Jamie Kirkman
With 20 years of impassioned studying with lead coaches worldwide, Jamie Kirkman has a strong foundation and a robust understanding of the high-performing tennis community. As a professional Player Development Specialist, Jamie uses his unique innovative leader skillsets to enhance performance and encourage players to reach their full potential.
Jamie is a natural-born educator and began to embrace his heightened interest in this field during his teenage years, after obtaining reconstructive shoulder surgery. Since then, he went on to become a top leading expert in player development methods and is one of the most sought out coaches in tennis.
With his rigorous academic focus, Jamie delivers extensive knowledge to his students. His proven successful strategies consist of diversifying the trainings to keep them fresh, setting individual goals for each player, and never using rankings as a way to assess progress. By using his pivotal approaches, Jamie has successfully helped develop many top national and international junior players. Of those players, some have gone on to pursuing Junior Grand Slams, are competing in prestigious D1 schools, and others are now in the pro circuit, winning tournaments in popular tours, including ATP and WTA.
Jamie has an impeccable rooted skill for reaching every player on a deeper level to read and fully grasp who they are as a person. He firmly believes that being able to interpret and apprehend people is an art form that every coach should learn how to master. Doing so allows accurate insight into what approach to take for each player to optimize their abilities and maximize their successes.
From his technical development and on-court coaching background, Jamie has been able to share his experiences by writing for numerous well-known tennis magazines and coaching editorials around the globe. With his devotion and prospering training style, he is an incredible educator who knows exactly how to deliver and convey his methods that allow for each of his players to thrive.
Jamie is a natural-born educator and began to embrace his heightened interest in this field during his teenage years, after obtaining reconstructive shoulder surgery. Since then, he went on to become a top leading expert in player development methods and is one of the most sought out coaches in tennis.
With his rigorous academic focus, Jamie delivers extensive knowledge to his students. His proven successful strategies consist of diversifying the trainings to keep them fresh, setting individual goals for each player, and never using rankings as a way to assess progress. By using his pivotal approaches, Jamie has successfully helped develop many top national and international junior players. Of those players, some have gone on to pursuing Junior Grand Slams, are competing in prestigious D1 schools, and others are now in the pro circuit, winning tournaments in popular tours, including ATP and WTA.
Jamie has an impeccable rooted skill for reaching every player on a deeper level to read and fully grasp who they are as a person. He firmly believes that being able to interpret and apprehend people is an art form that every coach should learn how to master. Doing so allows accurate insight into what approach to take for each player to optimize their abilities and maximize their successes.
From his technical development and on-court coaching background, Jamie has been able to share his experiences by writing for numerous well-known tennis magazines and coaching editorials around the globe. With his devotion and prospering training style, he is an incredible educator who knows exactly how to deliver and convey his methods that allow for each of his players to thrive.
Jenny Kirkman
Jenny Kirkman began tennis in 1965, under the tutelage of famed coach Bill Gilmour at his private tennis center in Sydney, Australia. This is where Jenny went on to represent her region in team’s tennis. In her time, it was a privilege to train at Bill Gilmour's facility. But, if that wasn't lucky enough, Jenny also had the honor of training with Ken Rosewell, Lew Hoad and Rod Laver to name a few. Later, Jenny left tennis to pursue her work life. When her son Jamie started playing tennis, Jenny couldn't ignore her love for the game. Only after her son Jamie injured himself in his junior career did Jenny then set up JJKTennis. JJKTennis gave Jenny and her son the path to continue following their passion. Over the last 12 years, JJK Complete Tennis has gone from strength to strength under Jenny's guidance. Jenny oversees the business operations and manages the Ten and Under Program, where she has produced dozens of representative players.