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 Rocket Padel at the time of booking so that they can support you. 

Rocket Padel, Bristol is an approved LTA Workforce Development Centre.

Our organisation offers LTA Qualifications for tennis at Assistant (Level 1), Instructor (Level 2) and Coach (Level 3) Award as well as the LTA Padel Instructor. We offer a broad range of CPD courses for both tennis and padel coaches from the LTA Official Course Menu, as well as bespoke Rocket Padel workshops, where we engage with industry experts to deliver CPD to support coaches with their on and off court development.

At Rocket Padel we aim to create a fun, open, social community and provide a first class, inspirational environment for anyone wanting to play padel or tennis. We want to support coaches to develop their expertise, skills and achieve their career aspirations by embarking on the LTA Coaching Qualification pathway. At Rocket Padel, we challenge the norm to inspire coaches to challenge themselves and believe that there is always room for improvement. We aspire to be an innovative hub for everyone and everything that is padel and tennis and our team of exceptional coach education tutors are excited to collaborate with coaches across the UK to help them grow their businesses and inspire and motivate future generations to start and stay in the sports of padel and tennis.

For further information, please visit our website or contact us on Kathy.Howard@rocketpadel.com