The 2025 Coach Forums are aimed at coaches with an interest in coaching doubles and helping players feel more confident when playing at the net.

By the end of the session, you will:

• Understand the importance of training net play in doubles early for children
• Be able to develop confidence in your players at the net and be ‘fearless at the front’
• Understand court positioning and how to cover the court to attack and defend at the net
• Understand ways in which you as a programme lead can address local coach shortages and recruitment challenges

On-court session (2 hours 30 minutes)

Designed to take you through the benefits of coaching doubles net play with players at a young age, you'll learn how to help them build confidence coming forward and become more aware of their positioning and court coverage. You will practise exercises and drills at the net that are relevant to all stages of a player’s development journey, ensuring your players are having fun and all active whilst encouraging decision making, aligning to the LTA Youth principles. This will help your players be ‘fearless at the front’, whether in an attacking position covering your territory, or in a defensive phase covering the middle. The session has been developed in collaboration with Rob Smith, LTA Accredited Level 5 Master Performance Coach, LTA Coach Mentor and coach to players from LTA Youth red to ITF juniors, top 100 WTA, Davis Cup and Grand Slam-winning Champions.

Off-court session (1 hour)

Insight shows that recruitment is an ongoing pain point for head coaches, with 1:3 saying that they need at least another one part-time lead coach to fulfil the player demand on their programme. Therefore, off-court this year will focus on how head coaches and programme leaders can grow their own teams and address their local coach shortage. This will be a peer-to-peer session where like-minded and experienced coaches can share and learn from each other as well as the LTA tutor.

The overall duration of this event is 4 hours (2 hours 30 minutes on-court, 30 minutes networking, and 1 hour off-court).

Don’t miss out and book your place now. 

UCoach is one of the UK’s largest providers of Assistant (Level 1), Instructor (Level 2) and Coach (Level 3) tennis coaching courses. We have been an LTA Coach Development Centre since 2009 and have trained over 10,000 coaches. We are proud of our reputation as a leading coach qualification deliverer and the coaches we have trained, many of whom choose to stay with us for all their qualifications. 

Our philosophy is in our strapline “It’s all about you.” We take a holistic approach to learning where all coaches are valued as individuals and encouraged to reach their full potential in their own timeframe. We reach out to anyone with a desire to coach. The range of coaches includes young coaching assistants, schoolteachers and leaders of clubs, retired tour players and experienced performance coaches, all with one aim, to develop their tennis coaching skills. We encourage all our partners to be actively involved in our coach education programme and to provide feedback to ensure we maintain a high quality of delivery. 

As well as LTA qualifications at Assistant, Instructor and Coach, UCoach delivers LTA and bespoke CPD courses. Our bespoke courses include First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Safeguarding and courses relevant to growing a coaching business as well as Mentoring and Skill Acquisition.  

For further information, please visit our website or contact us at administration@ucoach.org.uk.