Originally from Australia, Grant Doyle has played and coached at the highest level of the game. After 10+ years on the ATP circuit as a top-ranked player, Grant discovered his passion to help aspiring athletes reach their best. Coaching highlights include discovering Sam Querrey. when he was 15 years old and coaching him to Top 30 status on the ATP Tour. Another highlight was helping Ryan Harrison reach top 40 in the world with both players playing Davis Cup for the USA. During this time Sam won his first ATP Tour event, reached numerous semi/quarter-finals, and had success on all court surfaces despite his limited experience.

In addition, Coach Doyle has successfully worked with many junior players, helping them attain full scholarships to top universities including Stanford, USC, Berkley, Pepperdine, and Virginia. As a player himself, Grant was the world’s #1 ranked junior capturing the Australian Open Singles and Doubles titles along with the Italian Open, French Open, and other such titles. Coach Doyle has the distinction of becoming one of the few Australian players that won every national age group from under 12’s through to under 18’s.

Throughout his career Grant has faced many of the world’s top athletes including Agassi, Federer, Sampras, just to name a few. Grant looks forward to helping striving players become champions in life and tennis through his dedication and hands-on approach to coaching! Grant is an avid golfer and is currently finishing his master’s degree in Business Education.

A highly skilled tennis athlete with excellent leadership skills and a strong understanding of the psychology of the game and players, Arturo has been teaching and coaching at Rancho Valencia for 15 years. Bilingual in English and Spanish, his effective and energizing communication technique nurtures young students by teaching self-control, courtesy, skills, passion, motivation, and good sportsmanship.

Originally from Guadalara, Jalisco, Mexico, Arturo earned his BS in Dental Science at the University of Guadalajara. He started playing tennis as a junior and honed his teaching and coaching skills providing motivational and aspirational tennis instruction to underprivileged children from 2000 to 2005 in Guadalajara before immigrating to San Diego in 2005 and becoming a US citizen in 2008.

Arturo currently teaches and coaches players competing and winning at both the State, National, and International circuits. He assists in the planning, training and coordination of Rancho Valencia’s adult and junior players with great attention given to their enjoyment in addition to their personal skills development. He enjoys teaching the basics to fine-tuning highly-skilled adult and junior players alike. Sponsored by Wilson and Head since 1982, Arturo is a past doubles champion and is a doubles clay specialist, optimizing players’ skills on Rancho Valencia’s red European clay courts.

Head Tennis Pro Eduardo Sanchez was born and raised in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, Eduardo immigrated and became a US citizen when he was just 18 years old. Eduardo played tennis in high school (#1 Singles and #1 Doubles) and two years in San Diego Junior College (#3 Singles and #1 Doubles). He was Head Tennis Pro at Windemere in La Jolla, California from 1984 to 1985 and the Head Tennis Pro at Rancho La Puerta Resort and Spa in Tecate, Mexico from 1984 to 1989. Eduardo joined us at Rancho Valencia as Head Tennis Pro in June 1989 when the Resort first opened and has continued in that role to the present. He is USPTA certified and has been active in the San Diego Division of the USPTA (treasurer from 1993-1995, the Tennis Pro of the Year in 1995, Vice President in 1996 and Chairman of the Divisions’ Multicultural Committee). Eduardo is the current President and Founder of the SES Tennis Center, a non-profit organization that provides the children of Tecate, Mexico access to tennis lessons, equipment and tournament transportation. Two juniors that train at the SES Tennis Center are now competing nationally and internationally. He coordinates and holds Pro-Am tennis tournaments as fundraisers on an annual basis.

Eduardo relates well to all ages and levels, making the process of learning tennis fun and exciting. He enjoys teaching beginner and intermediate players the proper stroke techniques so that they improve quickly, in addition to the challenge of teaching advanced players singles and doubles strategies as they advance their games.

Eduardo’s patience creates a calm and focused learning environment- he assists players with visualization techniques at all stages of player development, in addition to proper stroke technique and double tactics. A taskmaster for technique, his teaching philosophy is “We used to think that practice makes perfect, but in reality, perfect practice makes perfect.”

Outside of tennis, Eduardo loves to travel and spend quality time with his family, both in the US and internationally (he is currently learning Italian!) When he’s not with his family or on the tennis courts, his other sports include a love for baseball and basketball.