Orbit Tennis

Orbit Tennis has been established at Prior’s Field School and Elstead Tennis Club by Barbara Awbery.  Over 400 children are coached regularly by Barbara and her team, with hundreds more joining in the fun in the holidays.  Orbit Tennis caters for junior players from 3 to 18, as well as adults.  All standards are welcome from complete beginners to experienced match players.  Orbit give quality coaching, small groups size (1:6 coach to pupil ratio) and a fantastic friendly learning environment.

 
Coaches

Qualified experienced coaches are the name of the game at Orbit.  Barbara Awbery, and Adam Turner are Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) Level 4 coaches with full Coaching Licence, and are National Members of the British Tennis Coaches Association (BTCA). Barbara is a Head Tennis Coach being sponsored by Head Tennis Limited, and was the LTA coach of the month in June 2009. Barbara and Adam started the Orbit Academy at Prior’s Field school in 2002.

In addition we have Chris Tucker who is also a level 4 coach, specialising in the performance side and working mainly at Edgeborough school,  Stuart McCabe, Betty Maitland and Ollie Kirk who are all licensed level 3 coaches, Sam Williamson who is a level 2 coach and specialises in our under 6's,  Laura Parrott who works as a tennis assistant and Dan Burden who is our first tennis apprentice. Betty is also our qualified  CardioTennis coach