Markos Tennis is two coaches working across Pasadena and the eastern side of Los Angeles. No franchise, no marketplace, no rotating roster of instructors you have never met.
Markos Mkrtchyan came through a European training background, competed internationally, and has spent the last five years coaching in Los Angeles — including at Khachatryan Tennis Academy in Burbank. Over that time he has worked with more than a hundred students, from six-year-olds through to tournament juniors and competitive adults.
What became obvious across those years is that most players are not badly coached. They are wrongly coached. Beginners get put with performance coaches who explain in a language they do not speak. Competitive juniors get put in group clinics that cannot give them what they need. Both leave believing they are the problem.
Markos Tennis is built around fixing that specific thing. Two coaches, each genuinely strong at a different end of the game, and an honest conversation at the start about which one you should be with.
Every player gets matched before they get booked. Every session has a plan behind it rather than an hour of feeding. Every parent gets a message after a junior lesson describing what their child actually worked on. And the person who answers the phone is the person who will be on the court with you.
We arrange courts across Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, Arcadia, La Cañada Flintridge, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Glendale, Burbank and Downtown Los Angeles, so no membership is needed anywhere.
The plan is to grow this into a proper junior program — more coaches, group development squads, holiday camps — without losing the thing that makes it work now, which is that a player is coached by someone who knows their game rather than by whoever had a gap in the diary.
We will announce new programs here as they open. In the meantime, what is on this site is exactly what we run.
Both teach the full game and both take any player. Tell us the age and level and we will say which of them we would put you with — you are matched, not just slotted in.
No booking platform, no service fee, no rotating instructor you have never met. You text the coach who will be on the court with you.
Every player gets a short plan — what we are changing, in what order, and what it should look like in four weeks. Parents get a message after each lesson.
No membership required. Tell us where you are between Downtown LA and the foothills and we arrange a court close to you.
Both coaches teach the whole game to every level — technique, footwork, serve, movement and match play. What differs is who each one is on court with most weeks. Book whichever suits your schedule; if you would rather we picked, just tell us the age and level.
Hayk coaches every level, and spends most of his week with juniors and players starting out — patient, genuinely fun to train with, and relentless about clean fundamentals.
Markos coaches every level, and spends most of his week with 3.0-and-up players — cleaner mechanics, sharper patterns, and matches that start going the other way.
Every review below was written by a real student or parent through the form on this site. We do not edit them and we do not buy them.
“I have been training with Markos for some time, and I can confidently say that he is one of the best coaches I have worked with. His training sessions are always well-organized, professional, and tailored to help players improve their skills effectively. I highly recommend him to everyone!”Arman A.Private Lesson · Adult Intermediate
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Tell us the player, the level and the part of town. We will match you to the right coach and arrange the court — usually the same day you ask.
