Meet Our Team
Saf Ahmed - Level 2 Accredited Tennis Coach
Saf is an LTA-Accredited Level 2 coach and is currently coaching at Roundhay Park and Armley Park. He has also worked in local primary schools and can run Cardio Tennis lessons. He has a huge passion for equality and equity; his goal is to bring people from different backgrounds, ages and abilities into tennis and make it a fun and enjoyable sport for everyone. Saf continues to add new skills to his coaching methods to develop himself which allows him to really excel with his players. Children and adults alike love the rapport they build with him, which allows them to really enjoy their tennis and make significant progress.
Contact:
07775 903152
Private Hitting Cost - £18 per hour
Danny Burrell - Community Tennis Activator - Level 4 Accredited+ Senior Coach
In 2019, Danny graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a Dean’s Award in Physical Education. During this time, he competed in Grade 3 tournaments for the Men’s 4th to 6th team at university, enabling him to reach his current LTA ranking of 441st nationally. Danny has coached alongside various high level coaches and has learnt much from their methods of coaching. In his role as Head Coach at Pudsey Tennis Club, he coached their junior team to the Bradford and District tennis league final and doubled the amount of players involved in the programme within a year. He has since left his role at Pudsey to further develop the programme at Sandal Tennis Club. By engaging players of varying abilities and ages from various different clubs and parks through fun lessons and friendly competitions, he has seen an incredible interest in his coaching and the coaching programme.
In coordinating tennis programmes in local parks around Leeds, he envisions that working with different clubs and venues in harmony will enable him to achieve his long term goal of increasing tennis participation and access to tennis throughout Yorkshire. The Leeds Community Tennis Programme that Danny coordinates won the LTA National Community & Parks Programme of the year in 2021. Furthermore, he is very motivated to learn about new methods of coaching to develop himself and therefore to see a greater development in the players who he coaches. This sparked his desire to complete his Level 4 coaching qualification in 2022. Lastly, he is friendly coach who welcomes everyone to try tennis regardless of their ability! Join in with one of his sessions and you won't be disappointed!
Contact:
07891 271301