A couple of the Yukon's most promising junior tennis players travelled to Yellowknife Monday to take part in a five-day camp.

Sophia Flather, 15, and Kieran Halliday, 12, will receive a combination of practice and playing time at the high performance camp, which is being put on by the Yellowknife Tennis Club.

"We have met a couple of the junior Yellowknife players when they came over for our instructor certification course," said Stacy Lewis, president of the Tennis Yukon Association. "If they are any indication, then Kieran and Sophia will have some players to compete against that are better than they are used to. It's going to be really good in that way."

The camp is scheduled to conclude on Friday and after that, participants will compete in the Boston Pizza Junior Tennis Tournament in Yellowknife, which will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The camp in Yellowknife is free for both Flather and Kieran as a way of including the Yukon's participation in the event. Lewis is also attending the camp and will bring back some insight to what the Yellowknife tennis program offers to its junior players.

The Yellowknife program has been well established for a few years now and includes a Level 2 coach, who is a permanent employee of the Yellowknife Tennis Club. The job of the Level 2 coach is to run the club's junior programming.

Lewis said there are benefits to having such a close relationship with Yellowknife.

"We are tapping into something that is already established," she said. "All the northern territories are facing the same sort of issues, so putting our heads together and doing things like this can really move us along and make it so we are not quite so disadvantaged when we go to those tournaments."