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 The Coach Lab at the time of booking so that they can support you. 

The Coach Lab is an approved LTA Workforce Development Centre. 

Our organisation offers LTA qualifications at Assistant, Instructor and Coach. We also offer CPD courses for coaches from the LTA Official Course Menu as well as bespoke mentoring and CPD opportunities for clubs, coaching teams and individuals. 

The Coach Lab aims to create a collaborative community for coaches to begin and develop their coaching careers with expert and dedicated support. We aim to make coach development, accessible, affordable and of the highest quality. Driving standards, building partnerships and developing genuine High Performing Coaches to support the continuous growth of our great game. 

The Coach Lab is a collective of world class tutors and support headed up by Stuart Twigg. With a genuine track record in developing and supporting coaches from day 1 of their coaching careers to running outstanding programmes worldwide. We know the tennis and Padel industry and can provide detailed guidance and help for you to succeed.

It’s simple…EVERYONE is invited.

For further information, please visit our website or contact us on info@thecoachlab.co.uk