Description
Instruct and coach individuals and teams in the fundamentals of tennis for competitive play. Demonstrate stroke mechanics, footwork, and match tactics, and design practices to build skills and fitness. Evaluate players’ strengths and weaknesses for development and, when applicable, recruiting. Those required to hold teaching certifications should be reported in the appropriate teaching category.
- • Plan, organize, and run tennis practices, drills, and match-play sessions.
- • Develop singles and doubles strategies and set lineups for matches and seasons.
- • Plan and direct tennis-specific strength, conditioning, agility, and mobility programs.
- • Adjust instruction and training plans based on player strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles.
- • Create scouting reports on prospective players; recommend recruiting targets and events.
- • Teach USTA/ITF rules, scoring, court positioning, grips, swing paths, and footwork principles.
- • Analyze opponents’ patterns and tendencies to develop match game plans.
- • Evaluate players using statistics and video to assess potential and readiness.
- • Stay current on tennis rules, coaching methods, analytics, and racket/string technologies.
- • Ensure proper and safe use of rackets, ball machines, nets, and training aids.
- • Plan match schedules, tournament entries, and preseason/postseason programs.
- • Explain and enforce court safety, hydration, heat protocols, and injury-prevention guidelines.
- • Organize and lead on-court drills, practice matches, challenge ladders, and officiate scrimmages as needed.
- • Demonstrate use of tennis and fitness equipment, including ball machines, targets, resistance tools, and video systems.
- • Arrange and conduct tennis camps, clinics, skill sessions, and team tryouts.
- • Select, purchase, inventory, and issue balls, rackets, strings, grips, apparel, and supplies.
- • Provide training direction, match preparation, motivation, and basic nutrition and recovery guidance.
- • Teach tennis classes or lessons and advise student-athletes on development plans.
- • Communicate with parents of junior players about progress, schedules, and expectations.
- • Coordinate travel, lodging, and logistics for away matches and tournaments; travel with the team.
- • Hire, supervise, and collaborate with assistant coaches, hitting partners, and trainers.
- • Maintain and analyze player and team performance data, scouting databases, and video libraries.
- • Counsel student-athletes on athletic, academic, and personal matters.
- • Support the program through community outreach, media engagements, sponsorships, and fundraising events.
- • Monitor academic eligibility and progress for student-athletes.
- • Identify and recruit tennis athletes through showcases, tournaments, campus visits, and scholarship offers where applicable.
- • Manage program budgets, equipment contracts, and fundraising initiatives.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
