Tennis & Children

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Founder's Coaching & Playing History

 

Coach Gary Stanford began tennis at the age of 15 at the Horley LTC. He was introduced to the club by a friend from school and found that he had a talent for the game. The club was on the same road that he had lived for 3 years, regrettably he wished that he had played when he was younger. Gary stopped playing for one year but continued again aged 18. He took a few lessons with a coach, but is basically self taught.

    His first tournaments outside of the club events were from aged 19 years and often struggled with nerves which had a very negative affect on his performances. One match Gary recalls was against a Surrey County tennis opponent when he was 19 years of age where he got hammered 6-0 6-0, he had never seen a topspin serve and could not manage the pace. His game was developing but unfortunately starting so late and with no real coaching hampered his progress. However one year later he met the same opponent in the surrey singles event, to his delight he won in 3 sets. This led to Gary being picked for the Surrey mens under 21 team where he had some good wins. He continues to play competitively with some good tournament wins, and of course some bad losses with some days just not having the energy or desire to play after coaching or looking after his own children. Always wanting to learn and improve his tennis and still at present able to take on the juniors.

 

Playing History

(Over 35’s ) Highest ITF World Ranking of 20 & Number 4 in GB

(Over 40's) Highest ITF World Ranking of 50 & Number 1 in GB

Highest LTA Rating of 3.1

Represented Surrey in under 21 teams

Represented Surrey at county week in the over 35's team

Tournament Wins & runner up/Singles & Doubles

Mens National grass court championships of GB @ Wimbledon

(Over 40's) Runner up

Cranleigh Open

Singles winner 3 times/Runner up 4 times

Ratings winner 2 times /Runner up 2 times

Doubles winner 2 times /Runner up 3 times

Bracknell Ratings

Singles Winner 5 times / Runner up 4 times

Aldershot & District Open

Singles winner 5 times /Runner up 2 times

Double's winner 5 times

South of England Championship ITF event

Over 35's Singles winner

Men's over 35's doubles runner up 2 times

Surrey Champs Postal

Singles over 35's runner up 2 times

Mens doubles runner up 2 times

Eugene Bann Ratings

Singles winner (Tableau)

Woking (ITF) Over 35s

Singles runner up

St Georges hill open

Singles mens ratings winner 2 times

Open Doubles winner once/ Runner up once

Nottingham over 40's

Mens Doubles winner

Aldershot Open

Mens open doubles winner once /Runner up once

Many other tournament wins in and around South-East

 

Coaching Present

Full time coach since 1987 / LTA (I.C.A) Qualified & CRB checked /Have participated on licensing scheme courses

Currently running a coaching business in Woking, ‘Tennis & Children’

Coach to Private schools & Freelance coach

Coaching Past

Surrey county coach & selector for the LTA

Coached various county & national junior players
Head of junior under 11’s coaching program at Chris Lane Tennis Centre

Coached Guildford grammar school to national schools title

Coach to Merrow LTC / Pirbright LTC / Woking LTC / Sutton Junior tennis centre / Wishel LTC / Chris lane tennis centre / Binfield LTC lady beginners in groups for 2 years / Wispers girls school /Sir William Perkins Girls School / Greenfield school / Wellington College /St Nicholas school

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