{"id":986,"date":"2021-06-30T04:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetenniscentre.ca\/langley\/?page_id=986"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:25:16","slug":"the-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetenniscentre.ca\/langley\/the-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"986\" class=\"elementor elementor-986\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2eef1911 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2eef1911\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7009aed9\" data-id=\"7009aed9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-218e7da7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"218e7da7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 76.8554%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Our Story<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #ffffff;\"><em>The Tennis Centre was dreamed up and built by Larry Jurovich and a small group of tennis enthusiasts.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #ffffff;\"><em>Larry and his wife Heather grew up in the lower mainland and after years of working abroad in the tennis industry when they moved back to the region in 2009 they had a vision of developing the lower mainland into an international model of best practice for a tennis community.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #ffffff;\"><em>In 2014 our first facility opened in Surrey, in 2017 our second location in Coquitlam, and in 2021 our latest location in Langley.\u00a0 The Tennis Centre is proud to be home to 17 indoor tennis courts and 6 outdoor clay courts at our facilities along with all of the required support amenities and services. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">As we have created out home in BC, we continue to look for opportunities of growth. 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