Coaching Team

SARAH SUCKLING – COMPANY DIRECTOR

Nationality: British

PROFILE
Sarah started the wonderful sport of tennis at school when she was only 9 years old. She soon became county No 1 in short tennis, now known as Mini tennis. Once Sarah turned 10 she moved on to full size tennis. Within the first year of being an active member of a tennis club she won the U16's Junior tournament. Until the age of 16, Sarah travelled the UK playing different counties playing and winning Junior open tournaments.

Her coaching career started when she was 20 years of age and she now has 13 years of coaching experience. Whilst living in the UK, she coached in government and public schools, co-coordinating tournaments and leagues. Sarah is a registered British tennis coach with the LTA Development Coaching Award, British Coaching in Schools Award and LTA Leader’s Course. Since living in Singapore Sarah has attended a registry of coaches workshop conducted by Mr. Doug Macurdy, USA Director of Development of ITF and has experience of coaching many infants, juniors and adults of different levels. Sarah has a real passion for teaching young children and hopes as they grow they will develop a love of the game and enjoy playing tennis throughout their adult life.

ADAM DOYLE - HEAD COACH

Nationality: Australian

PROFILE
My name is Adam Doyle and I am AST's Head Coach. I am from Australia. I have over 12 years of coaching experience in 5 countries. To improve your game no matter how young, old or experienced you are, I will help you become a better player. My method of coaching is simple; to adapt to each individual and their style of play. You will be confident on each part of your game and that your game will progress as well. I thrive on seeing every client improve.

I am a certified professional coach with the USPTR. I played College tennis in the USA for a division one school where I obtained a degree in sports management. My family have played tennis all their life, with my brother Grant being a former number one junior in the world and top 200 ranked professional.

NEILS KHOE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH

Nationality: Indonesian

PROFILE
My name is Neils Khoe, I am from Indonesia. I have played a lot of tournaments including National level & ITF tournaments. I have good experience of coaching mini tennis, junior pro players, and adults of all different levels. I have reached Coaching Certificate Level 1 and have attended several training programmes and have learned many teaching skills in the game of tennis. I have coaching experience in tennis clubs in Jakarta & Singapore and I am now happy to be working for The Advantage School of Tennis.

LOURELU MARI ALBURO

Nationality: Philippines

PROFILE
My name is Lourelu Mari Alburo (Bo), and I am originally from the Philippines. I started playing tennis as a junior and was ranked as #2 in my country. I went on to represent the Philippines as a player in Brunei in the Asian Schools Tennis Tournament and in the Arafura Games held in Darwin, Australia. As I grew up, I played in National and International level tournaments. Before coming to Singapore, I became a Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Certified Instructor and for the last 7 years I have worked for several schools and tennis institutions. Tennis is my passion and I am looking forward to being part of the coaching team with Advantage School of Tennis.

DMITRY POZDNYAKOV

Nationality: Russia

PROFILE
My name is Dima and I am originally from Russia. I started playing tennis when I was 7 years old as a competitor of international youthful competitions and became a finalist in many National Tournaments. During my youth, I trained in Sochi with coaches who trained top famous tennis players such as Eugenie Kafelnikov and Maria Sharapova. I played and acted as a sparring partner for 6 years at one of the famous tennis schools in St Petersburg where many of the top Russian tennis players train. I have experience of coaching with children and adults of all abilities, from beginners to young professional as touring players. My greatest coaching achievement to-date has been assisting one of my students to win the U16s Junior tournament in France earlier this year.

Before coming to Singapore to advance my tennis coaching profession, I studied at Saint Petersburg National State University from 2003 until 2009 where I graduated with an honours degree in Theory and Principles of Big Tennis.

I believe it is never too late to start playing tennis, but the best time to begin is in childhood. Tennis is often known as ‘chess on the move’. It is excellent for both intellectual and physical development. Tennis is perfect for harmony, health and beauty!

JOSEPH CANETE

Nationality: Philippines

PROFILE
Joseph also well known as Jojo combines a dynamic personality with a high energy style of coaching. He is immensely gifted, skilful and an accommodating tennis coach.

Whilst Tots and Mini Tennis is his forte, he works well with the adults too. He provides private tennis mentoring and coaching to our students in all different levels from novice to high performance coaching. Jojo has taken and reached the Level 1 Coaching and a certified tennis instructor (Professional Tennis Registry). His playing experience gives him a great depth of understanding of technique and strategy which he imparts eloquently to his students.

In addition to his skills, he used to teach music to children.

RASKO

Nationality: Serbian

PROFILE
I'm Rasko from Serbia and I have been playing tennis since 7 years old. I've played all tennis level tournaments apart from ATP in over 15 different countries. I trained with all the Serbian players that are on tour currently whose rankings are in the top 30 juniors in Europe. To be coaching from almost all around the world, I can fit perfectly into all levels and ages. I was a hitting partner for Cyprus' national team.

I am licensed with Registro Professional de Tennis (RPT) and I finished college with degree in Business Management.

SIDD SUDHAKAR

Nationality: Indian

PROFILE
My name is Sidd and I grew up playing tennis in India. I was ranked the top ten Juniors in India in all age groups and an ITF Junior World Ranking of 320 in Singles and 280 in Doubles. Ranking of top 15 NCAA Division 2 colleges in the US, I played for Anderson University at No 1 Singles and No 1 Doubles.

I've worked under some of the biggest coaches in tennis such as David Porter - Head of Asian Tennis Federation, Brett Simpson – Head Coach of Lander University and Tomas Ollestad – Director of Delray Beach Florida. Apart from working under the biggest coaches, I have worked in Connecticut, USA in some of the biggest tennis clubs in the North East. I am happy to be working for Advantage School of Tennis now and I am looking forward to coach you!