Tennis Online

Not every player has access to the right coach. You might live somewhere with limited tennis coaching, already have a coach but want another perspective on your technique or tactics, travel frequently and compete in different countries, or simply have a busy schedule that makes regular coaching difficult. None of that means your development has to stop.

Tennis Online gives you access to my coaching without needing to be on the same court. The way we work is straightforward: you send me video of your tennis, we talk about what you're trying to improve, I analyse what I see, and we decide what you should work on next. The important part is that the advice stays connected to your actual game. I'm not interested in handing you a list of generic drills; I want to understand how you play, where you are now, and what's getting in the way of the next step.

How I Analyse and Coach Your Game

Video is useful because it lets us slow the game down. A player can feel that they're preparing early, for example, while the footage shows the preparation is actually late. They may feel they're moving well, when the footage shows they're recovering too slowly. A player might think their forehand is the problem when the real issue starts with their position or preparation. We look at your strokes, movement, positioning and point construction together and work out what's actually happening, whether that turns out to be technical, tactical, or something with very little to do with the shot itself.

Once we know what deserves attention, your training plan is built around your current level, your goals and the time you actually have available. If you have two hours on court each week, the plan works within two hours; if you're preparing for a tournament, the priorities shift accordingly. You should always know what you're working on and, just as importantly, why.

Technically, you can send video from different angles and situations, and we look at the same stroke repeatedly, comparing what happens when you're balanced, moving, stretched or under pressure, so I can give you specific things to work on rather than trying to change everything at once. The aim isn't to make your technique look perfect on video; it's to make the stroke useful once you're actually playing.

Tactically, we analyse points and matches to look at how you build rallies, where you create opportunities, where you lose control and how your decisions change under pressure: your best way to start a point, how you're creating opportunities with your serve, what happens after your return, which patterns suit your game, when you should attack, and what you do when your normal pattern isn't working. This becomes particularly useful when preparing for an opponent or an upcoming tournament, where we look at your recent matches, identify the areas that need attention and build a simple plan, from tactical preparation and serve and return priorities through to match routines and managing pressure.

Match video adds a different layer again. You may play beautiful tennis in practice and struggle to reproduce it when the score matters, and that's something we can work with directly: why you lost a particular point, whether the shot itself was the problem, whether it was the decision, whether you rushed or stopped following your plan. The purpose isn't to pick apart the match afterwards, but to learn from it and take that information straight back into training.

How We Work Together

Tennis Online works best as an ongoing coaching relationship rather than a one-off review. One video analysis can identify a problem; regular coaching lets us see whether the change is actually working. You send new video, we review the progress, the plan gets adjusted, new problems appear, and we deal with them. Progress is sometimes quick and sometimes a technical change takes months to feel natural; occasionally we discover the original problem wasn't the real problem at all. All of that is normal development, and the value of having a coach involved over time is that I get to understand your game, rather than handing you isolated pieces of advice.

We start with a conversation about your tennis: where you are now, what you want to achieve, what you're struggling with, and what access you have to courts, training and competition. From there, we build the coaching around what you actually need, which might include video analysis, training plans, regular video calls, match analysis or tournament preparation. The frequency varies too; some players need regular contact, others need a detailed review every few weeks and a clear plan to follow between sessions. There's no reason to create a complicated programme if your tennis doesn't require one.

Who It's For

Tennis Online works particularly well for players without access to specialist coaching who want another level of expertise involved in their development, junior players whose parents want consistent guidance alongside their local coaching, competitive club players who are serious about improving but can't train with a specialist coach regularly, tournament players who want technical and tactical support between competitions, travelling players who need their coaching to continue while away from their usual training environment, and players who simply want a second opinion on a technical, tactical or performance problem. The common factor is simple: you want to improve, but the traditional model of meeting a coach on court every week doesn't give you everything you need.

The process follows a simple cycle: analyse, understand, plan, practise, review. We look at your tennis, work out what's really happening, decide what needs attention, and you take that work onto the court. Then we look at what happened and decide what comes next, and that cycle continues as your game develops.

Online coaching shouldn't feel like a cheaper version of being on court. It's a different way of coaching. You still need to do the hitting, still need to practise, still need to compete. My role is to help you understand what you're doing, identify what needs to change, and give you a clear direction for the work in between. You bring the tennis. I help you make sense of it.