Adult Tennis Intensive Courses in London

Separate 3-hour courses for each level, from complete beginner to advanced.

A focused 3-hour course on the core technique for your level, taken from our 6-week course programme. Expect plenty of hitting, individual feedback from your coach, and game play built in so you put it straight into practice.

Courses run all year round, including through the winter, at three London venues.

Where and when

  • Clapham (The Elms Academy, SW4 9ET): Saturdays 1–4pm, loan racquets available
  • Barnes (Barn Elms Sports Centre): Saturdays 1–4pm
  • Brockwell Park, Herne Hill: Sundays 1–4pm
  • Small groups: no more than 8 players per coach
  • £60 per course at all venues
  • Outdoor courts; see our poor weather policy

Beginner Intensive Course:
Learn all of the ‘Essential Tennis Techniques’ that will allow you to start improving your tennis quickly.
Forehands and Backhands – Full overview of technique is covered and reinforced through a variety of shadow, feeding and partner hitting drills.
Serve – Fundamental Technique is taught with players progressing through to their appropriate level of development.

If you’ve completed a couple of Beginners courses and feel ready to progress this is a good bridging course for you to move onto before hitting the full Improver level course. The goal of this course is to up-skill your rallying abilities and reinforce all of the forehand, backhand and serve technique that you learned during a beginners course.

More gameplay scenarios are also covered, to get you familiar with playing points and eventually matches.

As your confidence grows then our coaches also continue to provide specific individual feedback for each player so that they can progress forward at their own pace.

Improver / Intermediate Level Intensive Course:
Forehands and Backhands – We take you through more advanced swing shapes with an emphasis on developing topspin for more accuracy and consistency
Serve – Intermediate technique is covered using flat and slice serves with players progressed according to their appropriate level of development.

Gameplay, Scoring & Strategy – In the final 45 minutes players are given the chance to put everything together using different gameplay conditions.

Intermediate Advanced Level Intensive Course:

This course will aim to improve your groundstrokes by developing advanced swing shapes that allows you to hit with more spin, and become more consistent by covering more advanced footwork and balance skills.

We will introduce a more challenging serve motion to hit flat and spin serves more consistently. In the final 45 minutes we put these  skills together together using intermediate/advanced gameplay scenarios.

Schedule and Bookings

We’d love to have you join one of the below intensive courses, but please make sure you agree to our Intensive Course wet weather policy before you book. Also note that as per our T&Cs, no refunds or make-up sessions are offered under any circumstances for cancellations within 48 hours of the start time of a class.

Loan racquets are available at our Clapham courses; at Brockwell Park and Barnes, please bring your own. Other than that, just wear sports clothes and shoes and bring a drink bottle along too.

Unsure of your level? See our level descriptions here

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Event Venue Date
Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 2, Beginner To Improver (3 hours). Clapham | 10 October, 1:00-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • October 10, 2026 1:00 pm
Register
Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 2, Beginner To Improver (3 hours). Barnes | 10 October, 1:00pm-4:00pm Barnes / Putney - Barn Elms Sports Centre (Court 5, 6 & 7)
  • October 10, 2026 1:00 pm
Register
Adult Intensive Weekend (Sunday) - Level 3/4, Improver to Intermediate Course (3 hours). Brockwell Park | 11 October, 10:00am-1:00pm Brockwell Park (Court 1 and 2)
  • October 11, 2026 10:00 am
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Adult Intensive Course (Sunday) - Level 2, Beginner To Improver (3 hours). Brockwell Park | 11 October, 1:00-4:00pm Brockwell Park (Court 1 and 2)
  • October 11, 2026 1:00 pm
Register
Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 1, Beginner (3 hours). Clapham | 17 October, 1:00pm-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • October 17, 2026 1:00 pm
Register
Adult Intensive Weekend (Saturday) - Level 3/4, Improver to Intermediate Course (3 hours). Barnes | 17 October. 1:00pm-4:00pm Barnes / Putney - Barn Elms Sports Centre (Court 5, 6 & 7)
  • October 17, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Course (Sunday) - Level 2, Beginner To Improver (3 hours). Brockwell Park | 18 October, 1:00-4:00pm Brockwell Park (Court 1 and 2)
  • October 18, 2026 1:00 pm
Register
Adult Intensive Weekend (Saturday) - Level 3/4, Improver to Intermediate Course (3 hours). Clapham | 24 October, 1:00-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • October 24, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 1, Beginner (3 hours). Barnes | 24 October, 1:00pm-4:00pm Barnes / Putney - Barn Elms Sports Centre (Court 5, 6 & 7)
  • October 24, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Course (Sunday) - Level 1, Beginner (3 hours). Brockwell Park |25 October, 1:00-4:00pm Brockwell Park (Court 1 and 2)
  • October 25, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 1, Beginner (3 hours). Clapham | 31 October, 1:00pm-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • October 31, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 2, Beginner To Improver (3 hours). Clapham | 7 November, 1:00-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • November 7, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Weekend (Saturday) - Level 3/4, Improver to Intermediate Course (3 hours). Clapham | 14 November, 1:00-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • November 14, 2026 1:00 pm
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Adult Intensive Course (Saturday) - Level 2, Beginner To Improver (3 hours). Clapham | 21 November, 1:00-4:00pm Clapham - The Elms Academy (SW4 9ET)
  • November 21, 2026 1:00 pm
Register

Common questions

I’ve never played. Is that OK?
Yes. Level 1 is designed for complete beginners.

Do I need my own racquet?
Not in Clapham, where we have loan racquets. At Brockwell Park and Barnes, please bring your own.

What if it rains?
See our intensive course poor weather policy.

Can I play in winter?
Yes. Courses run outdoors all winter, so dress in layers.

Intensive or 6-week course?
An intensive covers the key technique for your level in one 3-hour session, about half of what a 6-week course covers. It’s a good way to get started or brush up, and to move on to a 6-week course.

6 Week Adult Courses

Sign up for 6 midweek evening lesson courses at our South West London venues

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