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The Founding Weekend  ·  September 2026

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The Founding Weekend.

Center Parcs, Woburn Forest
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 September 2026

The inaugural Courted event. A weekend of serious tennis, nature, and long unhurried gaps between sessions, yours to spend as you please.

The first names are being taken now
This list closes at midnight, Sunday 16 August

The Programme ↓

The Long Table on Saturday brings every guest together at one table. The Founding Cup on Sunday, played to a finish.

Arrive for the tennis, stay for the company.

Doubles partners meeting at the net

The Programme

Every ball counts.

Sessions run in waves, in small groups matched strictly by level, with a coach-to-player ratio built for real attention: not a queue for the ball machine. Eight to ten hours on court across the weekend, and the hours between waves are yours, for a one-to-one, the pools, or the forest.

Friday

From 4pm

Arrival

Arrival at leisure. First introductions, welcome drinks, and social tennis.

Saturday

All day

On Court Up to 6 hours

Tennis through the day for you to join as you wish, including drills covering serving, groundstrokes, net play, point building, and cardio tennis. Followed by competitive match play to put these skills to the test.

Evening

The Long Table

One dinner, every guest, seats drawn by lot.

Sunday

Morning

Brunch Tennis 2 hours

Everyone's favourite: brunch tennis. More drills, more match play.

Afternoon

The Founding Cup 3 hours

The closing tournament, drawn on the day and played to a finish. A trophy, a prize, and the photographs that will follow us around for years.

One-to-one sessions are charged separately, at member rates, and booked directly with the coaches on the weekend. The programme above is indicative and will be confirmed in final form by our head coach nearer the date.

How We Coach

No queues. No lectures.

Streamed by level

Sessions led by our three coaches: Nitish, Sal, and a third whose name we are keeping for the weekend. Deliberately small groups, streamed strictly by level, intermediate and advanced throughout.

Time on the ball

Games-based warm-ups, maximum time on the ball, and every block ends live: real points played from set scenarios.

One-to-one

Bookable on site between sessions: a full hour, one coach, whatever you most want to fix.

A coach talking a group through the next drill

The Details

One price.

Your place, all in

£575 / person

Based on shared occupancy.
A single room carries a £175 supplement.

Included

Three nights at Center Parcs Woburn Forest, with lodges ours from Friday afternoon through Monday morning
The full coached programme, eight to ten hours on court across the weekend
The Long Table, Saturday's dinner for every guest
Bespoke Courted kit, made for this weekend
The Founding Cup, trophy, prize and tournament entry
The pools and the forest, yours between sessions

At your own account

Meals beyond the Long Table
The spa and other activities, such as archery, badminton, boating and paintball
One-to-one coaching, at member rates, booked with the coaches on the weekend
Travel to and from Woburn; car pooling from London is being arranged

A deposit of £300 confirms your place, with the balance payable 14 days before the weekend begins. Places are transferable to another approved name; they are not refundable.

Worth Knowing

The setting, and the small print.

The village

Center Parcs Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire, an hour from London and a world away from it: 365 acres of forest, the pools, the spa, and the lodges among the trees. Explore the village

Come and go

The lodges are block booked Friday through to Monday. Most will arrive Friday evening and leave Sunday evening; some will come Saturday morning or stay through Monday. Come and go as your weekend allows.

Players only

The Founding Weekend is for players. Every guest is on court, every guest is at the table. Nobody watches from the side.

No strings

The Founding Weekend stands alone, with nothing further to commit to. Courted membership opens afterwards, and Founding guests hear first.

Players walking off court after a session

The Company You'll Keep

Chosen, never assembled.

Every Courted room is chosen, never assembled. Guests are selected for their tennis and for their company, so a weekend that opens among strangers closes as anything but.

This is the first of a calendar that will run through England, Europe, the Middle East and further still, and the people who play the first will always have first refusal on what follows.

The list is short, and has been considerately drawn up.

The First Names

Twenty-four places. No second run.

You are among the first to be asked. Your place is held for this group until midnight on Sunday 16 August. After that, the list widens, and what was held for you becomes open to the next names on it.

Register below · Your place is held · Payment details follow personally by email

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Registering holds your place while payment details reach you personally by email. Nothing is charged on this page. A £300 deposit confirms your place, with the balance due 14 days before the weekend; places are transferable to another approved name, not refundable.

Received. Your place is held.

Payment details will reach you personally by email within 48 hours. Until then, the place is yours, and we look forward to Woburn.