Nobody is watching, nobody cares that you have not played since college, and nobody is going to make you do drills in front of a group of strangers. Just an hour, a coach, and the parts of your game that are actually holding you back. From $100.
The most common thing an adult beginner says in a first lesson is a version of "sorry, I am terrible at this." You are not terrible at this. You have never been taught it. Those are completely different problems and only one of them takes an hour to start fixing.
Adults learn tennis differently from children — faster in some ways, because you can understand an explanation, and slower in others, because you will overthink a swing that a nine-year-old just copies. Good adult coaching works with that instead of against it: fewer instructions at once, clear reasons behind each one, and enough live ball early on that it feels like tennis rather than homework.
We start adults at every age. Thirties, fifties, seventies. The oldest players in this program started later than the youngest ones did, and several of them now play twice a week.
Returning players are the most rewarding group to coach and the most frustrating to be. You know what the shot is supposed to feel like. Your body has quietly renegotiated the terms.
In practice, returning players usually need three things: a technical audit of what has drifted, a movement reset so the feet get there in time, and permission to stop trying to hit the shot they could hit at twenty-two. That last one is often the one that unlocks the rest.
Most returning players see a visible difference inside four to six sessions — not because anything dramatic changed, but because the two or three drifted habits get corrected before they become permanent.
If you play USTA league, club ladders or serious social doubles, the coaching changes shape. Technique still matters, but the wins come from tactics: serve placement, return position, poaching, who covers what on a lob, and what your team actually does when the pace goes up.
Doubles is coached properly here rather than treated as singles with a partner in the way. Positioning, movement as a pair, communication patterns and the specific formations that beat the teams you keep losing to.
Adults competing at a decent level are usually better served booking Markos at $120 — the technical and tactical depth is what the extra twenty dollars buys.
Early mornings before work, lunch hours, and evenings after six are the slots adults actually keep. We coach across all of them, and we book the court, which removes the single most common reason adult players stop taking lessons — the admin.
If you want a fixed weekly slot, say so when you book. Holding the same hour every week is far more effective than fitting a lesson in when you remember, and the weekly package makes it cheaper per session as well.
And you would rather not learn in front of a group. Completely normal, and the fastest way to get to actually rallying.
You played years ago and want the shots back without rebuilding a shoulder injury in the process.
And you are losing the same matches to the same patterns. That is a tactical problem, and it is fixable.
Tennis you can actually rally in is far better exercise than tennis you spend picking up balls. Getting competent is the point.
Ten minutes of rallying so the coach can see your real game, not your best-behaviour version of it.
What is working, what is costing you points, and which single change would make the biggest difference fastest.
Focused repetition, then live ball, then points — because a change that only survives on a feed is not a change.
One clear thing to practise or think about before next time, in language you will still remember on Saturday.
Complete beginners and improving-beginner adults are Hayk's strongest work at $100. Adults at a solid intermediate level or above — especially anyone competing — will get more out of Markos at $120.
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 rate on this site is the rate you pay. No booking fee, no platform commission, no membership.
| Session | Hayk | Markos |
|---|---|---|
| Private lesson (1 hour)One-on-one, one hour, on a court near you | $100 | $120 |
| Weekly package — 2+ sessions per weekBilled per session, structured plan and progress tracking | $90 / session | $110 / session |
| Group lesson (3–4 players)Drill-based session with live point play | $55 / player | $55 / player |
| High-level hitting partner (1 hour)Competitive-intensity rallying, patterns and match simulation | — | $120 |
| Semi-private for twoSiblings, partners and doubles pairs — ask when you book | On request | On request |
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No. That is the tennis equivalent of tidying up before the cleaner arrives. Lessons are paced to the player, and rallying is a far better route into fitness than a treadmill you will stop using in March.
We coach adults into their seventies who started in their sixties. Tennis is unusually kind to late starters because technique and shot selection matter more than raw athleticism at recreational level.
Yes. Positioning, poaching, serve and return patterns, communication and formations — coached as its own game rather than as singles with an extra person on court.
Yes, semi-private sessions for two are available on request. It is a popular option for couples and for doubles partners who want to be coached as a pair.
Most adults notice something inside two or three sessions and see a clear difference around six. That assumes you are also playing between lessons — coaching without play is the slowest possible route.
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.
