The Academy
The Herodotou Tennis Academy was founded by Demetris Herodotou, in Larnaca in September 2004. It was officially listed as a company in December 2006 and a registered member of the Cyprus Tennis Federation from January 2007.
Demetris started off by using the only tennis court available at the old G.S.Z Stadium in Larnaca for training his young players. Back in 2004 he had only four players, but The Herodotou Tennis Academy grew rapidly and now boasts 100 players, 30 of whom are national tournament players. The coaching team has also grown in proportion to the number of players and now comprises of three more qualified members.
Bearing in mind this rapid growth of the Academy’s membership and also the increased popularity of tennis in Cyprus due to Marcos Baghdatis’ achievements in professional tennis, a second court was acquired for the needs of the academy. This also gave us the opportunity to stage internal development tournaments at least once a year. However, this expansion is still not enough to satisfy our academy’s needs and we are now in the process of building brand new state-of-the-art facilities.