Highlights of David's Coaching for Competition Play

Many of David's pupils have become Junior or Senior County players and some have played at Regional or International levels. At the highest levels a few have played at Wimbledon or represented their counties in Davis or Federation Cups. Over the years David's Pupils have included:

• John Feaver (Davis Cup Player for Great Britain)
• Andrew Castle(Davis Cup Player for Great Britain)
• Andrew Jarratt (Davis Cup Player for Great Britain, Boys Wimbledon Champion)
• Jonathon Smith (Davis Cup Player for Great Britain)
• Kelvin Ng (Davis Cup Player for Hong Kong)
• Marjorie Blackwood (Federation Cup Player for Canada)

Career History

His full time professional coaching career started at Millfield School and for many years was their head coach. He became a tutor at the LTA's Training of Coaches Scheme and also a County, Regional and National Coach aka the Development Officer. David has managed Junior and Senior international teams and organised and tutored inaugural Coach's Certificates for Zambia and Malta Sports Councils. He then established his 29 February, 2008 the umbrella of David Kemp Tennis with the logo DKT. He developed a form of teaching which he considers is the best method of learning tennis; from the back, middle, and front of the court. The catalyst for this method of teaching is a game he created called Dakete.