Tennis Courses

A new training offer that aims to support individuals to activate (facilitate play) sessions in the sport of padel and gain important basic knowledge and skills for delivering padel. The course will focus on basics around padel as a sport, the role of walls, shot selection and court positioning and will also cover best practice for leading a session and feeding approaches.

Unit 1: Characteristics of padel
• Shot selection & Court positioning
• Introducing walls

Unit 2: How to activate padel
• Leading a session & feeding
• Practice feeding, game delivery

It is important to note that this course is an entry level award of one day and is not an advanced award in delivering padel.

Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact the LTA Coach Development Centre delivering this course at the time of booking so that they can support these.

Min Age: 16

This is an overview of the tasks required to complete the Padel Instructor Readiness Test. You will find more detailed instructions, including videos on how to complete each task, once you have booked on.

Please only do this is you are interested in doing the LTA Padel Instructor qualification.

Task 1 - Personal statement, up to 3 minutes

You will be in a professional environment and dressed in a professional manner (as a padel coach), and you will create a short video on your smartphone telling us about yourself and your motivation for applying. This enables us to observe your communication skills.

Task 2 – Demonstration, up to 2 minutes

 From a list of options provided in LTA Learn, you will demonstrate one common element of coaching that showcases your communication skills, padel knowledge, and ability to demonstrate sound padel skills.

Task 3 – lob feeding, around 30 seconds

Feeding is a crucial element of coaching. You will demonstrate that you can feed 5 balls accurately, with a chopper grip, as a lob shot. This will enable us to observe your feeding skills.

Tasks 4 - 7 – Live ball demonstration of strokes, around 6 minutes

Being a successful Instructor will require you to be able to demonstrate basic tactics and technique. These tasks enable us to observe your ability to demonstrate quality strokes, as well as your ability to hit/feed the ball with accuracy:

• Serve 8 of 16 balls correctly into court with the ball hitting the first glass panel.

• Using only one ball to rally, hit 15 shots down the line on the right-hand side of the court, including 6 off the back glass. The maximum time limit is one minute.

• Using only one ball to rally, hit 15 shots down the line on the left-hand side of the court, including 6 off the back glass. The maximum time limit is one minute.

• Using only one ball to rally, hit 15 volleys down the line on either side of the court, including a minimum of 6 backhand volleys. The maximum time limit is one minute

Great Group Coaching #3: 30+ Drills and Games to End Your Lesson

Overview Learn how to create and modify end-of-session games which challenge players’ tactical, technical, physical and mental skills.

Course description

Learn how to create and modify end-of-session games which challenge players’ tactical, technical, physical and mental skills. Player development shouldn’t stop when nearing the end of a lesson; discover how to get the best out of your players by weaving the four performance factors into fun games. Written by Nick Williams and Stuart Twigg, this course teaches you how to transform regular games and drills to be more challenging and purposeful. 

On the course, you’ll: 

• Learn how to create fun and purposeful games 
• Understand how to set up effective conditioned points 
• Learn different organisational formats to maximise players’ time on court 
• Familiarise yourself with how to apply feedback in the most effective way 
• Gain access to a catalogue of 30+ new drills and games 

30+ Drills and Games to End Your Lesson is for all types of coaches – new, experienced, and anyone in between – looking for inspiration on how to vary the end of a session. 

This is one of three Great Group Coaching workshops aimed at developing your capability of organising and working with players in a group setting.

Explore Great Group Coaching #1: Discovering & Driving Detail and Great Group Coaching #2: Repetition vs Realism 

Qualification candidates 

This is a valid elective module for the LTA Instructor coaching qualification. 

Venue:             Leeds Beckett University
Course Date:   27th July 2025
Time:               9.30am - 1.30pm
Course Fee:     £50.00

Venue:             Nuffield, Hull
Course Date:   14th December 2025
Time:               9.00am - 1.00pm
Course Fee:     £50.00

Great Group Coaching: Discovering & Driving Detail

Course description

This is the first course in the Great Group Coaching series.  

When watching tennis, a lot of the detail passes us by – even when we’re experienced coaches.  

Sign up to develop a ‘golden eye’ of observation on which to build your analysis and coaching interventions, so your players get better faster.  

Group Coaching is at the heart of all successful programmes. In this 4-hour CPD, you will learn from industry experts how to successfully organise and engage players in your sessions and programmes. This is the first course in the Great Group Coaching Series, a series purposefully built to develop your capability working with players in a group setting.  

 In the first edition of the series, you will: 

• Understand how observation and analysis skills form the cornerstone of successful group coaching.  
• Learn to use these skills to implement successful coaching interventions that will improve your player’s performances. 
• Explore the core structure of a lesson plan and the LTA Technical/Tactical Frameworks 
• Learn to deliver effective demonstrations.  
• Understand and apply SMART coaching practise.  
• Explore the concepts behind Stress-Testing and giving your players exactly what they need. 

This workshop is for all levels of coach who want to enhance their coaching skills and develop the observation and analysis skills that will allow them to give players the technical and tactical interventions they need. You do not need to have attended both editions of the Great Group Coaching series to attend this course, both courses work independently as stand-alone workshops.  

Qualification candidates 

This is a valid elective module for the LTA Instructor coaching qualification. 

Course Date: 3rd August 2025
Time: 9am - 1pm
Course Fee: £50.00

Leeds Beckett University

Course Date: 7th December 2025
Time: 9am - 1pm
Course Fee: £50.00

Nuffield Tennis Centre, Hull

Improve Players Faster with 4 Learning Strategies

Overview

Course description

Explore proven learning strategies that enhance players’ comprehension, application, and retention of new skills. 

 We all want to see improvement in whatever we do, and tennis is no exception – it’s one of the top three reasons that players return again and again to coaching sessions. Improve players faster with 4 learning strategies has been developed by Lorna Woodroffe, former British no.1 and Level 4 coach, and Chris Peet, Level 5 coach who worked with three junior national champions. 

 On completion of the course, you will: 

• Understand how to use errorless learning, scaffolding, external focus, and constraints-based coaching, in coaching to give players what they need. 
• See how academic research and educational psychology translates to practical, on-court exercises that yield rapid improvement in players. 
• Take away a bank of creative drills to apply in your sessions, as well gaining the knowledge to create your own exercises and drills. 

Overview

The 2025 Coach Forums are aimed at coaches with an interest in coaching doubles and helping players feel more confident when playing at the net.

By the end of the session, you will:

• Understand the importance of training net play in doubles early for children
• Be able to develop confidence in your players at the net and be ‘fearless at the front’
• Understand court positioning and how to cover the court to attack and defend at the net
• Understand ways in which you as a programme lead can address local coach shortages and recruitment challenges

Don’t miss out and book your place now. 

Date

YORKSHIRE - 4 November 2025 - 9.30am–1.30pm - Leeds Beckett University

Cost

£30.00

This course will run in a virtual environment using Zoom. The course covers how to safeguard children and adults at risk by enabling delegates to recognise, respond, refer and record concerns in a tennis environment.

**This course is for all Level 1-5 Coaches and Welfare Officers looking to either join/renew coach accreditation or to get the safeguarding pre-requisite. You will also need to complete this course if your last safeguarding course was the LTA refresher 'Safeguarding in Tennis Together'. **

This is currently a virtual classroom (equivalent to a face to face course) hosted via Teams.

You will be sent a Teams link via email the day before the course starts. Please ensure the email address on your LTA profile is up to date and that you check your spam inbox to ensure you receive the joining instructions.

You do not need to print off anything before the course but may need to write notes as you go along. A handout will be provided after the course.

If you have completed face-to-face safeguarding training within the last 3 years you can take the online safeguarding module  Safeguarding In Tennis Together to renew. Please ensure you book onto the right version, as there are role specific

The course will inform coaches of the specific impairment groups: Physical (Wheelchair), Visually Impaired, Deaf, Learning Disabilities, and Long-Term Health Conditions.

This enhanced two day qualification is ideal for tennis parents, enthusiasts, or keen players looking for the knowledge and skills to support group coaching sessions, alongside a lead Coach.

Learning outcomes include:

• Communication, organisation and differentiation skills for group coaching
• Basic tactical, technical, physical and mental development frameworks
• Other key assistant skills; from safeguarding to LTA Youth delivery.

Course Dates/Venues

26th January & 2nd March 2025
9am – 5pm
Leeds Beckett University LS6 3QQ

9th February & 9th March 2025
9am – 5pm
York St John Tennis Centre YO31 8TA 

11th May & 8th June 2025
9am – 5pm
Huddersfield Lawn Tennis & Squash Club HD1 5NF 

8th June & 13th July 2025
9am – 5pm
Graves Tennis Centre, Sheffield S8 8JR 

12th July & 2nd August 2025 (Wet weather dates 13th July & 3rd August)
9am – 5pm
Bridlington Lawn Tennis Club YO16 4LE

28th September & 26th October 2025
9am – 5pm
Leeds Beckett University LS6 3QQ

9th November & 14th December 2025
9am – 5pm
Nuffield Tennis Academy HU1 2TX

The new LTA Tennis Coach Qualification is an 11-day qualification, comprised of nine days Core Training and two Electives.   

If you want to make the move towards a career in tennis coaching, add coaching individuals to your repertoire, or just upgrade your coaching to the next level, this course is for you.   

During the course you will: 

· Gain a developed understanding of observation and analysis and learn how to use this to drive your coaching sessions. 

· Improve your players’ match play via match charting, statistics, goal setting and game-realistic drills. 

·  Study and practically use the tactical and technical fundamentals that drive coaching knowledge 

·  Understand the basics of Strength and Conditioning for tennis and understand how to implement them with players of any standard. 

·  Practically apply a framework that will enable you to better coach players with a disability 

·  Learn how to build a tennis programme, including how to develop yourself 

·  Take a deeper look at doubles coaching: roles, considerations, and patterns.  

In addition to the 11 days training, you will complete circa 43 hours of remote coursework: 

·  15 hours on a Player Development Project, improving a player over a period of 8 weeks

·  10 hours of Qualification Experience  

·  10 hours of online units and tests with Subject Matter Experts 

·  4 hours of demonstration and feeding tasks 

·  2 hours spent on the ITF online library of coach education  

·  2 hours on a Group Coaching Task