Coach has an ace up his sleeve

MALENY Tennis Club’s new coach Janos Kroyherr has his eyes set on lifting the prominence and skills within the hinterland club as he takes the reins for the second time.

Janos spoke to GC&M News about his journey to Maleny and his plans for the club.

He said some his initiatives for the junior players include local competitions and the implementation of his personally curated coaching style, ‘coaching, practice, match play’ (CPM).

“We are going to run tournaments in conjunction with Kilcoy once a month between clubs, and two of the four tournaments will be club championships, getting kids the club with the Maleny State Primary School run by Tennis Queensland, to get more kids interested in tennis.

The natural sportsman first started playing tennis after moving to Melbourne from England aged 10. After trying out cricket, football and tennis, he found himself leaning towards tennis, where he excelled.

After years of training, he ventured to the US with a college scholarship, but heart complications cut short his playing career.

“I ended up passing out on the court in Georgia and went to hospital and they operated but it didn’t work, so that stopped my playing and for the remainder of my visa I started coaching,” he