Dan Smethurst is a British tennis coach and former player who most recently worked with top WTA player Johanna Konta.
A talented youngster, Dan was world junior number 29 before playing on the ITF and ATP Challenger Tour, reaching a career high ranking of 234 in 2014.
After quitting tennis he moved into coaching, working with Team Bath Tennis high performance players. Dan was Konta´s assistant coach and hitting partner for 2 years before her retirement in 2021, including her run to the French Open semi-final in 2019. He´s currently working with GB´s Aidan McHugh.
In this episode, Dan chats to Control the Controllables about:-
See full show notes here.
150th Episode Giveaway Winner!
In today´s episode we also announce the lucky winner of our 150th Episode Giveaway! Find out who has won a FREE training week at SotoTennis Academy!
We´ve been nominated for Best Tennis Podcast!
We´re very excited to have been shortlisted for ´Best Tennis Podcast of the Year´ by the Sports Podcast Awards 🎧🏆
We would massively appreciate it if you could spare just a couple of minutes to register here and vote for Control the Controllables!
It is also a great chance to discover some other brilliant sport podcasts! Thank you 🙏
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free