Meet The Team

Founded in 1995 LifeTime is regarded as one of Australia's leading coaching teams with a wealth of knowledge, experience & passion.

Directed by Gary Stickler & Marc Svenson our primary focus is giving players the tennis, personal skills, values & habits required to be successful, not just tennis but in life.

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Gary Stickler
FOUNDER
(Lifetime International)
Former Head Coach for Tennis QLD, Former coach of World Number 1 Pat Rafter, John Millman, Jason Kubler and Naiktha Bains. Along with many other top Australian Junior and Open players. Gary has worked with hundreds, if not thousands of tournament level juniors and open players over the past 40 years. He is a wealth of knowledge and currently is owner of LifeTime International.
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Marc Svenson
DIRECTOR
(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
Former top QLD Junior and Open player Marc has worked with LifeTime Tennis for over 15 years. One of LifeTime most experienced coaches. For the past 3 years Marc has focused on the management and development of LifeTime Tennis. Currently a Director and owner of LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West. He has a passion for providing environments for our coaching team to provide world class tennis programs.
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Graeme Brimblecombe
DIRECTOR
(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
Graeme has a wealth of tennis coaching experience having held positions including Head Men's AIS Coach, Tennis QLD Head Coach and Tennis QLD NDS Head Coach. Graeme has worked with many of QLD's and Australia's best juniors over the past 30 years and has a very strong track record of developing juniors to international and professional level players.
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Matt Limpus
HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH

(Lifetime International)
Former top junior Matt Limpus is regarded as one of QLD's best young coaches with over 15 years experience working with National to International level players. 

Matt has won Tennis QLD coach of the year awards and has been lead presenter at the Tennis Australian Coach courses for the past 3 years.

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Michael McGlinchey
PERFORMANCE LEAD COACH

(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
Michael has recently joined LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West as an Academy Lead Coach. Having run his own Academy in New Zealand with over 100 top juniors he is experienced in player development and has an extensive playing background. 

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David Glinster
HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH

(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
David has over 40 years experience working with players of all ages and standards. Having worked with some of QLD's best juniors. David has worked with a number of Brisbane's prominent schools and was Head Coach of IGS for many years.

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Darren Verrall
HEAD DEVELOPMENT COACH

(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
Darren has over 30 years experience developing players from beginner through to junior tournaments. Currently, Darren heads up the Gregory Terrace Teams coaching and is LifeTime's lead coach at Gregory Terrace along with Graeme Brimblecombe.

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Jack Moore
HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH
(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)

Jack grew up on the Sunshine Coast and began playing tennis at age 8. Since falling in love with the competition and travel opportunities tennis provides, Jack still has ambitions to play overseas. Having coached for UQ for the last five years, Jack has experience working with players all the way from red ball to high performance squads. Jack has completed the Tennis Australia Community Coaching Course and earned a dual degree in sports science and business from QUT.

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John James
TERRACE HEAD COACH
(Lifetime International)
John has a massive range of tennis experiences from being a top national junior, to playing at the highest level in US college tennis to playing on tour. John has worked with many of the best Open players around QLD over the past 15 years. Currently coach of St Rita's and performance coach for LifeTime International.
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Cody Fullarton
IGNITE PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE

Cody is an ESSA Accredited Exercise Physiologist, a Level 2 ASCA Coach and he also has his Masters in Sports Coaching through the University of Queensland.

He previously ran his own Exercise Physiology Business for 12 years from our Spring Hill clinic and has now expanding the business to include a second location at Mt Gravatt.

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Baxter Bloore
TENNIS COACH
(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)

Baxter was a pupil of LifeTime Tennis for over 5 years. Having reached a high tournament level as a player, Baxter is now helping LifeTime’s senior performance coaches to develop some of QLD’s best juniors. Baxter loves tennis and provides players with a positive and professional experience.

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Ayako Svenson
OFFICE MANAGER

(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
Ayako is our office manager. Former top junior player who moved to Australia to pursue her tennis career at the age of 16. A key member of the LifeTime staff and is responsible for much of the behind the scenes work that happens at LifeTime!

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Jason Antoniolli
CENTRE MANAGER

(LifeTime Tennis Brisbane West)
Jason is our professional stringer and pro shop manager. Jason also has a level 1 coaching qualification and has an international playing experience. One of QLD's top juniors Jason loves tennis and is a key member of our team.

 

About LifeTime Tennis

LifeTime Tennis is one of Australia’s leading tennis companies. Our coaches are regarded as the best in country and our programs have changed the way that the sport of tennis is played. We work closely with Tennis Australia, its state bodies and local clubs and coaches to ensure that tennis remains one of Australia’s favourite sports.

These days, people expect faster results in shorter time frames. They also want to play sports that are entertaining and interactive. And they prefer activities that suit the demands of their lifestyle.

That means that tennis should be fun, easy to learn, and require minimal skill to play.

In 1997, we launched a new range of world class tennis programs in Queensland to help people get started or improve their game, and to assist players who were serious about making tennis a career.

LifeTime Tennis programs have been developed by Gary Stickler, the former resident coach of Pat Rafter and Australian Tennis Coach of the Year, and our team of LifeTime Coaches.

Our programs are based on the concept that people come to play tennis - not learn about it. Traditionally, people have learned to play tennis through formal instruction that involved a series of lessons before a person achieved a skill level sufficient to enjoy playing socially or in competitions. We decided that LifeTime Tennis programs would use playing formats that allowed people to begin playing tennis at any level. We also decided that these playing formats would change as the skill level of the person increases. And most importantly, we structured our programs so that players were actively involved throughout the entire session.

As you progress through our tennis programs, we increase your level of self-learning so that you begin to become responsible for your own development as a player. This is best demonstrated in our ProTennis high performance development program that gives players responsibility and ownership for their own development and success.

The ProTennis program is an individualised program of intense training, stroke development, tactical and psychological awareness for players serious about their tennis. It teaches players self-evaluation skills, which allow them to grow from every tennis experience, not just the one provided by the coach.

It is this philosophy that has been the key to the success of some of Australia's leading players, most notably Pat Rafter and John Millman.

Our coaching team has coached in Academy of Sport Programs, Australia Institute of Sport programs and headed up National High Performance Academy programs. A number of LifeTime’s coaches also have international playing and coaching experience.

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Tennis Queensland Coach of the Year

🏆 1997 🏆 1998 🏆 1999 🏆 2001 🏆 2002 🏆 2005 🏆 2008 🏆 2012🏆 2014 🏆 2015 🏆 2016 🏆 2017 

Tennis Australia Coach of the Year

🏆 2006 🏆 2014

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