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 successful junior player 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, amid 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.

Trip Wills played on the University of Mississippi men's tennis tennis and at White Station High School. He loves working with Adult and Juniors to improve their tennis game. He has taught in Memphis for years and ran junior development programs as well as coaching players.

Coach Trip will be teaching junior Red Ball clinics, tournament and high performance junior players for Smashing Aces. He will also conduct Adult clinics and private lessons for Adults..

Keita works with 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.

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.