The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra has recently hosted the 2010 Tennis Australia national tennis draft camp to identify and develop the nation’s best junior tennis players.

The best performing players at the tennis draft camp will be considered for selection as scholarship holders in the 2011–12 intake of the AIS Tennis program.

Twenty-three players from across Australia were put through a range of intensive skill and fitness tests to assess their ability and potential for making the transition to elite competition.

Testing and analysis of tennis talent at the AIS camp included:

• strength and conditioning
• body composition 
• musculoskeletal screening
• psychological testing 
• skills acquisition
• and technical analysis

Players taking part in the TA national draft camp included:

Boys

• Alex Bolt (SA)
• James Duckworth (NSW)
• James Frawley (ACT)
• Nicholas Horton (NSW)
• Andrew McLeod (QLD)
• Ben Mitchell (QLD)
• Mark Richards (QLD)
• Joey Swaysland (NSW)
• Todd Volmari (ACT)
• Jake Wynan (ACT)
• Andrew Zedde (ACT)

Girls 

• Kassandra Dunser (NT)
• Isabella Holland (QLD)
• Ashley Keir  (ACT)
• Sophie Letcher (QLD)
• Grace O'Rourke (ACT) 
• Ebony Panoho (QLD)
• Sally Peers  (VIC)
• Broke Rischbieth (SA)
• Storm Sanders (WA)
• Amy Sneath (SA)
• Ashling Sumner (QLD)
• Monika Wejnert (QLD)

The AIS Tennis program, in partnership with Tennis Australia, supports the development of talented athletes by providing access to leading coaching and sport science expertise and world-class training facilities, including newly constructed clay courts modelled on the French Open surface.