Tennis in Weston, honestly
Weston has one of the more active recreational tennis communities in Broward — club programs, park courts, leagues and junior clinics that give kids plenty of places to play. If your child is learning the game or playing for fun, those local options are the right answer, full stop. But Weston is also a town of families whose kids are deep in organized, competitive youth sports — and tennis follows the same pattern as the others: at some point the ambitious ones outgrow what a general-purpose program can give. In tennis that ceiling shows up as group lessons that no longer challenge, no individualized development plan, and nobody preparing the player for actual tournament competition. Our guide to after-school tennis in Broward County lays out that ladder in full; this page is about what sits on the rung above it, and how far away it really is.
The drive east: Griffin Road, not a relocation
Weston sits at Broward's western edge, and Davie is the next town east — so this is one of the shortest runs to high-performance training any family in the county has. From most of Weston it is Royal Palm Boulevard or I-75 to Griffin Road, then east to Pine Island Road and the academy at 5850 South Pine Island Road: roughly 15 to 20 minutes. Against a school schedule the timing is friendly — training sessions are afternoons, so the eastbound run follows school pickup, and you are heading away from Weston's own after-school congestion rather than through it. Families in The Ridges, Savanna or Weston Hills are doing a school-run, not a commute, and that is what makes three, four or five afternoons a week sustainable through a junior career.
What competitive Weston juniors travel for
Three things, concretely. The ratio: Saviano trains at a maximum 4:1 player-to-coach ratio, with group sizes capped to protect it — the single most measurable difference from a general junior clinic. The individualization: Nick Saviano designs every player's development program personally, so a Weston twelve-year-old is not running the same generic drill card as everyone else their age. The tournament preparation: point play, strategy and pattern development, scheduled physical conditioning and video analysis, on both hard and Har-Tru clay courts — the surfaces the junior calendar and college tennis are actually played on. The full picture of the facility and staff is on our Davie page; the short version is that everything about the training is built for players who compete, not players who attend.
Which programs fit a Weston schedule
During the school year, the after-school program is the natural fit: competitive tournament players ages 9–18, Monday through Friday afternoons, 2.25 hours per session, from one to five days a week. Weston families often start at two or three days alongside their local club play, then add days as the player gets more serious — the short drive makes that escalation realistic. Over school breaks, holiday camps run Thanksgiving, winter and spring break as full training days. For the genuinely committed, the full-time program pairs Monday-to-Friday training with accredited online academics — and because the academy is a day program, a Weston full-timer still lives at home, twenty minutes from the courts, rather than in a dorm.
Try it before you commit to anything
You do not have to guess whether your child belongs at this level, and you should not sign up for months of anything to find out. The front door is the Saviano Evaluation: a benchmarking week inside the full-time group, finished with a written assessment of the player's level, developmental opportunities and realistic path — usable with whoever coaches your child afterward, even if that is not us. A holiday camp week works the same way as a low-commitment trial: five full days on the courts over a school break tells a Weston family more than any website, including this one. And before you decide anything, come stand at the fence on a weekday afternoon and watch a session — every program worth considering will let you.