Head Coach
Marisol Duarte
Clay program lead. Builds points from the backhand corner and expects you to enjoy it.
18 yrs coaching
Ex-ITF
The staff
The people you will actually train with
Every coach on the floor holds a national certification and spends at least twenty hours a week actually on court. None of them are booking-desk staff with a whistle.
Head Coach
Performance
Theo Brandt
Movement and conditioning. Runs the sliding clinic that most members book twice.
S&C certified
Movement
Juniors
Amara Osei
Pathway director. Handles the tournament calendar and the conversations with parents about it.
Ages 8–17
40 placements
Match play
Nikolai Petrov
League and strategy. Watches more opponent footage than anyone on staff and shares all of it.
Tactics
League chair
Est. 1994
The Institute
Thirty-one years on the same eight courts
The club was built around a single conviction: clay teaches patience that hard courts never will. Longer rallies, worse footing, more decisions per point. Players who learn here arrive at hard-court tournaments already used to constructing points rather than ending them early.
We keep squads small — never more than four to a coach — and every hour is filmed. You leave with clips, not adjectives.
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Four players per coach, maximum Enough live-ball reps that nobody spends the hour standing in a queue.
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Every session filmed and clipped Two fixed cameras per court. Your clips land in the member app before you reach the car park.
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Courts groomed between blocks Lines swept and surface watered on the hour, so the ninth booking plays like the first.
How it runs
Your first four weeks
The sequence is the same for a twelve-year-old and a returning club player. It exists so nobody spends a term guessing what they are working on.
Assessment hour
A full hour on court with a head coach. Stroke video, movement screen, and an honest read on what is actually costing you points.
Written plan
Two technical priorities, one physical, one tactical. Short enough to remember, specific enough to measure.
Blocks on court
You settle into a weekly rhythm — squad, private, or both — with the plan pinned to every session sheet.
Review and reset
Every six weeks we re-film the same strokes and compare side by side. Priorities change only when the footage says so.
Members
What actually changed for them
Collected from members at their six-month review, lightly trimmed for length and printed with permission.
I came in with a forehand I'd been apologising for since school. Six weeks of footage later I could see exactly what my feet were doing wrong. Nobody had shown me that before.
Priya Raghavan
Member since 2023
My daughter joined the pathway at eleven. What sold us wasn't the results, it was that Amara told us plainly which tournaments were a waste of a weekend.
Daniel Okonjo
Parent, junior pathway
The Sunday ladder is the only reason I still play competitively at forty-six. Five divisions means you're never the worst player on the court for long.
Marcus Feld
Division 3, match play
The courts are brushed on the hour, every hour. After twenty years at three other clubs I did not know that was even possible.
Helena Voss
Member since 2019
Visit us
The gate is open from six in the morning
Drop in, walk the courts, and talk to whoever is on the floor. No appointment needed, and nobody will put you on a mailing list for looking around.
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The grounds 9785 Southwest Vancouver
Springfield, CA -
Front desk +1 (000) 575-898
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Email contact@example.com
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Court hours Mon–Fri 06:00–22:00
Sat & Sun 07:00–20:00
Book a trial hour
Send this and the front desk calls you back the same day with two or three slots that fit.