Courses

LTA Youth Tennis Leaders Courses, 20th August or 20th December, 2025.

The LTA Youth Tennis Leaders Course is aimed at 11 – 18 year olds. The programme provides young people, whatever their tennis ability, with the opportunity to gain valuable leadership skills both on and off the court. This is the first step on a tennis and sports career path for volunteering and paid employment.
The course will cover three modules:

MODULE 1
Introduction to tennis
MODULE 2/3
Leading a practice session/Helping at a Competition

Dates: Wednesday 20th August or Saturday 20th December 2025, 9am – 1pm.

Venue: Welwyn Tennis Club, 7 Ottway Walk, Welwyn, AL6 9AT

For more details and to book a place on one of these courses please see: LTA Youth Leaders 20th Aug or 20th Dec 2025

Herts Tennis Coaches Forum

Herts Tennis work with the Herts Tennis Coaches Forum (formerly Working Group) to support all LTA accredited coaches and coaching assistants working in Hertfordshire venues. They are a group of hard working, committed coaches working to provide additional fresh and exciting Continuous Professional Development opportunities for all coaches in our county and beyond as well as providing annual first aid training courses. To find out more about how you can support the HTCF and contribute ideas for the courses they can offer contact Alison Allard via the County Office hertstennis@gmail.com

Matchplay & Momentum with Alistair Higham, 7th October 2025

Hertfordshire Tennis Coaches Forum is delighted to announce that Alistair Higham, an international expert on matchplay and momentum in sport, not only in tennis but other professional sports, will be our on court presenter at the forthcoming Hertfordshire CPD.

This will be an interactive session designed to help coaches teach matchplay skills with the aim of producing intelligent, resilient match players. The session will include match preparation, match flow, impact of the score and the link between momentum and performance.

Date: Tuesday 7th October, 2025 9.30am to 1.30pm
Venue: Batchwood Sports Centre, Batchwood Drive, St. Albans AL3 5XA

Course Fee: Coaches working in Herts Registered Venues: £35.00
                      Coaches working outside Herts: £45.00

CPD Credits may be applied for using the LTA Independent Learning Portal.

To book your place please click on the link below, return the attached application form and make the payment as detailed on the bottom of the form. Once the form AND payment has been received, your place will be confirmed by email. 

Matchplay & Momentum with Alistair Higham application form (PDF)

Matchplay & Momentum with Alistair Higham application form (Word)

UCoach  

UCoach are the LTA approved Coach Development Centre for Hertfordshire and provide LTA Coaching Qualifications and approved Continuous Professional Development courses for Coach Accreditation and learning. To find out more about UCoach and search and book courses visit www.UCoach.org.uk

2025 UCoach courses

UCoach has upcoming a range of coach qualification courses from LTA Assistant to Level 3 as well as coach training courses including ‘Creating an Environment to Develop More Skilful Players’.

For more information and to book places on courses please go to https://ucoach.org.uk/workshops/ and https://ucoach.org.uk/courses/

Please note that LTA credits are available for CPD courses.

UCoach LTA Padel Instructor Course

This updated LTA Padel Instructor Qualification is a five day course, consisting of four days of course training and one elective (from a choice of two).

This qualification is designed to equip candidates with the skills and confidence to deliver excellent group lessons for both adults and juniors on a single court.

During the course you will:

  • Experience, observe, and deliver high quality coaching in a group lesson
  • Learn how to structure a padel lesson using game-based methodology
  • Develop the communication skills to allow you to communicate effectively with players
  • Discover how to integrate inclusion into every aspect of your coaching sessions
  • Explore the LTA Tactical and Technical Development Frameworks to learn the fundamentals of tactics and techniques

Training:

  • The LTA Padel Instructor course consists of five days of face-to-face training, separated by a minimum of four weeks. This allows time for eight hours work experience and coursework completion. 
  • There are four days of core training and one day of elective. Core and elective training is booked (and paid for) on the LTA Course Search Tool. 

Coaches can choose from one of the two elective options: Coaching Kids Padel or How to Coach the Double Glass.

Dates: 9th July, 10th July, 31st July and 14th August 2025
Time: 9am-5pm
Venue: Game4Padel, Gosling Sports Park, Welwyn Garden City AL8 6XD
Cost: £585.00

To book, please go to: https://ucoach.org.uk/product/lta-padel-instructor-gosling/

LTA Youth Start

Following on from the very successful Tennis for Kids programme, the LTA have launched a new programme. LTA Youth Start is for kids aged 4-11 years who are new to tennis. Forget standing around waiting for your turn to hit a forehand, think dynamic sessions catered for all abilities designed to help kids to learn new life skills developing them both as players and as people.

For £29.99 (+ £5 postage and packing) kids can access the following:

Six top-class tennis sessions with specially trained coaches

A tennis racket and set of balls

A branded t-shirt

Activity cards, a lanyard, stickers and a certificate (provided by the coach)

To find your nearest course click here

*If your child has played tennis before then they should try the LTA Youth Programme

LTA Course Search http://www3.lta.org.uk/in-your-area/Hertfordshire/courses/