Coaching

Gavid Vickers – Head Coach – 07976 057 454

Licensed (LTA) Level 4 Senior Club Coach

Having coached and trained the current crop of top adult players at the club Gavid has a great understanding of what it takes to compete at a high level and while it is nice to produce players and create the next generation of high performance players the true sense of purpose and fulfilment comes from seeing the children who struggle make progress.

Gavid has been instrumental in the delivery of our aspiration to introduce hundreds of new children and adults into our programmes and it is his intention to widen this success across Thanet. 

Dave Houseman – Club Coach – 07930 301 254

Licensed (LTA) Level 4 Coach

When it come to tennis coaching experience counts, as Dave has been coaching for over 30 years and has a vast amount of experience coaching individuals from recreational level to an international standard. 

Dave’s impressive resumé includes a position in “Dennis Van Der Meer” which is a high profile tennis performance academy in the USA and the Peter McNamara academy.

Dave’s playing standard was also exceptionally high, playing both county tennis and competing at college level in the US. 

Reece Mabberly – Club Coach – 07377 451973

Licensed (LTA) Level 3 Coach 

Reece began his tennis career at Margate Tennis club as a junior.   He began his coaching journey with the tennis leaders course and continued to gain his Level 1,2 and 3 LTA qualifications. Reece’s expertise are definitely routed in performance and has a track record of teaching county and high level players.

Reece then had an opportunity to work full time at the world renowned “La Manga” Tennis academy in Spain for 2 years as a tennis professional in their performance programme. Working with many ITF junior, National and county players from all over the world.