The club runs an extensive range of coaching through our coach, is a fully qualified LTA coach who has been coaching since 1991. His experience includes two periods of coaching at the Boliteri School in Florida during 1998 and 2002.
The club aims to encourage people at all levels ages and abilities, from mini tennis through to adult. Whatever level you are at we have something for you. Junior coaching -with 150 juniors in the programme, squads from development to performance level are run throughout the year in term time. Holiday courses are run in Easter, Whitsun and Summer for beginners.
Senior coaching takes place four times in the week for beginners up to team players, and individual one-to-one coaching is also available.
Our coaches can provide a range of racquets, tennis shoes, balls and accessories to members at very competitive prices and is one of the largest distributors in Bristol of Prince Racquets. A racquet re-stringing service is also available.
Adult Coaching sessions are extremely popular since over the past few years with people running such busy lives it is great to have some of ‘your’ time organised for you where you can come, enjoy yourself, and improve your game. Coaches offer free taster sessions for people who want to take up tennis. Descriptions of sessions are below, prices are in the table on the left of the page. For other tennis sessions see the Junior Coaching and Playing pages.
HIGH IMPACT PHYSICAL TENNIS SESSIONS
Every Monday night we run a session from 7.30 – 9.30pm at Kings LTC for people who have played before and are looking for some technical/tactical advise as well as a ‘burn’ at the same time. No need to book for these sessions, just turn up at the club at 7.30pm
MORNING TENNIS SESSIONS
These sessions are run twice a week on a Monday morning 9.30 – 11.30 am and Thursday 9.30 – 11.30am. Again, during these sessions, we work on many technical/tactical parts of the game. They are great fun and you are invited to have coffee after in the clubhouse.
BEGINNERS TENNIS AND “RUSTY RACKETS”
Every Thursday evening from 7.30 – .900pm and Tuesday morning 9.15am – 10.15am we run beginners sessions at the tennis club. These are specifically aimed at people who have not played before or the “Rusty Rackets” programme for those have not played for some time and want to get back into tennis. We look at the basic elements of the game where you gain in confidence and soon progress through one of the other coaching sessions run throughout the week. Do not be nervous about coming for the first time, you will be made to feel very welcome. Why not stay and have a drink afterwards as well.
BEGINNERS TENNIS AND “RUSTY RACKETS”
Every Thursday evening from 7.30 – .900pm and Tuesday morning 9.15am – 10.15am we run beginners sessions at the tennis club. These are specifically aimed at people who have not played before or the “Rusty Rackets” programme for those have not played for some time and want to get back into tennis. We look at the basic elements of the game where you gain in confidence and soon progress through one of the other coaching sessions run throughout the week. Do not be nervous about coming for the first time, you will be made to feel very welcome. Why not stay and have a drink afterwards as well.
It is worth contacting the coaching team if you would like to join one or more of the above sessions to discuss standard and see which one (s) would be the most appropriate.
Junior Successes
Our U12 Boys Team were County Division II Champions this year, so well done to Jamie Goodenough, Rory More O’Ferrall, Wil Patterson, Prashant Mistry and Oran Sendles for their hard work throughout the season.
The LTA has again awarded Kings Performance Accreditation for 2006 in recognition of the standard of players we have at King’s. Mini Tennis Accreditation has also been awarded for the next year together with some minor funding to help the development of the younger players.