Coaching Team

Top Tennis is a tennis coaching and services business run and operated by head coaches and one club coach being Andrew Peake, Jesse Laino and Anthony Raso. Top Tennis has been in operation both individually and jointly throughout the Northern and outer northern suburbs of Melbourne for over 20 years. Our coaches are insured, registered and qualified with Tennis Australia and ATPCA, plus a current working with children check. 

 Jesse Laino - Junior Development (Currently completing his Club Professional) - Tennis Australia Qualified

Jesse has vast experience in the game as a coach of 18 year's experience plus current past added competitive years as an A Grade and tournament player.

  Jesse has a keen interest in club development both on and off the court working together with local schools and councils to implement diversity programs, girls can tennis and school tennis classes. 

  He is also a loyal club committee volunteer who has dedicated hundreds of hours of his own time to run tournaments, operate club events, attend committee meetings and the complete organisation of junior teams at various clubs.

Andrew Peake - Club Professional Coach - Tennis Australia Qualified

  Andrew has over 25 years coaching experience with added tournament playing experience and is also currently the club president of the Mt. Carmel TC, Sunbury.

  He is passionate about player development and works with high performance players that are looking to take their game to the next level and transition towards tournaments.

    Off the court Andrew enjoys special projects that include facility development and capital works that enhance the club look externally. Garden upgrades, club room extensions, court resurfacing and club relocation projects are some major achievements.

Anthony Raso - ATPCA Level 1 - ATPCA Qualified

     Anthony is a long term club tennis coach with Top Tennis since 2012, more than 10 years of wonderful service including having lessons himself under Jesse and Andrew as a junior player.

He loves playing competition tennis, he works and coaches very well with the junior kids and is a fantastic junior coordinator. Anthony has been invovled with Moomba Park TC since 2004 initially as a junior player and now a coach, committee person, team captain and club player and now a certified re-stringer.

  Anthony also runs the Mary MacKillop Primary School coaching program and is experienced at school tennis classes conducting 1000's of lessons in a school environment over his journey.