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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