What is JTT (Junior Team Tennis)?

JTT offers organized and coach-supervised team match play for juniors during the Fall, Spring and Summer seasons. Players form teams of 4 or more and compete against other local teams. Click here to learn more about JTT in NorCal.

Through supervised practices and match play with live, college-style coaching, students will gain valuable match experience, competition management techniques and team camaraderie that propel them to higher levels of junior tennis.

Anyone under age 18 with yellow ball match play experience can form a team or join an existing one. To join JTT @ PALY, you don’t have to be a Palo Alto High School student. We welcome students from other schools and other cities as long as they can make it to training and matches.

If you don’t already have a team, we will help to group you with others looking for team members as well.

2025 Fall JTT Program Information

Season Timeline:

• Pre-season training: August 11 - September 11

• Regular Season/Playoffs: September 12 - November 2.

• Sectionals: Nov 22-23 at Diamond Hills, Oakley.

• 18U (Boys) and 14U (Co-ed) travel league matches every Sunday at 4 pm, and 12U (gender-neutral) at 2 pm. All home games are at Paly or another court in Palo Alto, away games are elsewhere in the South Bay/Peninsula that requires parents’ driving support.
  

Player Eligibility & Registration:

• Players must be age-eligible throughout the season, which ends Nov 23.

• We’re looking to form teams at each age group (12U/14U/18U) and for each of the two levels below:

  • Intermediate: WTN 30 and above / UTR 1-5.9

  • Advanced: WTN below 30 / UTR 6+

• Free USTA junior membership required: Join Here.

• Mandatory participation waiver also required: Complete Here.

• Minimum of 4 players per team by the USTA registration deadline (8/17), additional players can be added to the team throughout the season.

Fees

• USTA registration fee: $33 per player for the season

• Match & team fees are $100 for each Sunday that you play, which covers court fees, league and team coordination time and on-court coaching during the matches. If you join a team, we ask that you also sign up for at least one Mon-Sat training session, in addition to Sunday matchplay. Sunday sessions are led by coaches from the Fruttero Academy.

• Monday, Tuesday, Thurs and Friday training sessions are $100 per 2-hr session with a 10-session package - register for sessions here. Otherwise drop-in rates are $125/session.

  • Mondays 6-8 pm (led by Fruttero Academy)

  • Tuesdays 6-8 pm (Fruttero Academy)

  • Thursdays 6-8 pm (led by Coach Tyoma)

  • Fridays 4-6 pm (Tyoma)

• Saturdays (9 am-12 noon, $150/session, led by Fruttero Academy) are unique days with 2 hours of drills/training + 1 hour of USTA Matchplay with in-game live coaching where players learn important game strategies and game management skills, and the results impact players’ UTR & WTN).

• Parents who want to get more involved can volunteer as team captains who will take care of team registration, coordination, court bookings and and coaching. This approach allows the registered team to only pay for the court fees for home games, at whichever location is reserved (3 courts required). All captains/volunteers must be Safe Play approved throughout the season. Click here for information on USTA Safe Play.

• Deadline: Please sign up and complete your registration of interest by Tues Aug 12, 6 pm as we need some time to group interested players into teams and submit the team roster to USTA by Aug 17.