Hey, Nate here, Director of Instruction at PlayYourCourt.

Here's the deal.

Most players try to get better at tennis in one of two ways.

The first is online instruction.

There's a ton of tennis coaching online. Some of it comes from really good coaches, like Scott and me 🙂 and some of it comes from people who frankly have no idea what they're talking about.

Find the right coaches and you can learn a ton.

But there's one big problem:

The coach teaching you has never actually seen YOU play.

They haven't seen your forehand. They don't know what happens to your serve under pressure. They don't know your level, your tendencies, your movement, or why you keep losing to the same type of player.

So online instruction works great until you run into a problem you can't diagnose yourself.

And that's where most players eventually get stuck.

The second option is your local tennis pro.

Typically great people. Good players. And very good at the job they were hired to do: run clinics, teach fundamentals and manage 40+ hours of lessons every week.

But if you're serious about making a major jump in your game, your local pro probably isn't the answer either.

Think about it this way:

An NFL quarterback who needs shoulder surgery doesn't go to the local orthopedic clinic because it's ten minutes from his house.

He gets on a plane and goes to the absolute best surgeon he can find.

Someone who has performed that exact surgery thousands of times. Someone who can look at his shoulder, immediately recognize the problem and know exactly what needs to happen to produce the best possible outcome.

The best tennis coaches in the world probably aren't down the street from you.

They're running elite academies. Developing nationally ranked juniors. Coaching high-level college and professional players. And even when recreational players can get access to them, they typically cost $1,000+ for an hour on court.

Which means most recreational players never get to experience what truly elite coaching could do for their game.

And we think that's a huge problem.

Because you might think you've hit your ceiling.

You might think you're just a 3.5 player.

You might even have spent the last three or four years bouncing around the same level despite playing more matches, taking more lessons and watching more instruction.

But Scott and I have each spent our careers developing players, including taking dozens of kids from mediocre junior players all the way to Division I college athletes.

We've seen firsthand how quickly a player can improve when the right coach identifies the right problems and gives them the right plan.

So if a kid can make that kind of transformation in a few years, there is absolutely no reason a motivated adult should spend those same few years playing three times a week and barely getting any better.

And this is where we think recreational tennis gets coaching completely wrong.

You probably don't need more instruction.You need a better diagnosis.

There's a massive difference.

Let's say your backhand keeps breaking down.

A typical lesson might focus on the backhand.

Get the racket back earlier. Finish higher. Bend your knees. Accelerate through contact.

And maybe some of that helps.

But an elite coach might watch you play and realize your backhand isn't actually the problem at all.

• Maybe your recovery position is leaving you late to the next ball.
• Maybe your spacing is wrong.
• Maybe the way you move to the ball is forcing you to make contact six inches too close to your body.

Fix the root cause and suddenly a bunch of the symptoms disappear with it.

That's what great coaches do differently.

They don't just see what went wrong.

They understand why it went wrong.

And once you understand the why, improvement can happen incredibly fast.

We've seen this happen in a matter of hours over and over again with our private students.

One of our players recently came to train with us in person.

She was already serious about tennis. She had coaches back home. She was taking lessons. She was putting in the work.

After spending three hours on court with us at one of our doubles workshops, she gave us a testimonial we hear all the time:

Think about that.

Same player.

Same athletic ability.

Same desire to improve.

The variable that changed was the coaching.

We were able to see things other coaches hadn't, get to the root of what was actually holding her back, and show her what she needed to change.

And we've seen this over and over again throughout our coaching careers.

That got us thinking:

How do we give more players these same results without asking them to get on a plane and fly halfway across the world to train with us?

The answer to that question is now PlayYourCourt Elite.

Introducing PlayYourCourt Elite

Elite is not another online tennis course.

It isn't a library of videos.

And it isn't trading one local lesson for another.

We used our global coaching network to find the absolute best coaches we could.

Every Elite coach is hand-selected by Scott and me, and each one is certified among the top 1% of tennis professionals in the world.

But credentials alone aren't enough for us.

We only chose coaches who see the game the way we do.

Coaches who can watch you play, separate the symptoms from the root cause, and figure out what's actually keeping you from getting better.

That group of coaches is PlayYourCourt Elite. When you join, we pair you with one of them.

Not for one lesson.

They become your coach.

From the moment you join Elite, you're assigned a dedicated coach who gets to know your game, your goals, your strengths, your weaknesses and the players you keep losing to.

• You'll be able to communicate directly with them through the PlayYourCourt platform.
• You'll meet with them weekly on video calls.
• You'll send them footage of your strokes.
• When they need to see you compete, they'll analyze your match play.

They can physically demonstrate changes to you on video, work through the mental and strategic side of your game, and give you specific things to take to the court.

But here's the most important part:

You don't decide what you need from them.They do.

This isn't a package where you get X video reviews and Y swing analyses every month and try to figure out how to use them.

That's the exact problem we're trying to solve.

Your Elite coach looks at your game and determines what you need to work on, in what order, how you should practice it, when they need to see another stroke video, when they need match footage and when you're ready to move on.

Your job becomes much simpler:

Do the work. Send them what they ask for. Follow the plan.

Their job is to make sure the work you're doing is actually moving you forward.

Imagine knowing exactly what to work on every time you step on court.

This is one of the things we think players underestimate.

• How many hours have you spent practicing something because you thought it was the problem?
• How many YouTube videos have you watched trying to fix your serve?
• How many baskets of balls have you hit?
• How many lessons have you taken?

And how many times have you walked onto the court the next week and still lost to the exact same opponents?

That's what Elite is designed to eliminate.

Instead of constantly wondering:

• "Should I be working on my forehand?"
• "Do I need a better second serve?"
• "Why does everything feel great in practice and disappear in a match?"
• "Why do I keep losing to players I know I should beat?"

You have someone at the very top of this profession watching your game and saying:

"Here's what's holding you back. Here's what we're fixing first. Here's exactly what I want you to do next."

That's a completely different way to improve.

And we built Elite for one type of player

We don't care whether you're a 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5.

We care about this:

Are you serious about getting better?

Because Elite isn't for someone who plays tennis once every few weeks and doesn't really care whether they improve.

It's for the player who practices.

Takes lessons.

Watches instruction.

Plays matches.

Actually puts in the work...

And is frustrated because their improvement doesn't match their effort.

• Maybe you've been stuck at the same level for two years.
• Maybe there's a group of players at your club you know you should be beating, but somehow you keep losing to them.
• Maybe your game looks great during a lesson and falls apart the second somebody starts keeping score.
• Or maybe you're improving, but you're 45 years old and don't particularly feel like spending the next five years figuring this out through trial and error.

That's who we built Elite for.

Because we believe working with an exceptional coach can compress years of wandering around trying to figure this game out into months of focused improvement.

Here's how Elite works

The moment you join, we'll assign you your dedicated Elite coach.

You'll be able to message them immediately and schedule your onboarding call.

From there, your coach takes the lead.

They'll learn your game, understand where you're trying to go and determine what they need to see from you.

That will include video of your strokes, footage from actual matches, conversations about strategy or the mental side of your game, and live video sessions where they can explain and demonstrate exactly what they want you to change.

You'll have weekly video calls with your coach and direct messaging access through the PlayYourCourt platform.

But your actual development plan is personalized.

• One player might need intensive work rebuilding a serve.
• Another might have perfectly adequate strokes and need to completely rethink how they're constructing points.
• Another might discover that the thing they've spent the last year trying to fix isn't actually what's costing them matches at all.

There is no generic Elite curriculum because there is no generic tennis player.

Your coach decides what you need.

You follow the plan.

Then they adjust as needed based on your progress.

That's Elite coaching.

Now, let's talk about what this costs.

Private tennis instruction isn't cheap.

And if you're the type of player Elite is built for, there's a pretty good chance you're already spending a meaningful amount of money trying to improve.

But we want Elite to be something you actually commit to, because there is a big difference between identifying what's wrong and building the changes deeply enough that they hold up when you're serving at 4-4 in the third set.

So there are three ways to join, and each one is a single payment, not a subscription. One month is $699. Three months is $1,497, which works out to $499 a month. Six months is $2,394, which works out to $399 a month.

The longer you commit, the less it costs per month because, quite simply, those are the players we're most excited to work with.

They're giving their coach enough time to diagnose their game, make meaningful changes, see those changes under match pressure, adjust and keep building.

And if you're serious about making a major jump, six months is what we would suggest.

You have 30 days to decide if we're right.

We can write a letter telling you how good these coaches are.

But ultimately, we think you should experience the difference yourself.

One last thing before you decide.

We're currently only accepting 50 players into Elite.

And we want to be very clear that this isn't manufactured scarcity.

There are only a handful of coaches on the planet who meet our standard to deliver this experience. That is the real constraint. We are not going to lower the standard to add more spots.

And these are some of the busiest coaches in the sport. Between their academies, their top juniors and their own private students, their time is already spoken for.

So for the foreseeable future, 50 is the number.

Once those spots are taken, we're moving to a waitlist.

If you're perfectly happy with your tennis and how quickly you're improving, don't join.

But if you're putting in the hours and wondering why you're still stuck at the same level...

If you're tired of losing to the same players...

If you're tired of guessing what to practice...

Or if you simply want to find out how good you could actually become with an exceptional coach guiding the process...

Give us 30 days.

Let one of the best coaches in the world actually see your game.

Let them diagnose what's holding you back.

And let them show you what you've been missing.

You'll be surprised how quickly things can change when you finally start working with an Elite Coach.