Oct 5, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
In this episode I help navigate the world of education for tennis coaches. Qualifications, certificates, workshops and more are all a part of the tennis coach journey. Once I make the decision to…
Rick WillsmoreHost
Right, so do you actually need to study to become a tennis coach? Not necessarily.
You could easily just take-- go from playing the game and, and transfer into the coaching without actually studying it.
Uh, you may still even be effective, right? If you, if you're good at breaking things down and, and, and teaching people, um, you may be effective.
But look, I have to recommend that you do do some study and you do do some qualifications to become a tennis coach.
And I'm gonna go through what I've done and why I found it beneficial, and why I think that you, if you're a coach looking to start out and you haven't done any coaching qualifications or any other form of study, you really should, uh, you should look at that pathway.
Now, also, once I've gone through the coaching, uh, study and qualifications, we're gonna look at small business and what you should look at studying to run your own business.
But even if you don't run your own business and you work for someone, you are almost running your own business by building your clientele, building your private lessons, okay? Building your, your adult programs.
Whatever it might be, um, a lot of the lessons of business are going to apply to you even if you're a coach working for somebody else.
Right, so do you actually need to study to become a tennis coach? Not necessarily.
You could easily just take-- go from playing the game and, and transfer into the coaching without actually studying it.
Uh, you may still even be effective, right? If you, if you're good at breaking things down and, and, and teaching people, um, you may be effective.
But look, I have to recommend that you do do some study and you do do some qualifications to become a tennis coach.
And I'm gonna go through what I've done and why I found it beneficial, and why I think that you, if you're a coach looking to start out and you haven't done any coaching qualifications or any other form of study, you really should, uh, you should look at that pathway.
Now, also, once I've gone through the coaching, uh, study and qualifications, we're gonna look at small business and what you should look at studying to run your own business.
But even if you don't run your own business and you work for someone, you are almost running your own business by building your clientele, building your private lessons, okay? Building your, your adult programs.
Whatever it might be, um, a lot of the lessons of business are going to apply to you even if you're a coach working for somebody else.
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