HEAD COACH

Marcel Thorpe

Marcel has been a full-time coach with Ace Sports for the past five years spending most of his time working at Cockle Bay Tennis Club, Manukau Tennis Centre and running coaching programmes in over 50 schools throughout Auckland.

Marcel is a qualified Junior Development Coach through Tennis Australia and is registered through Tennis New Zealand. He considers developing junior players as his strength although he is equally comfortable coaching adults in either group or individual lessons and enjoys coaching players of all ages and abilities.

Marcel likes to ensure that everyone he coaches has a fun and enjoyable experience while they learn the technical, tactical, physical and mental skills required to get the most out of their tennis.

He still likes to play competitive tennis and last season captained the Cockle Bay 2nd Grade interclub team to promotion into 1st Grade and is looking forward to playing again this season.

"I am really excited about running the coaching programme at Maraetai Tennis Club and I look forward to meeting everyone".

Marcel will be supported by two assistant coaches. Click Here  to download the coaching programme for the first half of the season.

Marcel Thorpe
Head Coach
021 0230 5676