Private Tennis Lessons
vs Structured Coaching

What Most People Call "Private Tennis Lessons"

A private lesson, in the traditional sense, is one hour with a coach. You turn up, the coach feeds balls and fixes what he sees that day, maybe runs a drill or two, and then you go home. Next week you do it again, except the priorities have drifted and the feedback is different because last week is already forgotten.

For a beginner finding their feet, that is honestly fine. But for anyone who wants to actually get better - cleaner strokes, smarter tactics, results in matches - it runs into one wall: there is no system.

What Structured Coaching Actually Means

Structured coaching starts before you ever hit a ball with me. A Performance Assessment sets the technical baseline, pins down exactly what is holding the player back, and turns it into a development plan with clear priorities. From there, every session follows that plan on purpose, in order, with checkpoints I can measure against.

This is not about "better sessions." It puts a player on a completely different trajectory. In my experience the ones who train inside a system improve faster, hold their corrections instead of losing them by next week, and - the part that really counts - carry practice into actual matches.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Why Serious Players Choose the System

Serious players never have enough court time - the competitive amateur with a day job, the tournament player chasing points, the junior trying to make the next level. That is why an unstructured hour stings: it should have moved them forward and instead just kept them busy.

In Prague, a real structured system is genuinely hard to find. Plenty of coaches will sell you lessons; very few run an actual program. Over years of development that gap is the whole game.

The Entry Point: Performance Assessment

Everyone I take on starts with the same 90-minute Performance Assessment. It is a proper diagnostic, not a friendly "let's see how you hit" intro. You walk away with a written technical analysis, the specific priorities I would work on first, and a clear path forward.

It costs 3,400 CZK (≈ €139), and if you go on to train with me that fee comes straight off the coaching program. It is the only door into the system, and I keep it that way on purpose.