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GOTA Info The Greater Orlando Tennis Association – or GOTA as it is widely known – recently marked a major milestone by celebrating its 20th anniversary of promoting the game of tennis in Central Florida.

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Leagues The default layout of RokStories benefits from a new custom styling from the template, adding a vertical scrolling thumbnail list to the side of the main thumbnail image, providing a new possibility in displaying dynamic content.

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GOTA Tournaments Fusion has been expanded with MegaMenu features, ranging from the ability to group Child items inline, to being able to load modules / positions within the dropdowns, as well as extensive custom width controls.

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Orlando Courts Module Variations form the core of the stylistic individualism of Zephyr, with 18 style based suffixes: 12 Box and 6 Title Styles. These suffixes can be compounded together to an impressive 72 possible combinations.

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Sat, May 19, 2012

Greater Orlando Tennis Programs

  • Lessons and clinics for private and group instruction. Click here for our Adult Tennis Clinic schedule. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Tennis Central, our personalized game-arranging and event-organizing service. Last year we arranged over 1,650 matches for our members!
  • Challenge Court, a pickup doubles program that frees you of making reservations or finding an opponent. Just drop in and a member of our staff will organize fun, equally matched doubles games for you.

Local Weather

Cloudy

82°F

Orlando

Cloudy

Humidity: 56%

Wind: NE at 10 mph

  • Sat Chance of Storm

    88°F 68°F

  • Sun Chance of Storm

    86°F 68°F

  • Mon Chance of Storm

    86°F 70°F

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Tips for Beginners

New to the game of tennis? Check out these helpful Tips of the game.

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Footwork Drills

Are your legs exhausted after playing a match? Check out these helpful Drills of the game.

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Contact Info

  • Greater Orlando Tennis Association
  • 1000 Universal Studios Plaza
  • Orlando, Florida, 32819
  • Tel: (407) 555-55555

GOTA Information

  • The GOTA web site is aimed at attracting readers looking for information about tennis news, leagues, tournaments, events & happenings in the Central Florida tennis community.

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Tips for Beginners

1. Don't try too hard – whatever you do. Even when your coach tells you to do something it's not an order. What they are really saying is give it all your best and we'll see what happens. Even when you miss you get feedback as to what happened. How did that feel, how does my racquet face determine where the ball goes, …

We are so used to trying harder when things don't go our way. In tennis it usually doesn’t work. When things don't work, try less. Soften your grip and your muscles and hit average shots for a while. Do not try to hit good all the time (while learning new technique!)

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