Imagine a girl who loves sport. She runs, she jumps, she laughs on the pitch or in the gym. She's active, capable, and growing. Then adolescence arrives — and quietly, often without anyone noticing exactly when it happened, she stops. This is not an isolated story. It is one of the most documented and least-solved problems in sport today. According to a UNESCO report on gender and sport, nearly half of all adolescent girls — 49% — drop out of sports participation during their

Tina is 25. She works a desk job, spends most of her days moving from one obligation to the next, and until recently believed that sport was simply something other people did. Not because she lacked motivation, but because she had quietly convinced herself that the moment to become “an active person” had already passed. Then she picked up a tennis racket. And suddenly, the story she had been telling herself no longer made sense. For years, tennis had existed somewhere in the

The Tennis4Women 2.0 team met in person for the first time from 6 to 8 March 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All four partners — ŠK Virtus, Tennis Club Lošinj Jadranka, Player Zone Tennis Academy, and Institute IMPACT — gathered for two working days to align on project activities, assign responsibilities, and confirm the action plan. With deadlines set and everyone on the same page, Tennis4Women 2.0 is now in full motion.