Nigel Long
Qualifications:
PCA Coach
Level 5 Master Club Coach
LTA Master Tutor
LTA Assessor
Nigel has been involved in Tennis for over 25 years. As a PCA Coach Nigel has developed many performance players and coaches. Nigel brings a wealth of experience to UCoach from running his own successful business where he works with players and coaches at all levels. Nigel has delivered coach education courses to coaches of all levels. Following the successful running of a community and schools programme within his own company, Totally Tennis, Nigel has also worked for the Tennis Foundation as a consultant to develop community sites and also produces and delivers coaching resources and courses on behalf of the LTA. Nigel grew his own business from coaching 3 players in a park to running several centres and employing teams of coaches coaching over 1000 players per week. Nigel was USPTR Pro of the Year and an LTA Coach of the Year finalist.
Liz Jones
Qualifications:
Registered Professional Coach
LTA Master Tutor
B’Ed Hons (Physical Education) MSc (Sports Science)
Liz comes from a tennis playing background, having achieved a top 100 WTA senior ranking and being ranked 10 in the world as a junior. She competed at both junior and senior level at the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open. Liz brings a cutting edge to modern ways of coaching players of all levels. Liz, who has tutored for the past 20 years is one of the few tutors in the country who is able to work across the full tutoring spectrum and can bring daily practical experience from the field into the tutoring environment. In 2001 she was voted joint LTA coach of the year for her training and development of young junior players onto National champion standard. Liz has developed Batchwood Tennis Centre into a nationally recognised community, high performance and coach education centre. Liz has tutored at all levels of the coaching spectrum and mentors coach apprentices in the club environment.
Lorraine Ristic
Qualifications:
PCA Coach
Level 5 Performance Coaches Award
LTA Master Tutor
LTA Qualification Assessor
LTA Quality Assurer
Lorraine is an LTA Level 5 Performance Coach and also a highly experienced LTA Master Coach Education Tutor and has been tutoring for the LTA for over twenty years at all levels. She has also been a tennis coach for over 30 years and was the head coach at the East Gloucestershire Tennis Club for 19 of them where she ran the very successful Lorraine Ristic School of Tennis before moving to Painswick Lawn Tennis Club where she established the Painswick Tennis Academy. There she produced players of all levels including most notably Alicia Barnett. She maintains very passionately that it is important to coach and teach our wonderful game alongside tutoring as there is always still so much to learn and it is this on court work that keeps her fresh and open to new ideas. Prior to her coaching and coach education Lorraine played tennis professionally from the age of 21 and retired at 26 but continued to play to a high level since then and has represented Great Britain at all age groups in the Seniors World Team Championships from 35 to 50.