Meet the Coaches

      Head Coach - Beatha Roper-Rice

Individual rate: £45 including court fee / Group rate: £45 shared between the group. 07724251878 / coaching@chorleywoodtennis.com

Beatha is an enthusiastic, professional LTA+ Level 4 Senior Tennis Coach. Bringing over 15 years of coaching experience to the court, Beatha was a National player herself in her teens, training under top performance coaches at Sutton Tennis Academy and Bromley Tennis Centre before building her reputation as a coach.

Since then her career has taken her from coaching alongside Annabel herself at the Annabel Croft Tennis Academy, to touring Europe as a Head Coach for former junior World Number 1 player Lauren Jones, and progressing to become the Senior Coach for Juniors, Ladies and Men at the prestigious National Tennis Centre in Richmond for 10 years, where she gained excellent rapport working alongside top LTA names and helping in the creation of the widely used LTA Youth programme.

Beatha went on to build her own successful coaching programmes around London and Herts for grass roots, development, county and national players before taking on her next venture, becoming Director of Tennis at Chorleywood Lawn Tennis Club where she plans to build a thriving junior and adult programme for beginners to performance. She will also be starting her Level 5 Master Director of Tennis Course next year which is the highest LTA level!

 

   Roy Richardson

Individual rate: £55 inclusive of court fee. Contact: 07889 332260

Roy qualified as a RPT Level 3 coach in 1992. Prior to training as a coach Roy played in European Satellite and Challenge Tennis Events.

Roy has coached at county level, coaching in Sussex before arriving at Chorleywood and has also coached in Greece as Head Coach. He has also coached in London in schools, parks and centres for Brent Sports Development.

Roy is available currently for 1-2-1s and occasionally covers some junior and adult sessions at CLTC! Roy is also our Club stringer for when you need your racket restrung!