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Elite Tennis Performance

Elite Tennis Performance

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Suffolk, VA

About

Being a very experienced multi-certified Tennis Teaching Professional:

- 12 time USTA NATIONAL COACH & NATIONAL CHAMPION COACH (2024 & 2026)

- Professional Tennis Registry (PTR), TENNIS Adults/Juniors/Performance (L3)

- Racquet Sports Professional Association (RSPA) TENNIS (ELITE)

- PTR PICKELLBALL (PROFESSIONAL)

- RSPA PICKELLBALL (PROFESSIONAL)

- USTA High Performance Sport Science TENNIS Certified Coach

- TRX TENNIS Fitness CERTIFIED

- Etcheberry TENNIS Fitness CERTIFIED (ELITE)

- Black Tennis Hall of Fame Inductee (2025)

With a tremendous and unprecedented volume of years in national & international player centered coaching experiences with Teams, Juniors, & Adults, I'm humbly excited to see your development via "experiential learning," "guided discovery," and repeatable skills set embedding... while laughing & having a lot of F U N!

-I enjoy seeing your measurable tennis developments! Seeing your passion grow & your abilities springboard into your tennis understanding, confidence, positive postures, and sportsmanship!

Hearing you say "oh yeah... I got this"!!!

Let's begin...

Your serve!

THANKS for contacting me...


Highlights

Hired 2 times
3 employees
22 years in business
Serves Suffolk, VA

Payment methods

Cash, Check, Venmo, Paypal, Zelle

Specialties

Experience level

No experience, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Student age(s)

Under 5 years old, 5 – 10 years old, 11 – 13 years old, 14 – 18 years old, 19 – 25 years old, 26 – 45 years old, 46 – 65 years old, Over 65 years old

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    DL

    David L.

    Coach Widener is an excellent tennis instructor and an inspiring mentor. He helps to develop all aspects of the player, including technique, fitness, strategy, confidence, resilience, focus, a winning mindset, setting goals, and achieving. My daughter loves tennis but has grown tremendously as a player under Coach Wideners instruction and mentorship.
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    February 15, 2021

    CI

    Cornelia I.

    My first lesson :o) Nothing to complain about! Donald is really a professional!
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    February 15, 2021

    KW

    Kristi w.

    Private Tennis Instruction
    Donald is an extraordinary tennis coach. His experience is on the professional level and his teaching style works well with both adults as well as youth; the novice as well as the experienced. He taught me more in an hour than most would teach in months. Hes definitely the best out there! -Kristi Watts
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    February 15, 2021

    Frequently asked questions

    I call it "open-closed-open" 

    - chat about the "what your looking for ... goals/dreams"

    - look at current level / skill set

    - do some awareness & polishing 

    - go back to open 4 application of skills

    - ALWAYS have FUN!!! 

    A few certifications: 

    ▪︎Professional Tennis Registry (PTR)

    ▪︎United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) ELITE

    ▪︎USTA High Performance Sport Science Coach

    Professional Pickellball Registry PPR Certified

    ▪︎TRX Group   

    ▪︎Etcheberry ELITE Certified)

    ▪︎National &; International elite tennis coaching experiences: USTA National NJTL Camps, USTA Zonal Coach (Champion), USTA U S OPEN Arthur Ashe Kids Day Lead Coach, College of William & Mary Head Teaching Pro and more...

    Via a summer tennis program. The Coach said I did well and asked me to come back next season as a summer tennis coach... so I happily did and kept coming back!
    Juniors ADULTS Wheelchair Kids w Austim
    ACEING AUTISM @ CITI OPEN USTA BREWER TEAM CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
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    Is coach player centered or otherwise ... Otherwise is NOT GOOD

    Services offered

    Tennis
    Pickleball Lessons