Russ Tennis

Welcome

No matter your age or experience, my high performance coaching is enthusiastically committed to enhance your game and take it to the next level. I teach balance essentials, correct grip choices, fundamental swing mechanics and tennis strategy. I observe your stroke deficiencies and suggest corrective techniques and drills to maximize your development. Sensitive attention is given to beginners with lessons geared to get them up to speed quickly and painlessly.

After a stint on the Indiana State University tennis team with former USPTA president Joseph Thompson, I started teaching during the "Tennis Boom" years with Hank and Pat Fenton in Central Park and during the nineties with Burt Kahn at Tower Tennis. As a USPTA member for twenty-eight years, I attend USTA Tennis Teachers Conferences to keep up to date. I am currently the Tennis Professional at Fort Washington Park in Manhattan. Since 1980 I've taught tennis to thousands of New Yorkers in Central Park, Riverside Park, Inwood Hill Park and in many private venues throughout New York City. I am an experienced teacher of groups and students from Buckley, Chapin, Dalton, Dwight, Horace Mann, Marymount, Ramaz, Sacred Heart, and Spence. Off the court, I am an avid painter and opera buff.