Sale Tennis Club is delighted to have appointed a new senior coach, Jason Yap, after current coach, Anthony Zafiris, resigned to move to Queensland. 

Experienced coach Yap had his first visit to the Club last week after an exhaustive recruiting process that saw applications received from New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria.

After finishing secondary school studies in Melbourne while playing in the Australasian ITF Junior level, Jason was successful in receiving a tennis scholarship to the University of Utah where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Science with a Minor in Speech Communication.

After graduating Jason spent time on the professional tennis circuit throughout the USA and Europe before returning to Australia to take up a coaching position at Boroondara in 2008.

In addition to being a Tennis Australia accredited coach Jason is also a qualified Personal Trainer and Group Instructor. 

Jason’s most recent role was Senior Fitness and Development Coach at Boroondara Tennis Centre where he was responsible for nurturing beginners as well as implementing high performance tennis programs specifically designed to transform young up-and-coming juniors into future stars on and off the court. 

Jason is keen to build on the solid base that current coach Anthony has established and add more lessons and squads, Cardio Tennis, Fast 4 and other programs for schools, juniors and adults. 

Jason will host a “COVID safe” meet and greet at Sale Tennis Club on Saturday September 25th with free coaching tips for all those who attend.  With numbers restricted interested players should text 0403 082 388 to confirm a spot.

Jason and his wife Mika, and their 2 pre-school children, will move to Sale to begin their new life here as soon as they find suitable accommodation. 

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New coach, Jason Yap (left) with a Sale junior squad along with Anthony Zafiris (right)