OUR PLAYERS

WHO WE ARE

Tennis 21 was founded by Tom Ellis and David Martins. As we have grown we now have two more coaches with us; Billie Jo-Taylor and Louis Durnell.

As Head Coach and Director Tom brings a wealth of experience to Tennis 21 including

- Director of The University of Bath’s Coach Development Centre; tasked with bringing the next crop of tennis coaches through their qualifications

- LTA Level 5 Master Club Coaching Qualification. This is the highest qualification in the UK and only 300 out 5000 coaches have this level.

- 10 years experience working in grassroots and high performance tennis

- Presented at the LTA National coaches conference on player retention

- Won Aegon LTA Coach of the Month 

- Won LTA National Education Award 2020

- BSc 1st Class in Exercise Science

- MA Merit in Coach Education and Sports Development

- Previous experience within leisure management, education and sales

You can reach Tom on tom@tennis21.co.uk

Louis and Billie are both Level 1 coaches who are currently enrolled onto their Level 2 courses and teach on the classes alongside Tom.

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT

Our goal is to bring as many people as possible into the sport by offering high-quality sessions at an affordable price while offering people a lot of flexibility as to which sessions they want to attend.

The three key words that we’ve discussed in terms of the “product” we want to offer are:

• Flexibility - people have a lot of different options with the sessions they can choose each week.

• Affordability - we want to make it as cheap as possible for people to access our coaching. This is particularly important for the people that are coming more than once a week

• Regularity - we want to encourage people to come more than once a week consistently. And will put incentives in place for this.

We don’t like hiding behind long contracts, so all our memberships are monthly Direct Debits which you can cancel any time.

OUR VALUES

Quality – be the best you can be on and off the court

Energy – radiate energy & passion for the game and physical activity

Progressive – always looking to improve, innovate and ask for feedback

Teamwork – moving forwards together and cooperate on court