Greg Haywood

Greg is a PTR Professional, Coach 2 from Canada and USTA High Performance Graduate 2003.  He has coached tennis since 1983 and has extensive experience at all levels. He has also coached and worked as a Director of Tennis, an Assistant Director of a Tennis Academy in charge of the Tennis Department and as a Staff Professional.

Greg enjoys coaching adults and youth players and has enjoyed the players tennis journey with both. He has had the opportunity to coach several world class players including Sesil Karatancheva, who was number one in the world in Juniors and reached #35 WTA. He has experienced working with Eddie Herr champions, multiple Orange Bowl winners, a French Open junior champion and a WTA French Open quarter finalist.  Greg has worked with multiple players who were ranked in the top ten in the USA, and several in Canada. He has helped over 100 players reach their goal of playing college tennis. Most of these students on scholarships playing Division 1 tennis. The most recent student from Tyler, Texas, Ben Kiblinger is playing at Samford.

Greg enjoys working with senior players and has over 40 years of experience doing so. Everyone’s tennis is important, and Greg is here to help all players enjoy this wonderful game. He has added Pickleball to his coaching recently and very much enjoys group and individual clinics in this growing sport.

A wonderful little note is that Greg had the pleasure of coaching Tye Myers, the Director at Hideaway Beach, who was a top 10 player in the under 18’s in the USA. Tye was not only a great player who was very hard working but more importantly a great person and a favorite of Greg’s in his long coaching career.