Carla She has been a member of the Professional Tennis Registry for over 18 years. She is a certified referee and umpire for USTA professional and college tennis. She has officiated numerous times at the US Open and was named 2017 USTA Southern Tennis Official of the Year.

She has been a certified high school coach for St. Agnes Academy for 20 years and has served on the Memphis

Tennis Association board of directors. Carla teaches adult and junior clinics and serves as director of our tennis program.

Marcella is a native Memphian and received her Bachelor and Master's Degree in Education from University of Memphis. She was the assistant tennis coach at Rhodes College for 23 years where she directed junior tennis camps and taught private and group lessons.

She has run our Juniors Tennis camp for the last several years. She teaches our beginner clinics, adult clinics and works with our Junior beginner and intermediate players. Marcella is also a 7th degree black belt and teaches self defense classes and karate at St. Marys Episcopal School.

Sarah is a certified Cardio tennis instructor and teaches Junior Clinics as well as Adult Clinics and private lessons. She emphasizes strokes, strategy and footwork in her fast paced clinics.

Sarah worked at Rhodes College and served as Women's tennis coach for 38 years as well as Head Men's tennis coach for 24 years and Women's Head basketball coach 20 years. Her teams have been ranked top 10 in the NCAA.

She also holds a 8th degree black belt in PaSaRyu and a black belt in ITF Taekwondo. She obviously has lots of coaching experience!

Dale Thompson was born in Memphis and began paying tennis at age 9. He was a sucessful junior playier achieving number one ranking in TN for several years. Dale continued playing tennis at the NAIA and Division 1 level while attending Harding University and University of Memphis.

His love and enthusiasm for tennis along with his understanding of the game, the strokes, amd the strategy gives him an outstanding approach to instructing individuals and teams on how to achieve their best on the courts. He teaches adult and junior clinics/lessons as well as team clinics.

Keita is the program director for our High Performance Junior players. These players are competitive junior players who have aspirations of playing college or even professional tennis. He also teaches private lessons, adult clinics and team lessons.

Coach Keita has a strong commitment to player development and provides individual assessment plans based on performance during private lessons, group training and match and tournament play. He has a track record of producing players who win tournaments at all levels and most of his players receive full college tennis scholarships.

Liza.has worked as Smashing Aces for several years teaching all levels of juniors and adult players.

Liza is from the Ukraine and started playing tennis at age 8 and was a finalist at the Ukraine Summer Championships and a semi finalist at the Ukraine Winter Championships in 2009. She played the WTA tour for a couple of years where she achieved her highest ranking of #967

She graduated from University of Memphis after playing tennis there from 2012-1015.

Bill has been in the racket service industry since 1975 and can match your style of play to the best string and tension to help you gain more power, control and consistency. Also custom stringing is available for those who need more comfort due to wrist, shoulder or elbow pain. The goal is to put the right string and tension into your frame for optimal performance.

Bill is also Facebook editor, photographer and creative side.He can answer any questions and is always around to help with all the day to day activities. Normally you will see him with his wife Brenda who also assists at the desk in the pro shop.