Ryan Bellamy

SWTC Director / Head Coach I have been involved in tennis my whole life after I began playing at the age of 3yrs. I went on to play tennis competitively beginning with local tournaments. Then into Australian Ranking tournaments which included Nationals, following on with ITF tournaments with my best Junior result being making it to the Semi Final’s of the Australian Open Junior’s in 2006. I was a NSWIS athlete for many years, I travelled around Europe on an Australian Tour to train and play tournaments. My best rankings were top 15 nationally and top 75 ITF world Junior Ranking. I was lucky enough to be coached by some of Australia’s best coaches including Wally Maseur, Peter Tramachi, Pat Rafter & Graeme Brimblecome and like to think I learnt a lot of what I put into my coaching today from those great coaches. I have experienced a lot of tennis through coaching also. I was the travelling ATP tour coach for Greg Jones in 2011, it was an unbelievable experience, we travelled Canada & the US playing months of tournaments including the US Open where Greg lost in the final round of the Qualifiying but managed his career high ATP ranking of 151. I was in a great company of coaches including Pat Rafter, Roger Rasheed, Jason Stoltenburg, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodford. That has helped make me the coach I am today. I was then a private & travelling coach for a top level Sydney Junior player for 2 years. We travelled around Australia playing Nationals and ITF tournaments. I took her overseas many times for ITF tournaments as well. Owning and operating my own tennis centre has always been a goal of mine, tennis is my passion and I have a true love for the sport. I enjoy coaching players of all ages and standards and helping them improve in all aspects of their game whether it be technically, physically or mentally. I would love to be able to find a young player to coach and guide to play through the Australian circuit, through to the ITF circuit and eventually onto the Professional circuit where I can travel with them, pass on all my knowledge and coach them to be the best player they can be. We already have a few potentials on their way.

Monique Lynch

SWTC Director / Head Coach I grew up in Temora in regional NSW. I started playing tennis at the age of 8 and my talent and potential was noticed almost immediately. At 10 years I was chosen to train at Tennis NSW State Squad with NSW’s best Juniors, and by the time I was 12 my parents were doing the 4.5hour drive twice a week. I started playing local Junior tournaments in the Riverina area, before playing AMT and moving onto National tournaments around Australia. When I was 15 I was chosen to be a NSWIS (NSW institute of Sport) athlete and I made the big step of relocating to Cronulla so I could be closer to the best coaches and facilities to further my tennis career. I was lucky enough to be coached by some of the best coaches in Australia including Wally Masur, Peter Tramacchi, Graeme Brimblecombe, Clint Newcomb, Nicole Arendt, Ryan Henry and Akos Pandurics. When I was 15 I travelled Europe for 3 months playing ITF & WTA tournaments. I had many great results including qualifying at Australian Challenger events and beating some of Australia’s best. After having a taste for playing on the WTA circuit I travelled Europe again for 2 months the following year having even better results than the year before. While playing in Europe I was in my best form. I acheived my career high ranking of WTA singles 1120, doubles 577, ITF 552 and I was number 6 in Australia. Unfortunately that was when I tore the cartilage in my left knee and had to come home for treatment. After having a few months off I came back onto the tour but her knee was never the same. After another year of painful tennis she seeked advice and a MRI showed a protrusion on her left knee cap, she was told it was something she would have to learn how to manage, also a career ending injury. Unfortunately my dream was over but tennis was still my passion so I went into coaching. I coached at Tennis NSW with the State Squads for 2 years and became Tennis Australia qualified with the Junior Development coaching accreditation. I then did a little bit of coaching in our local area with Ryan but our real goal was to own our own tennis centre, so when the opportunity to take over SWTC came our way we jumped at it. My goal is to run a tennis centre with a happy, friendly and competitive environment where we bring out the best in our players. I would love to produce and coach a professional tennis player.

Beau Petersson

SWTC Coach Hey guys my names Beau Petersson, I’ve been involved in tennis since I was 8 years old. I was always very active, I played a mixture of cricket, tennis and soccer growing up with tennis being the one that really grew on me and eventually stuck! I started coaching at Gilmour’s Tennis Centre in 2005 through till 2008. I became a Tennis Australia qualified and accredited Junior Development coach in 2008 and went on to coach at Homebush for Tennis NSW between 2008-2010. Throughout that time I worked as a State Squad coach, working with elite junior players, coaching members of the general public, general administrative duties and customer service. From 2009-2010 I worked with another Sydney based tennis centre which led to briefly working as a travelling coach within Australia and throughout the Pacific region with an Australian junior player. I started at Sylvania Waters Tennis Centre with Monique and Ryan in mid August 2013 and now moving on 5 years with them. I feel very grateful and honoured to contribute each day and look forward to being an integral part of their business, giving them my all and helping them to continue to grow their already successful tennis centre in which they have created. As a coach apart from the obvious technique that must be taught, I feel that you have to have a good personality and interaction with the student/client to be able to connect and get the best out of them. I'm very much about honing in on the technique side of things, whilst making it fun and challenging them and myself each time as it is important for growth as a player and as a person. I hope this has given you a little insight as to whom and what I am about. I look forward to coaching you or your child at SWTC!

Bianca Smith

SWTC Coach I was introduced to tennis age 9 through a school holiday tennis camp. From that moment on I loved the sport and knew I wanted to pursue it. I started receiving lessons from 11 and started playing local comps and tournaments. I competed in hundreds of tournaments, National Championships and won a State Championship, also playing in the Australian Open Juniors. I travelled all around playing ITF tournaments, being picked for the Australian Team. I was top 200 in the world for juniors. I then went on to play WTA ranked tournaments. I began coaching at GCA Tennis Club on the Gold Coast in 2005 and coached there for 4 years. I found a passion for coaching as I love working with people combined with the sport I love. I love watching people improve every week, meeting their goals and realising their potential. Tennis is a sport you can take with you through all walks of life, at any age.

Joshua Saoumi

SWTC Coach Josh is the youngest coach of the group. He has been coached at SWTC himself since Ryan and Monique took over and his love & passion for tennis has really grown. Josh is a Tennis NSW qualified coach with the Foundation Coaching course qualification which he completed late last year. He picked up a lot of great coaching tools form that course. He has also gained a lot of his coaching knowledge through watching Ryan coach, Josh is always asking Ryan questions on how things should be taught and gets tips from Ryan on ways to coach help coach and improve his players. Josh is actively trying to learn & improve not only his players but his own skills. Josh has a great nature and is the kind of person that would do anything for you. His personality really helps him click with all his players and they all really enjoy Josh’s tennis lessons.

Aleix Garcia

SWTC Coach Aleix is our resident international coach. Aleix is originally form Spain and has worked there for over 4 years coaching both tennis and padel. Aleix grew up in Spain playing soccer and is able to transfer his soccer skills into the players at SWTC. Aleix brings his own unique Spanish flavour to the court with every lesson and adds a great dynamic to our SWTC team and point of difference to our tennis coaching. Aleix’s main strengths on court would be the way he teaches great footwork related to tennis while hitting balls, he is able to connect these two very important aspects of tennis together seamlessly. His lessons are always very intense and he positively motivates all his clients! Aleix has great ideas & big goals for SWTC and we are excited to have him on board for the next 10 years and hopefully many more.