Devon is extremely fortunate to have an excellent and fully committed team of coaches who work tremendously well together supporting and encouraging each other. There is a good range of coaches with respect to qualifications, age, and experience, and all from a variety of backgrounds. To have such a dedicated team that compliment each other is essential to the success of the programme and is a real positive for the players. The County Coaching team has coaches from all over Devon who are passionate about developing fantastic players and of course county cup teams too!

All the coaches are DBS checked and LTA accredited, and thoroughly enjoy challenging themselves, as much as they do the players!

 

Will McNally -Performance Manager  

I am an LTA Level 5 Master Performance Coach with a wealth of experience that spans more than 30 years of coaching. My career has brought me into contact with many wonderful people and players, with several going on to achieve National Honours and World Rankings. I was a County Performance Officer for Berkshire, doing a similar role, before joining Devon Tennis. I first worked at Victoria Park Tennis Club when I first moved to Devon before becoming Director of Tennis at Exeter Tennis Centre for 12 years. My main role now is coordinating and managing the Devon Junior Performance programme which currently has approximately 120 players over the various age groups. I thoroughly enjoy working together with players, coaches and clubs / centres to help them develop, as well as keeping an eye open for new and emerging talent.

 

 

Tracy Brown   

LTA Level 3 Accredited Coach

My Name is Tracy Brown, I have been coaching at Torquay Tennis Club now for over 20yrs. I deliver the majority of the programme at the club, and this diversity gives me a depth of knowledge in many areas of coaching. I also have 2 children who competed to a good level, so I do understand both sides, coaching and parenting.

I have had the pleasure of working with many, many fabulous kids. Some of these have competed to a high level. I have also enjoyed sharing the journey of many county champions throughout my time. 

I am very pleased to have been involved with Devon County Tennis from the start, and am excited to see what we can achieve in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

Jo Louis   

LTA Level 5 Accredited+ coach

Jo has coached groups and individual players of all ages and standards from four to over seventy years of age, and from players new to the game to players representing Great Britain. She has captained teams of players both in this country and abroad from club league teams to players representing Great Britain.

Jo is a former professional tennis player, she has represented Great Britain from under twelve to seniors and has competed in the Ladies singles at Wimbledon, US Open and Australian Open and has wins against Steffi Graf and Jo Durie.  Jo has won over thirty National Championships and as a senior has won two World Team Championships.

Jo has worked for the LTA as a tutor delivering training to primary and secondary school teachers, the Tennis Assistants and LTA Coaching qualifications to tennis coaches.  Jo was Tennis Development Officer for East Devon District Council and Manager of Exmouth Tennis & Fitness Centre.

Jo is now loving being back on court and is owner of Visions Tennis, which aims to 'develop & improve life skills through fun tennis opportunities for all'.

 

Hannah Miller   

LTA Level 4 Accredited+ Coach

Hannah Miller is the Tennis Manager/ Head Coach at The Tarka Tennis Centre. She has worked there for 18 years and coaches all levels of players from beginners to national standard. Hannah has been a Devon County Coach for 5 years and loves seeing all the Devon players come together and progress with their training. She has taken several teams away for Devon to the LTA County Cups and looks forward to continuing this into the future. 

Hannah loves all sports but particularly Rounders, where she has played for England!

 

 

 

 

Stefan Lupu   

Stefan has been involved in tennis for the past 25 years as a player and now a qualified coach.

He grew up in Italy where he played at County level and then trained and competed nationally and internationally including ETA and Senior ITF.  He then spent his late teens as a young semi professional player in Spain.  During this time he became an assistant tennis coach for various clubs in Barcelona.

Stefan has been coaching in the UK for 8 years and has developed his British career in tennis with the LTA.  He has focused his coaching on developing junior players to county and national level as well as adults at a national and international level.  Stefan delivers an enthusiastic and focused approach to his coaching promoting an inclusive environment.  Bringing his international experience into his sessions Stefan is able to offer his players a wider variety of tennis knowledge and creative coaching.

 

 

Katie Wiltshire  

'Katie is an enthusiastic coach who has a real passion for advancing players in both development and performance settings. Katie has been involved in tennis from a young age and has gained significant experience as a competitive player and a coach. Katie has competed in BUCS whilst captaining the Women's First Team at Nottingham Trent University,  and has since put her experience into action, training the Women's Teams at Exeter University and Captaining the Devon Ladies Team. Katie is particularly driven to promote female participation in tennis across all ages and standards.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ollie Sharpe

Ollie is a keen young performance coach who coaches at Exmouth working predominantly with County/Regional level players who are 12 and under down to his youngest current county player at 6 years old. Ollie’s proudest achievement to date is coaching his first player to a 10U grade 2 National tournament after coaching the player from the age of 4.

Ollie has been heavily involved in Devon county tennis for the last 5 years. One of Ollie’s first achievements  in Devon was the creation and delivery of the then ‘Mini Devon Academy’ prior to the current LTA backed county training provision in which Ollie continues to be one of the lead coaches. Ollie has since gone on to captain numerous county cup teams including regularly being the 9U and 10U boys captain.

Fun fact- the first tennis session Ollie ever attended as a child at Exmouth aged 7, he now coaches”

 

 

 

Grant Notten

 

Julie Williams