In a recent trip to NYC for a USTA camp, the players and coaches who participated in the camp had the opportunity to listen to a talk from a former ... Read more

One of the best tennis players in the 90s was Monica Seles. Monica grew up in Yugoslavia and then went to the Nick Bollettieri tennis Academy in Florida. Her dad ... Read more

Despite losing in an early round of the Australian Open this year to Emma Raducanu, Amanda Anisimova showed an incredible ability for ball striking and willingness to continue going for ... Read more

As we make a full transition into outdoor tennis, I look back at my early years in New England. Back then, I set a goal for myself and the programs ... Read more

After watching the last home match of the season for the Harvard men’s team, Coach Ricardo and I were invited for a small dinner celebration for the three seniors in ... Read more

This upcoming Sunday, Coach Ricardo and I are heading down to Harvard University to watch one of our long-time alumni, Daniel Milavsky compete in his last home match representing the ... Read more

I have been wanting to outline a few important TIPS for competition that might seem simple and sometimes obvious, but that unfortunately the nerves and anxiety of junior competition bring ... Read more

Dear Tennis Academy Family, Despite the fact that my dad’s side of the family had always been involved with tennis (his parents’ house was literally across the street from the ... Read more

For some reason, I have always enjoyed paying close attention to the different patterns in which players train, and especially to the little things that they do during their week-to-week ... Read more

Coach Ricardo and I had an awesome opportunity to travel to the Madrid Open this year for a few days of incredible tennis matches and practices from the very best ... Read more

Struggle is a word that always comes to mind when I reflect on my years as a junior player. As a late starter in the tournament scene, the insecurities that ... Read more

Because I was lucky enough to do my share of travelling in the 90s in the professional tour, I was often a witness of the following. One would walk into ... Read more

Dear Academy Family, One important piece of our program (and one of our favorite ones) is the open-door policy that we have with our former students who are now participating ... Read more

My first memory of Rafa is from 2002 while attending the ITF junior event that happens right before Wimbledon in London (I was coaching the IMG players who were competing ... Read more

This past weekend was exactly a year since the time that I decided to take a step into the professionally unknown world of independence after having worked for two incredible ... Read more

As we navigate the process of our junior players in their pursuit to maximize their potential and reach high level goals, we find ourselves looking for what to do to ... Read more

As part of the USTA National Faculty coaching program, I had t the opportunity to participate as one of the coaches of a National Camp last weekend at the training ... Read more

The story goes that when the last crew of GREAT men American players was active (Sampras, Chang, Agassi, and Courier), a person would walk into the player lounge area of ... Read more

It only takes a few minutes watching Rafael Nadal in person to realize what incredible natural ability he was “born” with. Standing at a big and strong 6’2” of height ... Read more

The tournament system in the US has to be used as a positive tool for our youngsters to develop throughout the difficult junior years. The fact that we have opportunities ... Read more

As a junior player, I was not a doubles’ specialist because there was not such a thing. Doubles were a part of the national and international events that I competed ... Read more

I had a nice conversation with a family from the Netherlands who is considering moving to the Boston area next year, and they wanted to find out more about what ... Read more

During the mid 1990s, one of the touring professional players who would stop by and do short training blocks at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy was an American guy named ... Read more

Back in 2005, two of the most promising 18-year-olds in the world had to face each other in the first round of the US Open main draw. The names are ... Read more

At the beginning of August of this year, my wife told me to leave a particular Friday evening open at the end of the month because she had gotten tickets ... Read more

In Colombia, we don’t have a holiday celebration like Thanksgiving. For me growing up, it was simply something that we saw in all the TV shows, but I actually had ... Read more

When the USTA had its national training center in Boca Raton (Before they moved to Orlando), they had a series of banners around the courts with famous sayings from former ... Read more

Dear Tennis Academy Family, Yesterday, we said goodbye to our dear Coach Fanni. Fanni and her husband (Omar) have decided to move to California because he has signed a fulltime ... Read more

My first attempt to become a competitive junior player and follow my father’s steps didn’t go well at all. As a ten-year-old, I played in 5 or 6 tournaments and ... Read more

Juan Carlos Ferrero (Former Number one player in the world and French Open champion) coached Alexander Zverev for seven months in 20217. During the time that they spent together, Zverev ... Read more