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The Art of Tennis

The Art of Tennis

By: Rick Willsmore
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The Art of Tennis


Helping tennis coaches become better at their craft and more business savvy. Build a life through Tennis and make a positive impact to thousands of people.


Four parts of the Coachpreneur framework:

🎾 The Art of the Brand

🎾 The Art of the Coach

🎾 The Art of the Player

🎾 The Art of the System


Hosted by Coach Rick Willsmore — former NCAA college player, award-winning coach, and founder of Scarborough Tennis Academy on the northern beaches of Perth, Australia.

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Episodes
  • Playing Tennis: A Love Story?

    Playing Tennis: A Love Story?
    May 29 2026

    In this episode I cover my love/hate relationship with tennis. From an early love and obsession to a love/hate relationship during the teen and early 20s years.

    Eventually responsibility, maturity and impulse control improvements (pre frontal cortex in Male brain development) saw a turning point in the mid 20s.
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    21 mins
  • Am I Good Enough to Be a Tennis Coach?

    Am I Good Enough to Be a Tennis Coach?
    May 29 2026

    Here I cover some of my own insecurities on whether I was good enough to become a tennis coach. I cover some different levels of players that you typically coach and how there are lots of different spaces for different coaches.

    I had thought that to be a successful tennis coach will require closer to the ex pro status but this was an incorrect assumption.

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    19 mins
  • Dropping Out of University to Become a Fulltime Tennis Coach

    Dropping Out of University to Become a Fulltime Tennis Coach
    May 28 2026

    Here I cover my journey from Adelaide junior to US College Tennis before moving back to South Australia to attend university. After 6 months at the University of South Australia, I dropped out of university and moved to Darwin to become a tennis coach.

    This was the start of a lifetime of tennis coaching and tennis coaching business.
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    20 mins
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