The Club is pleased to announce an exciting new appointment to continue the good work from former Head Coach Kris Jenkins.  Kris has made the difficult decision to move onto a bigger project at Newmarket Tennis Club.  Kris goes with our best wishes for success, having served Lavenham LTC for around 7 years.

As always, a new start must follow the end of something.  The Club is delighted to introduce Matt Perry as the new Head of Programme for LLTC.  Matt will be looking to develop the programme over the coming months.  He will be expertly assisted by Josh Mumford (who continues his coaching role) as they continue to offer our burgeoning groups of juniors their expertise.  They will seek to continue the groups' progression whilst ensuring their engagement and the vital fun element remains.

It is likely, until April or later, that adult coaching may not be greatly available, if at all.  This is to allow a bedding-in period and for precious coaching time to be freed up so we can get back to a more usual offering.  Matt will clarify further in his follow up emails.

Matt will officially start his role on 1st January 2025.  Josh Mumford is happy to field any queries from our junior members and their parents/guardians in the meantime.  Matt says:

"During my 10 years as a tennis coach I have worked with a plethora of players of all ages and abilities and have a proven track record for building healthy, sustainable school and club programmes.  I am the current Head of Tennis at OBH school where we teach 150 children between the ages of 3-13 years per week and have previously been a Head Coach of a local tennis club in which we had 130 players partaking during 8 hours of classes per week.

My mission is to instill a lifelong love for tennis and give everyone the opportunity to play and develop their game.  I have had the honour to teach alongside some wonderful coaches and look forward to working hard with Josh Mumford to offer high quality coaching and to further develop the great work of the previous coaching team during the start of 2025.

I'm excited for this new chapter to start with a lovely prestigious club like Lavenham and I look forward to meeting plenty of you in the months to come."

We hope you will all welcome Matt to the club.

We wish you all a marvellous Christmas and a Happy New Year!