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.

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.

JAMES WHITE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH

Nationality: British

PROFILE
With 8 years coaching experience working with players of all ages and standards from grassroots through to aspiring professionals, I aim to pass on the knowledge and experience I have gained to improve everyones game using simple techniques and drills in a fun way.

As a player, i grew up with Tennis from the age of 4 and regularly competed in tournaments at county level in England and take pleasure in seeing my pupils improve whilst enjoying the game of Tennis

I have my level 1 and level 2 coaching qualification so am highly qualified to coach beginners through to National players!!

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!