Newbury & Thatcham Community Tennis

Adult Coaching

Whether you are a regular club player or a newbie to tennis, we have coaching sessions to accommodate the needs of any adult tennis player.

We provide a complete coaching experience for adult players and have a number of weekly coaching sessions to help you improve your game, meet new friends and improve your fitness.

Coaching sessions run throughout the year for 47 weeks of the year. Players can sign up for our weekly programme by taking out a Coaching Plan. Coaching Plans have been developed to help parents and players spread the cost of coaching in one affordable monthly fee, so everyone can enjoy the benefits of professional tuition.

Find a book a free trial below👇🏾

Overview

Tennis is great fun and is accessible to all ages and skill levels. But there are other benefits to picking up a racket and playing…

As well as serving up plenty of smiles, tennis is good for your physical and mental health. It can help lower body fat while improving muscle toning, strength and flexibility. It can even help you to live longer.

In terms of mental health, exercise is hugely important in maintaining a good state of mind. Playing a game of tennis will release those happy endorphins to help you feel great!

It is also a fantastic way to spend some time with family and friends and will provide you with the opportunity to meet new people.

We offer a complete coaching experience for adult tennis players and even offer a free trial session, so you can try a coaching session first. We offer group sessions at each level of play, including a range of courses, clinics and drop-in sessions.

Standards Guide

To enjoy tennis, players want to play with people of a similar standard.  We understand this and therefore have adopted a standards guide to help determine which coaching sessions are right for you:

Private Lessons

What better way to fast track your improvement than with a one-on-one coaching session – an hour (or two) just for you to develop those areas of your game most important to you!

Individual or small group coaching are a great way of accelerating your learning. Tennis can be a challenging game to master and group coaching is a great way to get started. 1:1 time with a qualified coach can help you improve your game over a period of time. Many players like to supplement their group learning sessions with individuals to get the best of both worlds.

Individual coaching with our coaches will accelerate learning, improve confidence, help master technique, offer opportunity to give your practice or group sessions a focus, and it’s a great workout.

You can choose to go it alone or you may wish to organise a small group (up to 2 players) or play with a friend to share the cost.

To book and for more information please contact us

Junior Coaching

Our junior tennis programmes have been developed in partnership with the LTA to help players accelerate their learning and development. In addition, we offer a complete schedule of after-school and weekend tennis coaching for players aged four years old and up.

Coaching sessions run throughout the year, including during school holidays for 47 weeks of the year. In addition, the programme breaks for Bank Holidays, Easter (one week), Summer (two weeks) and during the Christmas break (two weeks). This helps provide a consistent approach to learning and nurturing player development.

Players can sign up for our weekly programme by taking out a Coaching Plan. Coaching Plans help parents and players spread the cost of coaching in one affordable monthly fee so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of professional tuition.

Find a book a free trial session below.👇🏾

Academy Tennis

Are you looking to start playing tennis in the most optimal conditions? Want to improve your level more easily? Fine-tune your game before taking part in an official tournament? Or maybe support your child’s progress? If so, our Academy programme could be a good solution for you.

Our Academy programme is designed to stretch the most committed and able junior players that want to take their tennis to the next level. There are two different tiers of the programme, designed as the next step in player development, and is a natural progression away from the mainstream LTA Youth programme.

1. u10 Youth Academy (two, 1-hours squads p/week)
2. Development Academy (two, 2-hour squads p/week)
3. Performance Academy (three, 2-hour squads p/week)

Entry into the programme is invitation-only, and players must fulfil additional criteria depending on which section of the Academy programme they are applying to.

The Academy training program is personalised and tailored to the characteristics of each player. The programme focuses on each player by creating an innovative, customised training programme that will fit their training needs. Our Academy programme provides each player with a fun, inspiring and positive environment that at the same time infuses values of hard work, dedication, and self-discipline.

Our goal is to create performance tennis players and shape our academy players to be great all-around people.

In addition to the term-time training, we are also run Academy Camps during the school holidays. These are intensive 2.5-hour sessions designed to keep their development on track during the holidays and complement tournament play. These training camps are open to all players in the mini green academy, the junior academy and the junior squads.

U10 Youth Academy

Being part of the Youth Academy is the first step out of our mainstream programme into higher intensity squads, training twice per week (a total of 2/3 hours).

Development Academy

The Development Academy squads are aimed at players aged 11+ who are committed to their tennis and are committed to training and competing regularly. Players are offered a bespoke training package of weekly squad training and individual tuition. As a minimum, we expect our athletes to commit to two squads per week.

Performance Academy

Performance Academy squads are focussed on preparing players for the demands of regular competition and competing at a higher level. Players need to meet a minimum WTN and commit to training three squads and one individual coaching session p/week. Our coaching team will design tailored training sessions to immerse athletes in the day-to-day reality of high-performance training and competing. We aim to nurture players to feed through the player pathway to National Academies, Pro Scholarship Programmes, International Academies and US College Tennis.

Want to find out more? Feel free to contact us

Private Lessons

What better way to fast track your improvement than with a one-on-one coaching session – an hour (or two) just for you to develop those areas of your game most important to you!

Individual or small group coaching is a great way of accelerating your learning. Tennis can be a challenging game to master and group coaching is a great way to get started. 1:1 time with a qualified coach can help you improve your game over a period of time. Many players like to supplement their group learning sessions with individuals to get the best of both worlds.

Individual coaching with our coaches will accelerate learning, improve confidence, help master technique, offer the opportunity to give your practice or group sessions a focus, and it’s a great workout.

You can choose to go it alone or you may wish to organise a small group (up to 2 players) or play with a friend to share the cost.

To book and for more information please contact us

Holiday Camps

We run Tennis & MultiSportz Camps throughout the year during all of the school holidays. Your kid can participate in a range of sports and activities every weekday during the school holidays (excluding Bank Holidays).

Our camps naturally have a focus on tennis. Each morning our tennis team lead a morning of tennis, and the afternoon is filled with lots of other sports activities, including; Football, Tag Rugby, Cricket, Rounders, Basketball, Hockey, Soft Archery, Handball and more!

Our philosophy is to promote and inspire healthy and active lifestyles, which will allow them to develop their individual and team skills across many sports and activities in a safe and fun environment. Using our qualified coaches and expert staff, we have set up a programme to give each young person the confidence to play, learn and improve.

All of our Sports Camps are available to boys and girls aged 5-15 years. We offer full-day camps (9am – 3pm) or you can choose to book a morning tennis camp (9am – 12pm).

If you are a weekly coaching attendee and have an active Coaching Plan, we offer a 50% discount when booking. We’ve also got you covered with a 10% sibling discount.

Coaching Fees

Start out with a free trial session and then get access to our tennis programme, which runs for 47 weeks per year, in one affordable monthly Coaching Plan.

A Coaching Plan is paid monthly with no fixed-term contract, making it flexible and, most importantly, affordable! You’ll get priority access and a 50% discount on all tennis camps, competitions and events we deliver. To maximise your game, we recommend attending more than one weekly session; we offer a 25% discount on additional sessions.  The best place to start is to register for one or two weekly sessions online, and you can always contact us or your coach to upgrade to attend more sessions per week!

* A £2.50 one-off set-up fee is payable during registration.

Annual Venue Membership

After completing a free trial, it’s a requirement to become a member of the venue. Each venue has a different membership scheme, but all have a small annual fee that goes directly to the venue to improve and maintain the facilities to a high standard.

When you register, your welcome email will include information about venue membership, which you can purchase directly with the venue after your trial has finished.

If you have any questions about venue membership, please contact us.

Get in touch

Need to get in touch with the team? We’re all ears.

Safeguarding

We strive to ensure that all children, young people and adults at risk are safeguarded from abuse and have an enjoyable tennis experience.

Everyone who is involved in tennis has a shared responsibility to support this by promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.

Reporting a Concern

National Tennis Association (NTA) strongly advise people to read our safeguarding policies and to contact us should they have any concerns.

Safeguarding Policy

Diversity and Inclusion Policy

If you have concerns or wish to report anything, you can contact NTA on: 0330 511 9496 (Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm). For further enquiries please email the Safeguarding Team at safeguarding@nationaltennis.org.uk.