Tennis-Depot, an authorized exclusive dealer for HEAD and Penn, announces their virtual grand opening event featuring free tennis lessons and over $1000 in prizes.

Santa Barbara, CA, Wednesday – July 06, 2011 — The official virtual grand opening event of recently launched online tennis pro store http://www.tennis-depot.com is scheduled for 1pm Pacific Time on Thursday, July 7th, 2011. Tennis-Depot is offering tennis services and is an authorized exclusive dealer for HEAD/Penn for tennis racquets, tennis shoes, balls and tennis bags.

In association with Santa Barbara’s top-performance Oceanside Tennis Academy, the new online pro-shop is inviting tennis players, coaches, parents and friends to visit us and provide their support.

Everyone that visits www.tennis-depot.com before the Grand Opening and 1) “Like”s it and 2) subscribes for the Virtual Tennis Academy newsletter, will be eligible for the draw of $1,000+ in promotional prizes provided by Oceanside Tennis Academy:

* 40 Gift Certificates of $15
* 15 Gift Certificates of $30
* 03 Gift Certificates of $40

The first 30 people that also forward/share with their friends the Facebook event notification (just remember to include Tennis-Depot as well) will be guaranteed to receive a Gift Certificate.

In addition, every local resident to Santa Barbara and Ventura counties that “Like”s Tennis-Depot Facebook Social Shop and Oceanside Tennis Academy fan page, can submit a $0 order for a FREE Private/Semi-Private Lesson with the tennis academy.

Dimitar Yazadzhiev, co-founder of Tennis-Depot and owner and tennis director of Oceanside Tennis Academy said, “I am very excited about the prospect of extending our tennis academy services to include the online offering of specialized tennis programs, like camps, college placement and video analysis, combined with top-quality tennis equipment for intermediate and advanced tennis players. We are a very motivated and expert team of professionals that love the game of tennis…so that is a great next step for us.”

Dimitar is USPTR Professional, USRSA Master Racquet Technician, and USTA Competition Training Center (CTC) Head Coach for Ventura/Santa Barbara. He has been coaching at the top professional level and working with some of the top-ranked national and international junior players for almost 20 years now. He graduated from the prestigious Bulgarian National Sports Academy with a master’s degree in Physical Education and Sports Management with specialization in Tennis. Before founding of Oceanside Tennis Academy in 2009, he was the Head Coach of Weil Tennis Academy in Ojai, CA for 10 years, coach at the Maleeva Tennis Academy, and tournament director for the Bulgarian Tennis Federation.

For all customers that subscribe to tennis-depot.com knowledge center newsletter, Tennis-Depot will offer a series of virtual tennis lessons that combine the theory, best practices and decades of playing and coaching experience. The first sequence of 12 virtual tennis lessons is called “Enhancing the Basics,” and it will provide valuable information for every competitive player to be able to identify and improve some of the very fundamental technical and tactical elements of their technique and their game.

Of great benefit for the customers there will be the comprehensive information on “How to Select a Tennis Racquet”, “How to Select Tennis Shoes”, “How to Select Racquet Strings” and “How to Select a Tennis Bag”.

Tennis-Depot.com launch also coincides with Novak Djokovic (playing with HEAD YouTek IG Speed – http://www.tennis-depot.com/categories/HEAD-Tennis-Racquets/YouTek-IG-Speed) becoming the Wimbledon champion and ATP World No.1 player and the official worldwide launch and availability for pre-sale of HEAD YouTek™ IG Instinct ( http://www.tennis-depot.com/categories/HEAD-Tennis-Racquets/YouTek-IG-Instinct/ ) line of tennis racquets (Maria Sharapova and Tomas Berdych new weapon of choice).

The store also carries the newest HEAD Speed Pro and Prestige Pro II Tennis Shoes, Djokovic & Murray signature series tennis bags, as well as the HEAD Wimbledon 2011 Limited Edition Monstercombi Tennis Bag.

For more information or to contact us you can go to http://tennis-depot.com or call at 805-746-3644.

Tennis-Depot (http://tennis-depot.com) is California-based company that specializes in online tennis services and promotion and sale of high-performance tennis equipment by HEAD and Penn.

Oceanside Tennis Academy (http://sbschooloftennis.com) is a high-performance tennis school, located within Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara, California that offers tennis camps, clinics, private lessons and training for intermediate to advanced local, state, national and international tennis players.

Press & Media Contact:
Lubo Bojilov
Tennis-Depot
624 North La Cumbre Rd
Santa Barbara, CA 93110 – USA
805-746-3644
contact@tennis-depot.com
http://www.tennis-depot.com