A family friendly club

Invicta Tennis Club is a family club with a friendly atmosphere whilst training players to reach their true potential. Modern Tennis International (MTI) provide a tennis programme for beginners and experienced players without breaking the bank.

Club facilities

• 3 outdoor floodlit macadam courts
• Clubhouse with kitchen/diner and seating overlooking the courts
• Male and female changing rooms

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Tia Magrath aged eight , pictured here with Andy, was selected to represent Essex in the eight years and under girl’s team in March 2009. Tia has been coached Modern Tennis methods for a couple of years and only plays once a week - yet has seen an amazing improvement since she focused simply on playing Modern Tennis.

Your child can also experience this success or whatever their goals maybe

Charisma says "I just love getting out there and hitting the ball". Long may it continue we say!!!

Charisma Nuqui, also aged eight was also selected to represent Essex in the eight years and under girl’s team in March 2009.

Andy has been coaching Charisma Nuqui the Modern Tennis way, since Feb 2008 and and Charisma has enjoyed a massive improvement in her game since she started learning Modern Tennis techniques. She has a natural talent and loves playing tennis.

You can also watch her LIVE interview during Wimbledon 2008, on BBC Breakfast News where she was interviewed by Sports Presenter Chris Hollins on Number One Court at Wimbledon with Jo Durie - Former British Number One. To see the BBC News interview on YouTube.com follow this link

Charisma has also enjoyed some local press publicity! You can read her report on the Thurrock Gazette website

Modern Tennis trained youngster - Ashley Gray, won the fifteen and under category in the Thunderball tournament run at Deanes Tennis Academy, Essex.

Ashley who is fifteen, and trained by Modern Tennis Director Andrew Magrath, stormed to victory in the week long event.

The Leigh- on-Sea teenager even beat the boy who proved to be the eventual winner in the sixteen and under category!

In the summer of 2007, Andrew started coaching 4 year old Mika Stojanovic after her parents found Modern Tennisto be the best way forward for their daughter. They came to us at Modern Tennis International.

Within 3 months of Modern Tennis coaching, Mika was showing pure brilliance on the tennis court and was beating children twice her age. Mika, Andrew and John were interviewed by ITN on 21st December 2007 and BBC Breakfast - which was live 3 times during a cold morning in January 2008! These photos were taken of the ITN interview.

News articles also appeared on Setanta News and in the Mail on Sunday at Christmas 2007. With her father coming from Montenigro, Mika's Modern Tennis story made it all over the international papers and magazines across Europe!

View the ITN London Tonight footage on YouTube

Read the news article on the Mail on Sunday website

See the report in the Daily Mirror, check out their website

Adults have had their share of Modern Tennis success too ...

After just one session Terry Wilson aged in his early sixties, found that tennis a sport that he had loved to watch all his life is actually very easy to play. Terry wished he’d started earlier in his life but is now reaping the wonderful benefits of this healthy outdoor game.

Terry, who plays at Invicta said “I have found this system to be a real winner. I never dreamed I would have this much success and fun playing tennis so quickly. This methodology is must for all players”.

You can read many, many more testimonials on our dedicated page

Coach Andy serves up tennis the modern way

By Chris Phillips » Southend Echo 14th May 2009

THE coaching methods which helped establish some of the world’s top tennis stars have finally arrived in Essex.

The wonders of Modern Tennis helped Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten on his way to winning the French Open three times. And the same fast track method of learning the game is now available at the Invicta Club in Westcliff.

Coach Andy Magrath has introduced the programme at the Westcliff venue in an attempt to rejuvenate the club and to introduce new players to tennis. “It’s been truly humbling,” said Magrath, who has been overwhelmed by the feedback he has received. “Since starting in June last year we’ve seen more than 300 coaches in both the UK and abroad, and have had 100 per cent positive feedback.

It’s so important for beginners to experience success from early on.” “We’ve had great success coaching people of all ages and abilities. Modern Tennis just makes the game so simple.”

Magrath, who is from Hockley and his coaching partner John Littleford first heard about Modern Tennis while reading a national newspaper. That led to endless research on the internet and eventually they found the origin of the methodology. “They were first devised by a guy called Oscar Wegner,” explained Magrath. “Oscar urges players to play like the professionals do.”

“We managed to get in touch with him, and flew him over to the UK from Florida. Subsequently he trained us and asked us to ‘spread the gospel’ as it were, so now we can get beginner players hitting 20 shot rallies within a short time.

“Intermediate players will find their best game through improved tracking, timing and feel, while advanced players can improve focus on power output.

“It is an innovative, step by step approach that simplifies the game for all standards.” Together, Andy and John formed Modern Tennis International and run courses detailing the qualities of the Modern Tennis syllabus all over the country.

 They have since produced two groundbreaking DVDs to help players and coaches and their services have also recently been snapped up by the David Lloyd Club chain.

Such is the talent of some of the juniors they have taught that they have been interviewed on the BBC and ITV. But it is not just youngsters making the most of the new techniques as Invicta member Terry Wilson, who is in his late 60s, was on the verge of quitting the game before learning Modern Tennis.

“They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks — but you can teach them Modern Tennis,” he said. “It’s been brilliant for me. It’s so simple and logical”

A free taster session displaying these techniques will be held at the Invicta Tennis Club this Saturday (May 16) and also on other dates.

Anyone aged above five is welcome and should contact Andy to book their place on 07931 899998.

Visit www.playmoderntennis.com or call Andy for more details.

ECHO'S CHRIS TRIES HIS HAND AT TENNIS BACK in the day, when Take That were first together and curtains were the must-have haircut, I myself was a budding young tennis player.

I played every week at Rayleigh Lawn with Andy as my coach and was therefore intrigued to discover these latest techniques for myself.

Subsequently, my racket was dusted down and I found myself back on court, this time at the Invicta Tennis Club. To begin with though all I needed were my hands as the first exercise was designed to teach me how to time my shots correctly.

My feet moved naturally. I didn’t have to think about them once I found the ball with my hands. I could only make contact with the ball after counting to five following its bounce and then had to palm the ball back over a washing line-esque piece of equipment which made sure my future shots were not in danger of hitting the net.

This I did left-handed to get the feel of a beginner and I found that when I eventually got back to using a racket I was instantly able to top spin the ball on my weaker side. As part of the new plan, I also had to hold the racket at the very top of the grip while also playing in the service boxes to again help with my timing and technique.

Eventually I progressed to the back of the court. Once there, I instantly noticed a difference to my game and was able to play a part in some long and often successful rallies against Andy. These techniques to me seemed quite straightforward and enjoyable too. It is just a shame that they weren’t introduced a bit earlier in these parts because then maybe I could be dreaming of wowing Wimbledon — and not just writing about it!

You can see this report online at the Southend Echo website.