LTA Coach (Level 3) Qualification
Where will it get you?
The new LTA Tennis Coach Qualification is an 11-day qualification, comprised of nine days’ Core Training and two Electives (from a choice of three).
If you want to make the move towards a career in tennis coaching, add coaching individuals to your repertoire, or just upgrade your coaching to the next level, this course is for you.
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Module Breakdown:
During the course you will:
- Gain a developed understanding of observation and analysis and learn how to use this to drive your coaching sessions.
- Improve your players’ match play via match charting, statistics, goal setting and game-realistic drills.
- Study and practically use the tactical and technical fundamentals that drive coaching knowledge
- Understand the basics of Strength and Conditioning for tennis and understand how to implement them with players of any standard.
- Practically apply a framework that will enable you to better coach players with disability
- Learn how to build a tennis programme, including how to develop yourself
- Take a deeper look at doubles coaching: roles, considerations, and patterns.
In addition to the 11 days’ training, you will complete circa 43 hours of remote coursework:
- 15 hours on a Player Development Project, improving a player over a period of 8 weeks
- 10 hours of Qualification Experience
- 10 hours of online units and tests with Subject Matter Experts
- 4 hours of demonstration and feeding tasks
- 2 hours spent on the ITF online library of coach education
- 2 hours on a Group Coaching Task
Candidates must attend all the sessions on the course and pass all elements of the assessment criteria to be successful.
Course Pre-Requisites
For optimal course quality and impact, the LTA Tennis Coach has prerequisites to ensure that the course demands are aligned with your existing knowledge and skills. For LTA Tennis Coach, these are:
- Hold the LTA Instructor qualification (or Level 2 equivalent)
- Be LTA Accredited or hold a DBS/PVG Enhanced Check with Child Barred List certificate applied for in the past 12 months through LTA/Tennis Scotland (volunteer certificates cannot be accepted). A DBS can be accepted if you are on the Update Service - see here for more details. Please note that it may take at least eight weeks for a DBS to be processed and you must hold a valid LTA DBS certificate upon booking.
- Have (or have had) a rating of 6.1 (post 2003) or better, have a current singles WTN of 22.00 (male) or 25.00 (female), have successfully completed the Coach Readiness Test or have previously completed a Play Test (at a minimum of Grade 1). The Readiness Test can take up to two weeks to be assessed once submitted - please allow sufficient time for this when signing up for the course.
