About Us

Hi and welcome to Cover Coach!

I’m Toby – the founder of Cover Coach.  I started playing tennis when I was nearly 3 and my journey as a Coach began when I turned 16. I’ve been a head coach since 2011 and have coached all over the UK - Leicestershire, London, Merseyside and Worcestershire and also abroad in Egypt and the United States.

I get paid to do what I love, which is amazing. Coaching tennis keeps me active every day and I have complete independence to manage my own hours and business autonomy to build my client portfolio.

Tennis has brought me so much. I feel I make a real impact on people’s lives and, through coaching tennis, I met my fiancé and had my son, so it will always be very special to me.

Over the years I have successfully built my successful business in London but running a business can be tough. There are times when I need to travel to another city for a course and have wished I could use my free evenings to pick up extra work, while I’m away from my family.

But when I’m running my tennis programme at home, my hours are really long. I wanted to strike a better work-life balance now that I am a dad, and I needed more time away from being on court to develop, grow and market my tennis programme.

We all know that evenings and weekends are busy times for coaching tennis because we fit around our clients’ work commitments. Sometimes we also need a break from these unsociable hours but taking time off work is complicated when you’re self-employed especially when you are responsible for running tennis programmes that go on for a whole term or when you don’t want to interrupt your clients’ private weekly practice.

Taking leave, including holiday, sickness, parental and maternity/paternity means I have to spend a long time reaching out to all the Coaches I know to find reliable, high-quality cover.

Discussing this with other coaches and realising we were all facing similar challenges, I decuded to find a solution that was easy for fellow tennis coaches in the UK.

Out of these conversations, came Cover Coach - a website that will allow us to post and apply for jobs, and help each other out, whether it’s short term or long term.

Whether you need help for one evening, one day, a week, a month, or several months at a time, this is the platform for you.

Equally, if you’re looking for work and are keen to try another club or city before you commit to a move, you can find a cover role here.

There are over 6000 tennis coaches in Britain and over 5000 tennis clubs in this country,  Whether you’re a Head Coach too or just starting out on your tennis coaching career, have a browse through what’s available or sign up to post an advert for work or a vacancy.

By sharing opportunities through this website, we will have a diverse range of roles catering to difference expertise levels and specialisations, in a range of environments, across the nation.

In this busy and exciting world that is nurturing tennis talent, we all deserve to build up our working days in a way that works for each one of us and to enjoy our leave confident in the knowledge that our clients are in the safe hands of dependable cover. To make this a reality for us all I need you to join me. So, please log on and find your match.