EXPERIENCE THE THRILL: WORLD-CLASS TENNIS COACHES CONVENE AT SADILI OVAL
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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE AUGUST TENNIS EVENT AT SADILI OVAL SPORTS ACADEMY WITH WORLD-CLASS TENNIS COACHES.
Sadili Oval Sports Club will be hosting the annual EastAfrica Safari tennis experience from the 8th to the 10th of August 2024. This event
features World Class Couches who will provide a couch clinic and an opportunity
for High school tennis players to be interviewed for US College selections. The
World Class couches who will be running this event include EMMA DOYLE
from AUSTRALIA, TINA SAMARA from the United States, LIZ ODERA from
KENYA, and JUDY MURRAY from SCOTLAND.
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LET’S MEET THE COACHES PROPER.
EMMA DOYLE
Emma Doyle is your ENERGY COACH! She is an international
high-performance tennis coach turned corporate coach specializing in helping
leaders and teams harness their energy, discover their purpose, and achieve
high performance under pressure. She does this by inviting her clients to adopt
a curious champion mindset and utilizing proven coaching tools to unleash human
potential.
She is a coach, mentor, and keynote speaker who is
sought after around the world. She can help you turn your motivation into
activation. She is a former D1 US college tennis player and has represented her
native country of Australia as a world team coach on 20 occasions. Emma
utilizes the lessons that she has learned from being an international
high-performance tennis coach and transfers these skills into her corporate
coaching. She is a qualified Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the
International Coach Federation (ICF) and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming and
Emotional Intelligence certified practitioner.
TINA SAMARA
Tina Samara begins her second year as an assistant coach
and third season overall on the Colorado coaching staff.
Samara brings 21 years of tennis expertise both as a
player and as a coach to the Boulder campus. She has participated as a tennis
professional since 1996 and has coached at the national, collegiate, and
professional levels. As an active member on the USTA/WTA/LTA Pro Tour, Samara
also played on the Federation Cup for Norway in 1996-1998, and qualified for
the U.S. Open singles draw in 1994 and 1995.
Also in 1995, Samara was listed in Sports Illustrated
“Faces in the Crowd.”
As a tennis professional at the Creek Club in Locust
Valley, N.Y., Samara developed a fitness program for men and women, in addition
to instructing adults, juniors and clinics.
Not just an experienced tennis professional, Samara is
also an experienced golf pro participating in numerous mini-tours across the
United States. In 2003, she was a quarterfinalist at the Florida Women’s Open
and the New York State Amateur, respectively. In 2003, Samara claimed top
honors at the N.Y. State Public Links.
Dr. LIZ ODERA
With 22 years coaching experience, Liz has successfully
developed a large number of juniors in tennis, who have represented their
respective national teams, played international tennis events (including grand
slams French, Wimbledon and US Open), earned important scholarships to colleges
and high schools in Europe and USA, and gained WTA/ITF ranking.
A qualified PTR Professional, Clinician and Tester, and
former professional player, Liz was Captain of the Women’s Tennis Team,
Kenyatta University, 1983 – 1986, and one of the top seeded ladies in tennis in
Kenya, having won many national, and university awards.
A former director at top sports club (Sadili Oval) in
Nairobi, with experience in running training sessions, camps and tournaments.
As a high performance coach, she has developed players for tours, to national
team positions, WTA/ITF ranking, junior grand slams (French, US and Wimbledon)
and more than 20 players into Division I College tennis scholarships.
Head Pro at Karen Country Club (Nairobi) has experience
running adult tennis leagues, full junior academy programs, club programming,
and national tournaments. Currently a member of the North Carolina Tennis
Association Junior Tournament Committee and keynote speaker for 2017 USTA North
Carolina Community Tennis Development Workshop in Greensboro.
JUDY MURRAY
Murray was born on 8 September 1959 in Bridge of Allan,
Stirlingshire, the daughter of Alison Shirley (nÊe Edney) and Roy Erskine, an
optician and former footballer who had played for Stirling Albion in the
1950s.She says that growing up, there were no indoor tennis courts in Scotland,
so she played tennis in the summer and badminton in the winter. She won 64
titles in Scotland during her junior and senior career, and decided to have a
go at the professional tour in around 1976.Murray gave up the idea of competing
professionally as she was homesick and was robbed in Barcelona. However, she
had played against players such as Debbie Jevans and Mariana Simionescu.Murray
claims that her playing style did not have any big shots, but she was quick
around the court and read the game well.She decided to go to the University of
Edinburgh to study French and German, before dropping German in favour of
business studies. In 1981, she graduated from the University of Edinburgh and
represented Great Britain at the World Student Games. She began coaching and
was the initial coach for both her sons before handing over the reins as their
professional careers bloomed. In the early 1980s, Murray lived in the West End
of Glasgow and was a member of Broomhill Lawn Tennis and Squash club, winning
the Club Championships three times and playing for its teams (under her maiden
name). She remains a visitor to the club.
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