PRIVATE COACHING
Take your game to the next level with 1:1 training
GROUP COACHING
Perfect for small groups who want lessions together
JUNIOR COACHING
Get into tennis at a young age! Our junior coaching starts at 4 years old
Coaching, be it in group or individual sessions, can really up your game! It can help improve your consistency on the baseline, and help you find and develop your strengths to finish off the point. Consistency is a fundamental part of the game; usually the player who makes fewer errors tends to win. However, you also need to balance this with attack to force your opponent into errors of their own.
Venues
I’m a self-employed coach and although not directly employed by the clubs, the committees help financially by supporting our weekly sessions, partly covering the costs of weather-affected group sessions, plus a yearly retainer fee. And most importantly, use of the courts and floodlights.
In return, I offer a variety of coaching sessions for both members, non-members and juniors, with the aim of furthering membership numbers, helping to retain the members we already have, and basically, to get more people playing tennis.
COACHING
Coaching, be it in group or individual sessions, can really up your game! It can help improve your consistency on the baseline, and help you find and develop your strengths to finish off the point. Consistency is a fundamental part of the game; usually the player who makes fewer errors tends to win. However, you also need to balance this with attack to force your opponent into errors of their own.
Why I love my job
Seeing the juniors develop. I was tempted to the club by Paul Khan, who was coach at the time, and attended a few of our after-school tennis sessions at Leiston. Therefore it feels like everything has come full circle every-time I attend Alde Valley and deliver after-school sessions myself.
The variation in clients throughout a weeks’ work, from juniors as young as three starting their journey into tennis, to the senior stalwarts of the game.
The members, without all your support I wouldn’t have the chance to do a job I love, therefore I’m extremely thankful for all those that pick up a racket and join me on the court.
What They Say
Lawrence Killian
After moving from West Yorkshire to Suffolk in 2021, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to find a quality tennis teacher in my new area. I took up tennis for the first time after I semi-retired in 2019 and had an excellent teacher for two years. I needn’t have been worried! Matt Last, the tennis coach at Saxmundham Tennis Club, took me on when I joined in the summer of 2021, and I have been with him ever since. Matt has helped me immeasurably. As a new ‘older’ tennis player, he has been successful in hard-wiring an array of tennis techniques and game-play strategies that I didn’t think would be possible. His teaching approach is outstanding. His lessons are well-planned, methodical, well-targeted, and appropriately challenging so that clear progress is made at each lesson. He is able to analyse what is required to improve my playing quickly, and he sets clear and specific objectives.Matt is very personable, and nothing seems to faze him. I have seen him take large groups of more than twenty youngsters at a time during extended tennis sessions at the club. He takes this in his stride and always quickly gains their trust, and activities begin with minimal fuss. Matt Last has helped to make my tennis activities very enjoyable, meaningful, and fulfilling. A side effect of all of this is that it is keeping me fit too. I can’t thank him enough, and I highly recommend him as a teacher for anyone wanting to get more out of their tennis playing'
What They Say
Frances Paul, Chairwomen
I have known Matthew Last for several years and attend different tennis classes on a weekly basis where he makes us all feel welcome. I have also had individual coaching to help improve my technique and love of the game, He shows really passion and is an excellent coach'