The LTA Tennis Coach Qualification is an 11-day face-to-face qualification, designed for those looking to take their coaching to the next level and take the steps towards a career in Tennis Coaching. There are 11 face-to-face days which are split into nine core training days and two elective days with a further four remote sessions.
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 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 approximately 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
Prerequisites for the course are as follows:
1) Have a valid LTA DBS certificate issued within the last 12 months (or be LTA Accredited) LTA DBS Checks
2) Hold the LTA Instructor qualification (or Level 2 equivalent)
3) Have a WTN of 22 or better for males or 25 or better for females or have passed the LTA Tennis Instructor Readiness Test Readiness Tests
