John Morris

Who is John Morris?

John Morris is a British born tennis coach, born in Harlow Essex in 1982, He is one of 4 children born to parents Annette and Trevor Morris. John has achieved world wide success on the international tennis scene with both British and foreign players.

John Morris started his coaching career at Sawbridgeworth Tennis Club before moving on to the Lawn Tennis Association high performance centre Batchwood in St Albans where he worked under Liz Jones, Sergio Gomez-Cuesta and Mandy Franks coaching some of Britain's best tennis players such as Claire Ricketts, George Coupland, Jennifer Rabot, Lewis Barnes, James Richardson and Ahmed El Menshawy. John travelled extensively on the ITF Junior circuit. From Batchwood John moved on to the Gosling Tennis Academy in Welwyn Garden City where he continued to travel the ITF junior circuit as well as the ATP and WTA tours.

In 2007 became a father for the first time as his wife Lisa gave birth to their first son Brayden, they have since had two other children, a daughter named Lara born in 2010 and a second son named Leon, born in 2012. Professionally John was runner up in the Lawn Tennis Association young coach of the year award 2007 as he coached George Coupland to the British number 1 junior ranking and a quarter final spot in the boys doubles at Wimbledon. As well as this, John captained several LTA teams at ITF Junior Circuit events. In 2008 John was selected by the Lawn Tennis Association to captain the victorious England men's and U18 boys' teams in the 4 nations championship, an event that was held at the National Tennis Centre. Off the back of this John was then selected by the LTA to captain the boys' team at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India.