What We Do?
UCoach have trained thousands of coaches, benefiting the wider tennis community. We train, assess and qualify coaches to become assistant coaches, coaches and leaders of industry in schools, clubs and centres across the UK.
We support the LTA coach licensing system by providing an extensive range of workshops to enable coaches to upgrade and develop their skill base and keep licences up to date.
Reaching out
We reach out to anyone with a desire to coach. The range of coaches includes; young coaching assistants, school teachers and leaders of clubs, retired tour players and experienced performance coaches, all with one aim, to develop their tennis coaching skills.
We encourage the LTA, course verifiers, clubs, schools, colleges, universities and other tennis communities to be actively involved in our coach education programme and to provide feedback to ensure we maintain a high quality of delivery.
We work to ensure equal access for all to quality training at all times.
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.
Case Studies
UCoach in partnership with Tony Blair Foundation in the North East
We work with the Tony Blair Foundation to support young coaches in the North East to fulfill their potential.
100% uptake on the Coach Courses
The coach education centres run by Ucoach are filling coach courses months before they start. We are actively encouraging successful assistant coaches to take the next steps on the coaching pathway.
Our Tutors
Our tutors are an experienced team of tennis experts from across the UK. All tutors are qualified coaches and have the LTA Certificate in Tutoring Skills. They attend regular LTA tutor training and are LTA licensed coaches. Our tutors are experienced in leading teams of coaches and delivering a range of tennis coaching programmes in club, school and local authority environments.
For workshops, we engage tutors that have specialist knowledge of areas such as strength and conditioning, tour tennis, tots tennis, schools tennis and mental skills. This ensures we deliver cutting edge experiences for our coaches in the field.
We ensure that the tutors understand the regional and local needs of the LTA field teams. They are regularly inspected through a rigorous internal and external verification process, to ensure a standardised delivery of courses throughout the country.
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 into a nationally recognised community, high performance and coach education centre. Liz tutors at all levels of the coaching spectrum and mentors coach apprentices in the club environment.
 Qualifications Registered Professional Coach B'Ed Hons (Physical Education) MSc (Sports Science) "Liz was a very talented tennis player and a strong leader in tennis competitions. She has a great personality and was always very popular amongst her peers."
Annabel Croft,
Former British Tennis Champion,
Sky Sports Presenter
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 is a Master Tutor for the LTA and delivers 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 also works for the Tennis Foundation as a consultant and produces and delivers coaching resources and courses. 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.
 Qualifications PCA Coach "In any sport the success of that sport always depends on committed individuals who have lots of energy and understand the pitfalls within that particular sport. In tennis we are fortunate to have people like Nigel Long, not only is he fun to work with, he is totally committed to getting more people playing and coaching tennis"
Sue Mappin,
Executive Director, The Tennis Foundation
Mandy was voted joint LTA Coach of the Year 2001 for training the first ever back to back British 18u and 16u male player. Mandy has coached three 18u and 16u British players to championship titles and helped many players to gain national and international rankings and university scholarships. She has travelled extensively with aspiring tour players on the ETA, ITF, WTA and ATP circuits. She has played sport to a high level including numerous representations for Herts at County week and County cup, satellite circuit experiences and represented England at hockey.
Mandy is an LTA master tutor and has tutored for 25 years and currently tutors all levels of the tutoring spectrum. Mandy has also been a visiting Lecturer in Sports Science and Physical Education at Brunel University for five years, taught at both primary and secondary schools for 3 years and worked on behalf of the ITF in the middle east.Recently, Mandy was invited by Judy Murray to train coaches at a Federation Cup tie against Sweden alongside players such as Laura Robson and Heather Watson, to facilitate an understanding of modern tour coaching methods and sports science implementation.
Specialist areas of knowledge include sports psychology, technical and tactical training, designing and implementing local authority, community and performance programmes and mentoring coaches and apprentices in the workplace.
Mandy set up and developed the first LTA/ITI tennis development and outreach programme in the UK as joint TDO and Head Pro at Batchwood, St Albans in 1988. This led to working on behalf of the LTA to train a further 14 ITI TDO's and assist in the design and implementation of their programmes. She then initiated Batchwood to become one of the first LTA/High Performance and LTA Coach Education centres in the UK.
 Qualifications Registered Professional Coach B'Ed Hons MA (Physical Education) MSc (Sports Science) "Mandy creates an environment where all are keen to learn, are generous, helpful and kind and above all else, somewhere where no one person is more important than any other. Everytime I work with Mandy I grow as a coach and leave feeling full of new techniques and ideas"
Rob Twyman,
CCA Coach
Jenny comes from an educational background having taught in primary, secondary and further education. Her coaching experience and educational experience combined in her role as Director of Tennis at Queenswood school, working with players at all levels. Jenny is a Master Tutor, AASE assessor and has been an LTA councillor.
Following three years as Hertfordshire's Performance Officer Jenny became a full time tutor with the LTA working across the range of courses. Jenny is an expert in developing club coaches and apprentices to work with players of all levels and ages. Jenny is also a qualified Internal Verifier and an AASE assessor.
As a player Jenny represented Northumberland, Hertfordshire and Wales. She has managed numerous county cup teams and is a member of the Hertfordshire executive committee.
 Qualifications Registered Professional Coach BA (Humanties) Cert Ed (Physical Education) "Jenny's patience, knowledge and explanation skills are second to none, and without her I would not be half the tennis player I am today"
Matt Thomson,
Level 2 Coach & National U18 Player
Jenny trained as a bi-lingual secretary at Hatfield Technical College (University of Hertfordshire as it is now known) and before having her children, worked in London for a Belgian transport company.
Jenny is mum to four grown up children and grandma to six grandchildren. She has always loved tennis and when the children were younger spent the school holidays ferrying them to the junior tennis tournaments taking place in Herts.
She has been a member of the UCoach team since it's inception in 2009. Before joining UCoach Jenny worked initially as a volunteer with Herts LTA, later becoming an Administrator for the Herts LTA County Office.
Apart from her grandchildren and tennis, Jenny's other interests include Molly, her Labrador, cryptic crosswords and the music of Andre Rieu.
 Jenny Marlow UCoach Administrator
Julie is a full-time administrator at UCoach and joined the company in March 2012. She has spent many years in administrative roles within the tennis industry and has previously worked for Gosling High Performance Tennis Centre and Bedfordshire LTA.
Julie has always been interested in tennis, coming from a tennis playing family and has been playing since she was eight. As well as representing various clubs in league tennis she has also represented Hertfordshire as a junior and Bedfordshire in the older age groups!
Julie has three grown up children, who all represented Bedfordshire in junior county tennis, plus two gorgeous grandchildren.
Other interests include walking, cycling and watching her favourite football team Tottenham.
 Julie Strange UCoach Administrator
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