Play Well Tennis is a tennis coaching business founded in Brisbane in 2024 by Head Coach Mark Pendlebury. Mark has been a tennis coach since 2022, coaching over 1,000 hours of group and private lessons to children and adults.
Qualifications
Mark's qualifications are:
- Junior Development Coach, Tennis Australia 2024
- Certificate 3 in Sport Coaching, Venture Education 2024
- Advanced Professional Tennis Coach, Australian Tennis Professional Coaches Association 2023
- Graduate Tennis Pro, Australian Tennis Professional Coaches Association 2022
- Provide First Aid, A OK 2023
- Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation, LINKCPR 2024
Our passion
Play Well Tennis is passionate about helping people enjoy the game of tennis through sharing our knowledge and supporting their development in the sport.
Our mission
Our mission is to support community wellbeing through tennis. We aim to achieve this by:
- Creating fun and engaging environments for children to explore, learn and develop key physical, social, cognitive and emotional skills through play. The end goal - these skills benefit the individual and thier community through to adulthood.
- Being inclusive and offering tennis coaching and support to all members of the community, regardless of ability, age or identity.
- Providing opportunities for the community to live a physically active and socially connected life.
- Providing athletes with high quality tennis coaching to support their aspirations in tennis performance.
Our values
Integrity - Do what you say and say what you do.
Humility - Understand your value as a person is just as great but no greater than anyone else, that you always have more to learn, and that learning can come from anyone or any situation if you are open to it.
Play Well Tennis looks to foster these values in its students.
From Head Coach Mark
Junior tennis coaching is important to me because as a child sport played a significant role in my upbringing. Among other things, it gave me a sense of competence, identity and achievement.
The best coaches I had cared about me, believed in me, and helped me believe in myself.
It's these positive experiences and the lasting impacts from participating in sport that motivate me to guide young people through their early life using tennis as a vehicle. It is also what drives me to become the best coach I can.