01 The Pathway
Four levels of coach certification.
Foundation, Instructor, Coach, Master Coach. Hybrid delivery, recurring CPD, external moderation that increases with level.
Coaching Certification
The new standard in court coaching.
Rallova is the certification body for padel and pickleball across Europe and the US — built for tennis coaches ready to lead the next chapter of their career, and for the venues that will host them.
Where are you starting from?
For coaches
I want to coach padel or pickleball — properly.
A real four-level ladder, externally moderated, with a 20-hour bridge for accredited tennis coaches.
The Pathway →For clubs & venues
I run a club and want to add pickleball.
One tennis court becomes up to four pickleball courts. Your coaches get certified. Rallova brings the standard.
For Clubs →What Rallova is
Three things, in one body.
02 The Method
A way of teaching, written down.
Cue discipline, recurring chapter furniture, drill progressions that earn their keep. The same standard in every handbook, video and assessment.
03 The Standard
A badge that means the same thing.
However the coach got it — by Tennis Convert, by full L1, in the UK or in the US — the Rallova badge means one defensible standard.
The market we are building into
Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the world. Padel is one of the fastest in Europe. Neither has the coaching infrastructure they need.
~80M
pickleball players worldwide
24.3M
in the US alone — up around 172% in three years
+130%
French padel participation in three years; the UK has doubled twice in two
Sources: SFIA 2026 Topline Participation Report; FFT 2025; LTA 2025; Tornig Ventures market sizing (2026).
The first product
Tennis Convert L1.
The fastest, friction-light route into Rallova for the highest-quality coach pool in every market: the credentialled tennis coach.
Twenty hours, hybrid. The course recognises everything a tennis coach already holds — pedagogy, safeguarding, group management — and teaches only what is genuinely new. Same assessment as standalone L1; same badge; a fraction of the time.
The Journal
Coaching, the long version.
The Coach's Craft
Why the Bandeja is taught wrong.
The most common fault in the most important padel shot — and the two-word cue that fixes it.
The State of the Game
The window for European pickleball is 18 months.
Pickleball England membership rose 79% in a year. There is no certification body of scale. We have a deadline.
Pathway
From LTA Accredited to Padel Coach, in 20 hours.
Walk-through of the Tennis Convert SKU — what is waived, what is kept, why the badge means the same thing.
Apply, partner, or simply read on.
The L1 Foundation cohorts are open for application. Clubs can book a partnership conversation. Or read the next essay in the Journal.