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Proud parents. Our boy got top goal scorer for the season on 19 goals and they finished top of their league.

What a day Gleneagles Queens Course with Darren Nicol

World class facilities, company and….. almost the golf.

Thank you Gary for the invite 👌🙏🏻

New resource added to The Tennis Coach Lounge.

I’ve created a 16-page document exploring The Intervention Scale:

Sugar → Lemon → Lemon-Aid → Medicine → Surgery

It’s a framework to help coaches think more carefully about how they intervene, how feedback lands with the player, and when the moment calls for praise, encouragement, correction, a micro-stop or something more substantial.

The full resource is now inside the Lounge resource library.@

Link in bio to join.

It will be the best investment you make for your self development, your business and ultimately your players.

What an incredible day at the stunning

Both on and off the course is beautiful with the staff being so incredibly welcoming and helpful.

I hope to be back one day as it was a genuine treat 👌 ⛳️

Great to spend time with PG Tennis and Tom (no insta as he has too much sense and class)

Was great to work with the coaching team at the beautiful Putney Lawn Tennis Club

A proper tennis club in the heart of Putney. The vast majority of members walk and cycle to the club. A real community feel.

Well done to Nick Hatchett on leading the team so well.

What a club is. Fantastic spending the day with Matthew Healy and his players. Sessions on clay, hard and grass in one day 👌

Thank you for making me feel so welcome.

Another Senior Performance Course comes to an end. 18-months of hard work on and off the court with 18 great people all working hard for their players.

Shout out to Paul Brown who missed this module due to illness. You were missed and we wish you a speedy recovery.

Date night with 😍

It’s one week since I had the pleasure of delivering an on-court presentation at the coaches conference.

The title was Training Both Sides of a Tactical Theme

If we want the healthiest training environments then we need to focus on developing both sides of the court at the same time.

Better attackers need better defenders

Stretch that neutral phase so both sides are playing high ‘quality’ tempo with high thresholds.

Better servers need better returners.

In my experience we still see too many juniors taking pleasure in hollow wins on the practice court. Opponent makes a cheap mistake and the winner is happy. They should be disappointed their training partner makes a mistake.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with and the coaches. I hope they took something back to base to try out and make their own.

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