TYRELL DIAZ STEVENS - HEAD COACH

Tyrell has been involved in the tennis world for most of his life. Tennis has taken him to over 40 countries across the globe. As a player, Tyrell competed against many top 100 players including 3 former world number 1s (Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick) and reached a career-high ranking of #915 ATP. Originally from Australia, Tyrell has been based in the UK for the past 15 years where he founded the Berkhamsted Elite Tennis Academy (BETA Tennis) in 2008. Before the founding of the academy, Tyrell worked with some top international juniors including Laura Robson. He has also spent time coaching on the ATP tour and has coached at all 4 grand slams multiple times.

Tyrell has learned from many top coaches including John Fitzgerald (former Australian Davis Cup Captain), Todd Woodbridge (former world number 1 doubles players) and fitness coach Javier Capitaine (fitness coach to Maria Sharapova, David Nalbadian, Fabio Fognini and more). All of these experiences have moulded Tyrell’s coaching style and enabled him to develop a unique insight into the development of tennis players.

As the Director of Berkhamsted Tennis & Fitness, Tyrell has instilled his vision and philosophy on his team and together they look to continue to grow and develop as coaches and people.

QUALIFICATIONS

LTA LEVEL 4

Senior Performance Coach

GPTCA A LEVEL

ATP Certified 

25 ATP/ITF ACCREDITATION

7 Grand Slams 

RPT LEVEL 3

National Pro

OLIVER CULWICK - COACH

Oliver fell in love with tennis from an early age hitting a sponge ball against the back of his patio doors for hours on end. After breaking many pictures and ornaments, he then proceeded to join Berkhamsted Tennis Club for parctice sessions. This enabled him to compete reguralry on the county circuit as well as training with the Herts county team as a junior.   

While studying for his A-levels, Oliver assisted a few coaching sessions. It was then his love for coaching started. He took and passed his LTA level 3 DCA (Development Coach Award) and level 4 CCAP (Club Coach Award Performance) within his first four years of coaching. In 2005, Oliver also passed a Diploma in Sport Psychology. By 2010, Oliver had upgraded his qualification to the Senior Performance Coach qualification and in 2012 passed the Mini Tennis Performance Coach qualification.

As founder of the Berkhamsted Prestige Tennis Academy (mini tennis academy), Oliver has coached many junior players to County, Regional and National level, some of whom have gone on to represent Great Britain. As well as U10’s, Oliver works with older children and adults, whether this be introducing new players to the game or helping more experienced players fine tune their skills.

Oliver now has a family of his own, and you will often see his kids playing tennis or socialising with tennis at he heart of it all, just like he did as a youngster!

QUALIFICATIONS

LTA LEVEL 4

Senior Performance Coach

MINI TENNIS CERTIFIED

Mini Tennis Performance

DIPLOMA

Sports Psychology

RPT LEVEL 4

Advanced Coach

JOSE ROSE - COACH

Josh's tennis journey started at a young age which led him to compete internationally on the ITF junior circuit at age of 15 reaching a global ranking of 200. He then transitioned into the men’s ATP pro tour at 17 and did this for 3 years before making a career decision to focus on coaching, which he has been doing for the past 4 years.

Josh has taught lots of different levels/ages from beginners to professionals. He still compete at the topp club level i the UK.

QUALIFICATIONS

LTA LEVEL 3 - Development Coach

ATP RANKING - Top 1200 ATP

JOSH SAPWELL - COACH

Josh has had tennis in his blood from a very early age. By the age of 9 he was enrolled into a full-time tennis academy and went on to play regularly on the national circuit by the age of 10. By 12 years old, Josh became National Under 12 Champion and began competing internationally. In 2010 aged 14, Josh won the National, European and World Championships, while also leading the British Junior Davis cup team to a 4th place finish in the Junior Davis Cup.

Between the ages of 15-18, Josh competed in U18 International events (ITFs), winning several titles, representing his country, and also getting to the quarterfinals of Junior Wimbledon in 2014. Unfortunately, at the age of 20, Josh had to stop playing due to a career ending injury in his shoulder.

From this point he turned his hand to coaching where he started off as an Academy Coach at a International High-Performance Centre. Josh worked with a handful of the best players in the country. However, he felt in his early years of coaching he needed more diversity. He decided to take a role at a David Lloyd Club which provided this diversity. During this 8-month period, he developed a larger array of coaching abilities. Since 2018 he has been applying these abilities at Berkhamsted Tennis Club.

Josh is a keen Chelsea fan, enjoys a Netflix series but the love of his life is his car. His aims for the future are to keep working hard, learning his trade as a tennis coach, and inspiring these values on all his players, beginners to advance, young and old.

QUALIFICATIONS

LTA LEVEL 3 - Development Coach

JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION - Winner of U14 Orange Bowl

Everyone taking part in coaching at Little Gaddesden Tennis Club must be a member of the club. See https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/LittleGaddesdenTennisClub for more information.