opportunity system for Promato, ClubSpark, has integrated member facing clubs as the move towards casualisation of all sport management, court booking, website, and coach participation continues. programme management modules. The pilot has proved to be a valuable process to ensure the product is tailored TENNIS CLUB SUPPORT to best suit the needs of New Zealand clubs and coaches. Of the three initiatives aimed at aiding tennis clubs in the The planned implementation of ClubSpark will occur in 2014-2017 Participation Strategy only the court access the Autumn of 2018. system has been progressed through the Tennis Connect project. 6 A YEAR OF SUCCESS NATIONAL PARTICIPATION PROGRAMMES Tennis Hot Shots, Cardio Tennis and Tennis Xpress have been a real success story over the last four years. Since its introduction in 2013, Tennis Hot Shots is delivered in over 200 venues across the country with 80 head coaches using the programme resources to help deliver their junior coaching programmes. Looking forward we aim to further develop Tennis Hot Shots by working closely with Regions and Associations to introduce the programme philosophies into competition structures. The Cardio Tennis and Tennis Xpress programmes represent a great opportunity for coaches to broaden their offering to appeal to a greater range of participants. None of the planned initiatives contained in the Competition and Profile of Tennis focus areas of the 2014- 2017 Participation Strategy were carried out. This was due to a combination of increased time and resource invested into the national participation programmes and tennis connect project , and changes in the tennis environment over the four year strategic cycle. 7 8 TENNIS NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2016 - 2017 2016 - 2017 PARTICIPATION NUMBERS WAIKATO- REGIONS NORTHERN AUCKLAND BAYS CENTRAL CANTERBURY SOUTHERN TOTAL 15/16 TOTAL Senior M 1,414 2,210 1,598