Liam Smith is a highly accomplished ATP coach with a remarkable history of coaching and developing elite players over the past two decades. Notable achievements include coaching top ATP Players Gael Monfils, Borna Coric, Matt Ebden, Radu Albot as well top WTA Players Coco Gauff and Sloane Stevens.
Serving as the former National Head Coach for Tennis Australia where he nurtured talents like Alex DeMinaur, over his career he has developed and guided multiple juniors to victory in many prestigious international tournaments including the junior grand slam events and reaching junior world number 1 rankings transitioning on to the top 100 on the professional tour.
Liam's expertise extends to directing national programs, developing national systems, directing tennis academies and coaching numerous top 100 professional players. With a strong educational foundation including qualifications as a Tennis Australia High Performance coach, one of the worlds few GPTCA Level A Star coaches, PTR Professional, RSPA Elite Professional, and an ATP Coach, Liam is a respected member of the coaching community. He was previously elected to serve a 2 year term on the ATP Coach Committee. In 2023 he was awarded the GPTCA (Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association) "Coach of the Year" award recognizing his elite level achievements and many years of dedication to players and coaches.
Throughout his career, Liam has worked with players of all levels and development stages, from 12 year olds competing internationally, National champions and Orange Bowl junior world champions in various age groups, on the ITF junior world tour through to top 10 players competing on the ATP tour and everything in between where he has built up a wide range of knowledge, experience and personal philosophies that he is now sharing.
Liam has served as a consultant for numerous tennis federations and associations for player development and coach education as well as for sport tech and sport nutrition start up's and continues to be an active speaker and presenter at global coach education conferences and courses for the GPTCA, PTR, ATP and global tennis federations.
