Coaching

Our club has a tennis coach, with our LTA level 3 Coach, Colin Byers an active member of the club as well as offering coaching, racquet stringing and equipment advice.  

Please scroll to the bottom of this page to find  some of the coaching courses on offer....

For more details on coaching, please email coaching@sonningtennis.com




Colin Byers level 2 LTA accredited tennis instructor
Mobile:  07768 427326
email:  c2tenniscoaching@gmail.com


Adult Coaching 2024

Various adult coaching sessions are available weekly - all members are welcome to join any sessions

  • Rusty Racquets / Improvers - Saturday & Sunday mornings 9am-10am (before club session)
  • Doubles tactics and drills -  Saturdays 12noon-1pm focusing on doubles formations and tactics
  • Tennis Drills Sessions - Tuesdays 6pm (at Woodford Park from Oct-March) practising a specific shot/scenario

All sessions cost £10 each per session. Members can request private single or group sessions. Contact Colin direct.


Team Coaching:  Club funded Team coaching dates for 2025 (to be confirmed):

Ladies: usually 3 Thursdays in the summer season

Mens:  usually 3 Thursdays in the summer season

Mixed: usually 3 Thursdays in the summer season


Other Club Funded coaching includes:

Rusty Racquets:  usually 3 dates in the summer season

General Member Sessions:  usually 3 dates in the summer season


Junior Coaching 2024

Juniors attending club coaching are required to be Junior members first. This costs £27.50 per year and Parents can enroll them online via the Join Us page.

Junior coaching sessions will be run by our coaches on Thursday 5-6pm  plus  Sunday 3-4pm  Junior performance sessions. From October till March the Thursday sessions move to Woodford Park, Woodley and it becomes Orange Ball only. We will add a Tuesday 5pm session in winter months for Yellow Ball (age 11+)

All sessions cost £10 each


Junior coaching School Holiday Tennis Camps with coaching, covering improving play, working on technique, fun games and match play.

OCTOBER HALF TERM TENNIS CAMPS 2024 - dates TBC
Christmas 2024  - dates TBC  

All email enquiries on coaching should be sent to: coaching@sonningtennis.com