A player mid-rally with his coach watching from the baseline
The full-time academy

Train – Study – Live Tennis.

A full-time tennis programme and British education, built into one complete day from age eight.

From age 8 2 coaches per player School on site
The decision you are actually making

It is a move, not a booking.

Sending a child full time means uprooting them, and it is the hardest call a tennis family makes. We are not going to pretend otherwise, and we will tell you if we think your child is not ready, or that this is not the right place for them.

What we can promise is that nobody here gets lost. We are deliberately small. Every player has a head coach who owns their plan and a personal coach who is on court with them daily, and both of them know exactly where that child is going.

Nobody signs up blind Come for a camp or a training block first. If you then join full time, the full value of that week comes off your first payment. Almost everybody who trains here full time started exactly that way.

Two programmes

Eight to twelve, and twelve and over.

They are not the same programme with different hours. A child under twelve is building a technical base, and the day is shaped around that. From twelve the player is building a game, and a calendar to take it to.

A young player stretching wide for a forehand on the hard courts PRE-ACADEMY · AGES 8 TO 12

Build the base

The years that decide whether a player has a technical foundation worth building on. Individual work in the mornings while they are fresh, group work in the afternoons.

  • 15 to 20 hours of tennis and movement a week
  • Physical: two short daily sessions on agility, balance and coordination
  • Physiotherapy: a check and a sports massage every week
  • School: Key Stage 2 on site at Synergy
€825A MONTH · BEFORE IGIC
A player driving a two-handed backhand on the hard courts at T3 FULL-TIME ACADEMY · AGE 12 AND OVER

Build the game

The full performance programme. Twenty-six and a half hours a week on court and in the gym, built around one plan written for that player and reviewed every block.

  • 17.5 hours of tennis a week
  • 9 hours of physical work, including a beach session on Saturday
  • Physiotherapy: weekly screening, treatment and massage
  • School: iGCSE and A Level on site, or CIDEAD
€1,400A MONTH · BEFORE IGIC
A full-time week, in numbers

Twenty-six and a half hours, and none of them wasted.

17.5hours of tennis every week
9hours of physical work, including Saturday on the sand
2coaches who own that player, by name
365days a year outdoors, on clay and on hard

Every player gets a physiotherapy session every week. Not the injured ones. Everyone.

A day here

Two blocks, with the school in the middle.

The best court hours are early and late, so lessons take the heat of the day. It is the only way to fit twenty-six hours of training and a full curriculum into the same week without one of them suffering.

AGE 12 AND OVER

Monday to Friday

Tennis at both ends of the day, school and rest through the middle of it.

  • 08:00Warm-up and physicalMovement, strength and prehab before the heat comes up
  • 09:30Individual tennisThe technical block, coached to that player's own plan by their personal coach
  • 11:30Lunch, rest and schoolThe Synergy block, and a proper rest. Nobody trains well at four on no sleep
  • 16:30Group tennisGame situations, patterns and point play with the squad
  • 18:00PrehabInjury prevention to close the day
  • SATBeach and match playFitness on the sand, a swim, and ranked UTR matches in the morning
PRE-ACADEMY, UNDER 12

The other way round

A young player is sharpest first thing, so that is when the individual work happens.

  • AMIndividual tennisOne to one, while concentration is at its best
  • AMPhysical, short and oftenAgility, balance and coordination, twice a day rather than one long block
  • MIDKey Stage 2 at SynergyOn site, five steps from the court
  • PMGroup tennisPlaying with the others, which is where children actually learn to compete
  • WKPhysiotherapyA check and a sports massage every week, same as the older players
How a player is actually coached

The same two names, every week of the year.

The thing that goes wrong at bigger academies is that nobody owns the player. Everyone coaches them, and nobody is answerable for where they end up.

THE MENTOR

Owns the plan

A head coach who writes the annual plan, sets the tournament calendar, reviews every block, and is the one you ask when you want to know how it is going.

One name, all year
THE PERSONAL COACH

On court, every day

The coach who delivers it session by session, feeds the balls, watches the matches, and knows within two minutes of a player walking on whether something is wrong.

On court daily
AND YOU

In the group, if you want

Every player gets a WhatsApp group with their parents, and you can put their coach back home in it too. Plans, footage and assessments go there, not into a termly report nobody reads.

However far away you are
Competing

Training is not the point. Competing is.

Planning, a coach travelling with the player, guidance on site and the analysis afterwards are all inside the monthly fee. Only the travel and the entries are split between the players who go.

INTERNATIONAL

ITF, Tennis Europe and TenPro

We travel as a group wherever we can, which is what keeps it affordable for a family rather than a sponsor.

NATIONAL AND ISLAND

Rafa Nadal Tour, TTK Warrior, Mony Tour

Plus the island and team events on our own doorstep, which is where younger players get their first competitive miles.

EVERY SATURDAY

Ranked UTR matches at home

We are an official UTR academy, so players get rated matches without getting on a plane. Filmed on request.

A COACH GOES WITH THEM

Somebody is in the chair

Players are not dropped at a tournament to work it out alone. The match is reviewed before the next one starts.

Schengen, and the calendar For families outside the EU the ninety-day rule shapes everything. We plan the tournament year around it rather than discovering it in March, and we will walk you through what it means for your child before you commit to anything.

Who else is in a player's week

A coach is not the whole team.

PHYSIOTHERAPY

Weekly, for everyone

Florencia screens every player every week. Injuries get caught in the week they start, rather than the month they stop somebody playing.

STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING

Built on testing data

Ángel is a sport scientist, not a gym instructor. The programme comes off the testing numbers and is rebuilt as those numbers move.

MATCH ANALYSIS

Patterns named, not felt

Matches are filmed and broken down, so a pattern that loses points gets named and worked on rather than vaguely sensed.

And it is all written down Plans, goals and session feedback live in one place that both you and the player can see, rather than in a coach's head.

The Synergy learning centre at Chayofa
School, five steps away

The school is five steps from the court.

Synergy teaches the full British curriculum through to A Level on this site, in small groups, with the whole course portable for tournament weeks. It is the objection that stops most families, and it is the reason the school exists.

The American scholarship route is planned from Year 9, not scrambled together in the final year.

Somewhere to live

The player house, or a host family.

Two supervised houses in Chayofa, two minutes from the clay, with staff living in, two to a room and over-twelves only. Or a room with the family of another academy player, who cook for them and drive them to training.

Families who move here with their child do neither, and plenty do exactly that. Housing is an option, never a condition of the programme.

Fees

Tennis, school and housing are billed separately.

So you only pay for what you use. Every figure is before IGIC, paid at the start of each month, on the basis of ten months or more in the year.

The monthly fees

Three separate bills, not one bundled number.

  • Pre-AcademyAges 8 to 12, tennis and physical€825A MONTH
  • Full-time AcademyAge 12 and over, tennis and physical€1,400A MONTH
  • Synergy school€480 ages 6 to 14, €520 ages 15 to 18€480+A MONTH
  • Player house or host familyAll inclusive, either option€1,300A MONTH

What is inside the monthly fee

No line appears on a later invoice.

  • All tennis and all physical sessions
  • A weekly physiotherapy screening and massage
  • The annual plan and every block review
  • Tournament planning and the calendar
  • A coach travelling to tournaments, and the analysis afterwards
  • Match filming and video analysis
  • Use of every facility at both sites
  • Saturday UTR match play

Charged separately: registration €75, a €600 deposit, and the travel and entry fees for tournaments, split between the players who go.

Every price on this website is before IGIC, the Canary Islands sales tax, which is 7% and 3% on some sport services against 21% on the Spanish mainland. The full price list.

The full-time academy

Start with a week, not a year.

Tell us the age, the level and when you could come. We will tell you whether your child is ready for this, and if they are not yet, what would need to change.

Arrange it directly with academy director Kris Gray

Full-time places are not booked from a form. Contact the office on the number or the email below and ask for Kris Gray's direct contact, and he will take you through it himself.