Introducing Cutting Edge Coaches at the EA Annual Tennis Experience for Tennis Professionals, Sadili

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 (née 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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