Tennis and fitness alongside Jordan Gray. 

The tennis sessions are lead by Jordan Gray. Jordan has been a professional player and coach since 1998. Playing at junior Wimbledon in 1999 and representing his county, Scotland and most recently Great Britain at over 35 level are all the highlights of his playing career. As a coach he has worked with a number of Scotland’s best players either as lead coach or part of the county/national programs. He is currently head coach at Thorn Park tennis club one of Scotland’s most illustrious and successful tennis clubs over the past 10 years. Alongside this he co-owns String Sports a rackets specialist retail business. His coaching motto is to “create a fun environment and try to make simple suggestions to allow players of any level to improve and maximise their ability regardless of playing standard”.

The idea behind this workshop is to help tennis players remain injury-free and improve their game by enhancing physical ability and understanding.

Jordan incorporates all the correct warm ups and readying the body to do this dynamic and multi directional coordination based sport. Tennis sessions will be tailored to the different levels and abilities of the players. A guest speaker will be invited to share their insights and expertise in the world of tennis and training.

We will learn about the role of the core and stability in the fitness session and also focus on cool down and recovery of your muscles using foam rollers, stretching routines and balancing your body.

Session 1 “how to play dynamic doubles”
Racket Warm up: To improve your volley these can and should be done repeatedly day in day out and are guaranteed to improve your over all control.

Exercise 1- Bryan brothers volley warm up.
Exercise 2- 1 in 1 back focus on racket position and split step timing. Try to extend your rallies beyond 10 balls without and error.
Exercise 3- flowing through the volley.

Things you will learn from this session:
A- understand your role as the net player when your partner is serving. Most importantly where to position and how to move.
B- how to be a better “poacher”. Focus on knowing the correct ball to move on and the timing of the movement.
C- Be more confident to communicate with your partner when playing doubles. Realise it is hugely important to feel like a team.