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PETER SMITH Dip T Sec Adv AST1
- Tennis Director, Head Coach Next Generation Memorial Drive Adelaide South Australia
- 30 years experience as a Secondary School teacher teaching principally Creative and Artistic Black and White Photography
- 30 years experience as a Tennis Professional (Coaching)
- Level 3 (Master) Coach Tennis Coaches Australia (TCA)
- Former Vice President TCA
- President TCA SA (South Australia)
- 30 years administrative involvement with Tennis SA
* Vice President
* Chairman Junior Development Board
* Director of Coaching
* Chairman Disabilities Committee
- A number of years as No 1 State League Pennant player in SA
- A number of SA Top 10 rankings
- State Director of Coaching in SA for a period that produced:
John Fitzgerald, Brod Dyke, Peter Carter, Darren Cahill, Mark Woodforde, Anthony Lane, Roger Rasheed, Louise Stacey – all successful world ranked players.
Responsible for training programmes for all of the above players in addition to coaching a number of them privately ie John Fitzgerald, Peter Carter, Roger Rasheed and Louise Stacey. John is currently the Australian Davis Cup Captain, Peter became the development coach of Roger Federer and the Swiss Davis Cup Captain and Roger is currently the coach of Lleyton Hewitt
- Coach of Lleyton Hewitt from age 6 years to 17 years – touring coach for first part of 2001
- Coach of Jaslyn Hewitt for the same period
- Currently working with a number of professional (including doubles’ specialist Todd Perry), aspiring professional and leading South Australian junior players
- Australian Coach of the Year 1998, 1999
- Awarded the Australian Sports Medal 2000
- Member of the Coach Education Committee TCA
- Heavy involvement in the Disabilities area
 Peter with John Fitzgerald (Australian Davis Cup Captain)
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  Peter Smith
Peter Smith is also:
Chairman of State Disabilities Committee
Chairman of Foundation to raise
money for players with a disability
Involved in regular on court coaching programme
Director of State tournament each year at Next Generation
Responsible for coaching programme at Australian Open
Coach of the Australian team competing annually in Europe
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