Why three or four and not twelve
The cheapest tennis coaching in Los Angeles is a large clinic, and the reason it is cheap is that the coach is divided twelve ways. You get movement, you get a workout, and you get roughly four minutes of individual attention across an hour.
At three or four players the maths changes completely. The coach can still watch each player hit properly, corrections still land, and there is enough of a group for competitive drills and point play that a private lesson cannot produce. It is the sweet spot, and it is why we cap groups where we do.
At $55 a player it also happens to be the best value on this site by a distance.
How a group session runs
Warm-up and movement, then a technical focus that everyone works on with individual corrections, then drills that build into live-ball games, then competitive point play — usually with some kind of scoring format so the hour has stakes.
The format works for adult friends who play together, for parents who want their children to train alongside friends, and for junior groups of a similar standard. What it does not work for is a group with a wide level spread — someone always ends up bored and someone always ends up lost.
Bringing your own group, or joining one
The simplest version is that you already have three or four people. Tell us the group, the rough level and when you can all make it, and we will run it.
If you do not have a group, tell us your level and what times work and we will try to match you with others looking for the same thing. We will not put you in a group that is a poor fit just to fill it — if the match is not there, we will say so and suggest a semi-private or a private instead.
Both coaches run group sessions and both take any level. Junior groups usually sit with Hayk and adult or competitive groups with Markos, but that follows the diary rather than a rule. The $55 per player rate is the same either way.