PROS AND LESSONS
At Sir Winston Churchill Park Tennis Club, we offer lessons and instruction for every level of player. There are private, semi private and group lessons offered by each of our pros and these are available for adult, senior and junior players. Lessons and clinics are open to club members only.
For adults we also offer series of clinics throughout the season that cover many aspects of play from beginner to skilled level players. There are sessions that focus on doubles strategy to learning the game offered in these very popular series. Additionally, we regularly offer adult daytime summer camps to meet demand by members.
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Find about our Junior Programs here.
PROS
Sir Winston Churchill Park Tennis Club has a premium coaching team headed by Ryan Chow. The team offers a range of instruction to all levels of players from juniors, adult and senior beginners to high level players. SWCPTC offers private, semi private and group clinics regularly.
Tennis is a great sport and our teaching team is pleased to teach and help our members learn and enjoy the game.
RYAN CHOW
HEAD PRO
We are excited to welcome back Ryan Chow as the Head Tennis Professional for the 2025 season. Ryan holds a Club Professional 3 and Coach 3 certification with Tennis Canada, in addition to a wheelchair tennis certification. He is excited to share these skills and is looking forward to developing, organizing, and managing the coaching programs at Sir Winston Churchill Park Tennis Club.
Ryan brings with him a wealth of experience and brings an integrated approach to help players develop. For the past 16 years, Ryan has worked with a wide range of levels from recreational to performance level players, captained junior intercounty/adult league teams and has been an integral part of numerous tennis clubs, nationally as well as internationally. Some of his players under his guidance have gone on to have success on the National stage finishing top 8 at Under 16 Nationals in 2023. He has toured with internationally ranked juniors and while under his supervision have become ITF event champions. Also, Ryan has helped local players with their annual plans for training periods and putting the building blocks to developing them into provincial and national level players. Several of these players are now competing or were competing for their respective universities in Canada and the US. Currently he spends his winters coaching at The Supreme Court working with the adult members, planning the yearly, weekly, and daily development as a private coach for several junior players, working with provincial ranked junior players and ranked senior players.
Ryan most recently held the position as the Head Tennis Professional at Leaside Tennis Club (2012-2019). He has also worked with the Toronto Tennis Academy for over 10 years, and in 2011-12 worked with the Ontario National Training Centre’s Under 8 and Under 9 program. Ryan has worked abroad and has held the positions as Head Tennis Professional at Yellowknife Tennis Club(administered all NWT programs for the Territories tennis plan), and Assistant Tennis Professional for the Wanaka Tennis Club in New Zealand.
As a player, Ryan competed on a tennis scholarship at Bloomsburg University in the US. During this time, Ryan helped his team earn a conference championships, reach the final 16 at the NCAA National Championships, and was named to the All-Conference Team in both singles and doubles. After college, Ryan traveled playing Professional Tennis on the Futures Circuit and was ranked on the ATP Tour. At the moment he enjoys helping the sport grow, developing future players, and playing for fun in the Mayfair Pro League. He spends far too much time consumed by the Leafs, is a home chef, and likes the outdoors.
In 2025, Ryan looks forward to being engaged with the club’s members in creating with them a positive, enjoyable, and successful experience. There will be a systematic pathway to help the long-term development of both the beginner and competitive player. Feel free to chat about tennis if you see him around the club house or reach out via email to discuss your tennis goals, program questions and to book a lesson or find the right pro for your game!
PAUL WEISER
ASSISTANT PRO
Paul is extremely excited to be joining Sir Winston Churchill Park Tennis Club for the 2025 season! He has been coaching at various clubs around Toronto for the last 5 years, including Mayfair Lakeshore, Bennington Heights and Valley Tennis Club. He is a TPA certified instructor and thoroughly enjoys working with kids and adults at all levels. Paul loves sharing his passion for the game with his students, and believes tennis is a great way to stay active and spend time with friends.
Paul has been playing tennis for just about his entire life. Having displayed an aptitude for the game at a young age, he played competitively at a provincial level and trained with Ontario’s National Tennis Centre program. After U12, Paul left the realm of ultra-competitive tennis but continued playing recreationally and eventually competed for his high school team. In more recent years he has played in weekly doubles leagues around the city.
When Paul is not on the tennis court, he enjoys playing the drums, watching movies, and hanging out with his family’s Bernese Mountain Dog, Sally. He is really looking forward to meeting everyone on the courts this year!
Alonso is a TPA certified instructor who has recent experience working at Mayfair West and York Old Mill Tennis Club. He also worked at Merchant of Tennis for 3 years, leaving him with in depth knowledge of tennis equipment and stringing. Alonso is from Mexico City, and has been playing tennis since he was 6 years old.
As a junior, he competed nationally at a high level, and he has brought his enthusiasm for tennis with him to Toronto. He regularly plays in leagues and tournaments throughout the city, keeping up with his love for the game. With a lifelong experience in the tennis world, Alonso is happy to help with any facet of the sport, and hopes to provide a fun yet insightful experience in developing your game. He is excited to join the team at Sir Winston Churchill Park Tennis Club and is looking forward to meeting you soon!
ALONSO CORTES
ASSISTANT PRO
Thomas Lawlor is excited to be rejoining the Sir Winston Churchill Park Tennis Club coaching team for his fourth season. He is a TPA certified tennis coach and former junior Nationals level player in Canada.
Thomas has coached for the past 9 years at multiple clubs around the city of Toronto, including working as Site Manager for the Doug Philpott Tennis Foundation, Assistant Coach at Leaside Tennis Club and coaching high performance players at Mayfair West.
Currently, in addition to teaching at SWCPTC, Thomas works as a junior development coach at the Badminton and Racquet Club of Toronto.
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THOMAS LAWLOR
ASSISTANT PRO
GABRIELA MONGUA
ASSISTANT PRO
Gabriela is excited to join the club for the upcoming season! Gabriela is certified by Tennis Canada and as of February 2024 completed Club Professional 1. Previously to working at the club Gabriela has worked at Mayfair Tennis Club and has been a site manager for the Doug Philpott Inner City Tennis Program/Camps for the summer seasons. This opportunity has helped Gabriela give back to the community through coaching/mentoring and help an underserved population gain exposure to the sport. Outside of coaching Gabriela is currently a student-athlete at York University on the varsity team majoring in psychology.
Gabriela’s tennis journey started at a very young age back in Colombia, playing tournaments and training as a high-performance player competing nationally and internationally until age 14, before moving to Canada. In Canada Gabriela trained at the North York Tennis Association in the High-Performance junior program and since then tennis has had a huge impact on Gabriela’s life and given many opportunities to learn from and grow as a person. Gabriela looks forward to meeting you all to improve your game and to build a strong tennis community where we can learn from each other.
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TOM CHOW
ASSISTANT PRO
Tom brings over 40 years of tennis coaching experience. He is currently certified as a Tennis Canada Instructor. Previously he held a Coach 1 certification under the previous coaching system in Canada and was the Head Tennis professional at Etobicoke Olympiam in the early 1980’s. Even though he decided to have a career behind a desk for 30 years he was still active in coaching at clubs such as Kew Gardens, Rosedale, Fitness Institute, and coaching private students around the city. He has been helping out at the club the past two years and this year he plans to return in a similar role within the afterschool junior development and within the adult development clinics.
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