Set players up for a lifetime in tennis by giving them the fundamental doubles skills to play and love the game. Designed to build your understanding of the core principles, this course will show you how to make doubles fun, engaging, and empowering. Through the pillars of roles, positioning, and teamwork, you’ll learn how to help players step onto the doubles court with confidence.

Principles of Doubles has been developed by Rob Smith and Lorna Woodroffe. Rob is a Level 5 coach and LTA Tutor who has coached players on both the WTA and ATP doubles tours. Lorna is a Level 4 Coach and LTA Tutor, a former Top 70 WTA doubles player, and has represented Great Britain at the Olympics.

On the course, you’ll;

·       Break down doubles into four distinct roles: the Server, the Server’s Partner, the Returner, and the Returner’s Partner.

·       Explore teamwork, positioning, and roles in doubles for players across all the stages of development - from Blue, Red, Orange, Green, and Yellow to Adults.

·       Take away targeted drills designed to develop specific skills for each of the four doubles roles.

·       Discover the principles of the British Tennis doubles system and how to make them meaningful for players at the beginning of their journey.

“If we want players to play the game for life, then we need to prepare them to play doubles, because it’s in the very fabric of our sport.”

Level 3 Coach 

Reasonable adjustments 

Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact WimX at the time of booking so that they can support you.

WimX Learning is an approved LTA Coach Development Centre delivering qualifications and CPD in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. We also cover East London and are responsible for the following London boroughs: Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham. 

Our organisation offers LTA qualifications at Assistant, Instructor and Level 3. We also offer official LTA CPD courses as well as First Aid and knowledge enhancing independent learning courses such as Mental Health First Aid and Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties. 

WimX Learning believe coaches are central to tennis success and empowering and supporting coaches is at the core of what we do. Our team of quality course tutors are also all operating coaches enabling our courses to be delivered by tutors with up-to-date knowledge and experience of the industry. Working alongside our hub coaching academy at WimX Tennis we are also able to place coaches to do their mentored hours within a vibrant professional coaching environment that provides for all levels of players. 

Our team care passionately about this industry and we will always do our best to support and advise you from booking to course completion and throughout your coaching development. Let us know your goals and it will be our pleasure to help you to achieve them. 

For further information please visit our website or contact us at courses@wimx.org.uk