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Mandy Franks Profile

HPC Director, District Tennis Development Officer

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Mandy was voted LTA Coach of the Year 2001 for training the first ever back to back British 18u and 16u male player. Mandy has coached three 18u and 16u British players to championship titles and many players with national and international rankings. She has played sport to a high level including numerous representations for Herts at County week and county cup, satellite circuit experiences and represented England at hockey.

Mandy set up and developed the first LTA/ITI tennis development and outreach programme in the UK as joint TDO and Head Pro at Batchwood, St Albans in 1988. This led to working on behalf of the LTA to train a further 14 ITI TDO's and assist in the design and implementation of their programmes. She then initiated Batchwood to become the first performance LTA centre/club and recently one of the first four LTA/High Performance Centres.

Mandy has travelled extensively to international junior and senior tournaments and her work involves developing young talented players from mini tennis into promising performance players. She has trained national age group winners and players who have achieved top 100 junior ITF rankings and then transfered to the WTA and ATP tour.

Mandy has tutored for eighteen years and currently tutoring at all levels of the LTA tutoring spectrum including the PCA Award, CCA, DCA, Level 1, CDC, CTS and ITS programmes. Recently, Mandy has trained extensive numbers of coaches on the LTA Individualised Coach Development Programme. Mandy has also lectured in Sports Science and Physical Education at Brunel University part-time for five years, taught at a primary and secondary school for 3 years and worked on behalf of the ITF in the middle east.

Specialist areas of knowledge include sports psychology, technical and tactical training, designing and implementing development and performance programmes, mentoring players to develop winning match play methods and mentoring coaches in the workplace.

"I believe that Liz Jones and Mandy Franks have been around long enough to know what is required to develop top players" - Judy Murray LTA National Coach

Click here to email Mandy Franks



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