Tenacity's Summer Tennis and Reading Program, presented in partnership with the Boston Centers for Youth & Families, will be available for seven weeks, from Monday, June 30 to Friday, August 15, 2008 to youth between the ages of 7 and 15. Instruction takes place at neighborhood sites in Allston, Boston, Brighton, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Roxbury, South Boston and West Roxbury.

The program focuses on basic instruction, league play and the opportunity to participate in citywide competition at the annual Mayor's Cup Tournament in August. League play includes participants from tennis programs across Boston and is consistent with the team tennis principles of the United States Tennis Association. In addition to tennis, all summer sites include a highly structured thirty minute reading session during each three-hour block of instruction to help promote academic achievement. The reading program is in partnership with ReadBoston. The program provides the books and staff are trained in the practice of reading aloud to help make books exciting and accessible to students of all reading levels.

To apply and for more information, visit www.tenacity.org.