An Osaka tennis center has been teaching children tennis and English at the same time for the past year in a bid to foster young Japanese tennis players who can compete with confidence on the international stage.
At the Kids English Conversation Tennis School, children gather in a corner of Utsubo Tennis Center in Osaka every Sunday to take tennis lessons in English.
The course started last year as a tieup between the Kansai Tennis Association and the English-conversation school NOVA.