So you have got a talented child. Everyone is telling you he or she can make it to become a pro. And you must make a decision about what to do next. Everyone will tell you it all depends on how much money you have got. How dedicate you are. Are you wiling to take risk?
Should not be that way. Tennis is not ( anymore ) sport for upper class white boys and girls . I agree majority of old stile Couches and some Tennis politicians are still thinking “ If he won’t his child to play Tennis he mast have many “ Nothing can be fare from thru then this statement . From database of yang players that I got 85 % come from ordinary background or even worse. So way is still so difficult and expensive to bring up young players?
Major problem actually lies in difficulty that coaches, managers and academies face of forcing parents of players to honour the contract. The majority of tennis players start their tennis journey very young. So they need help from age 5, 6, or 7 years old. If for example parents of those children sign any kind of contract with a coach, manager or academy when the time comes to pick the fruit of the hard work parents can simply rip up the contract without any sort of consequences. So the academy, coach, or manager invest a huge amount of work and money in the player from age 6 to 16 years old thinking that they will have their money back by taking a percentage from endorsements and sponsorships that the player will have once they become a professional or earlier. That coach, manager or academy can not protect themselves from being dropped before the 16th birthday by the player and his or her parents without receiving any money back whatsoever. Kornicova did this to IMG, sister Williams’ to Ricki Macci, Henman to David Lloyd and many more. Because of that to the time that the law changes it’s going to be wary difficult to mace couches, academies or menageries to trust parents of young players. We should really follow rules of football clubs and there academy contracts.
So until that time comes we should learn how to survive the upbringing of young tennis players.
Local Coaches
Very important part of grass- roots tennis and making tennis more accessible to the masses. But there is a limit to where the local coach can take your child. If your child is one of these characters who like to change things that they want to be in life and their emigrating from the football player, to basketball player, to handball player, to a singer, back to being tennis player the local coach is the best thing for your child. And you never know maybe one day they will stick with tennis and you can then take step 2.
Local Clubs
The 2nd step of tennis life; Your child will be exposed to natural selection without protection. Local Clubs don’t have money or manpower to make a bespoke program to suit your child. Their main concern is to cater for every member of the club. To participate in locally organised tournaments, usually organised by the Federation. They need to make the federation happy and “show them numbers” because the Federation is where they get their main finance from. They don’t need one Nadal only in their club; they need 100 little players on their books. It’s a very important part for you and your child there. You will learn what “Tennis Parent” means. Start living with your first frustrations; learn that your child is not the best in the world and that really the Head Coach of the club does not have “all the time in the world” just for your child. The reality of tennis has now arrived in your life.
Established Coaches
Oh come on! Do you really think that famous and established coaches will dedicate themselves to a boy or girl of 7 or 8 years old? If you consider that the price per hour for a famous coach is 300 euros or more do you really think that they will drop that because of the dream that one day your child will be a Grand Slam winner? Don’t be fooled by some posts in U Tube and personal websites where you can see a young child playing with a famous coach that, that is an everyday equation. The parents of those children paid a lot of money for that day with that top coach. That will actually damage sponsorship possibilities for your child and make you look really… I will talk about this in more detail in future articles.
Academies
If you are careful in choosing the right academy for your child you and your child can not lose out by joining the academy. With tennis programs all good academies will give you an academic program. It’s much easier to achieve sponsorship if your child is a full member of a recognised academy. Don’t forget sponsors or people who make decisions for the sponsors are usually businessmen/ women or marketing and PR people. Their backgrounds come from usually Colleges and Universities and they understand Institutions. So they would much rather give money to an academy then to private people like parents. The most important point is that sponsors don’t want to be seen sponsoring very young children, (they will be eaten alive by the media for exploitation) so if they like certain young players they can always make a deal with the academy or manager of the player that sponsorship will be received by the child and their parents indirectly through the academy or manager. It’s a very complex system that I will try to simplify further in future articles.
Federations
Very important part of your tennis life. Not many federations can boast that they produced many very successful players through their system. But do not forget they are people with money and power. Always try to have a good relationship with the federation of your child but don’t go to deep. Take what you can and stay away from their day to day suggestions of “how to” raise and coach a young player. They are politicians at the end of the day and they gain and lose power quickly. So don’t tie yourselves with any of them because you never know how long they will stay in their positions.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Leonardo's Academy Profile
Leonardo is an ex- Italian tennis player who now runs his own academy in Sicily. He invented a niche in the Tennis Academy business by offering free coaching and bed and breakfast for any female players ranked under 900. He takes a percentage from the player’s earnings.
Nothing wrong with that. Not everyone can reach the Top 100. The idea is actually old however. Boxing gyms started doing the same system 47 years ago. Remember you can still make a living from playing tennis even if your ranking is high. So before you decide to “hang up your racket “ to young try Leonardo first.
I hope that Leonardo doesn’t drop this system and suddenly decide to run his academy like the big guns of Europe, he will not have a chance!!
Website is horrendous, however importantly you can find his contact details there.
Nothing wrong with that. Not everyone can reach the Top 100. The idea is actually old however. Boxing gyms started doing the same system 47 years ago. Remember you can still make a living from playing tennis even if your ranking is high. So before you decide to “hang up your racket “ to young try Leonardo first.
I hope that Leonardo doesn’t drop this system and suddenly decide to run his academy like the big guns of Europe, he will not have a chance!!
Website is horrendous, however importantly you can find his contact details there.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Sutton Tennis Academy
He says:
Sutton Tennis Academy is an international training centre located in South West London, 4 miles from Wimbledon. The Academy offers a flexible approach to meet the training and practice requirements of all levels of player, including professional, full-time and junior performance players, as well as beginners. It is a training base for many world-ranked players.The Academy offers one of the most comprehensive tennis facilities and player support services in Europe, which can be linked with education or language courses.Sutton Tennis Academy offers a variety of tennis programmes that can be personalised to suit individual requirements. It provides weekly or annual programmes and welcomes anyone who is serious about playing tennis.Sutton Tennis Academy is an LTA affiliated High Performance Centre (HPC). The Academy’s superb indoor and outdoor tennis facilities, gyms and combined tennis and education opportunities helped it gain this valued recognition from the LTA. Our main goal as an HPC is to work alongside the LTA to provide the training and structure necessary for all performance players coming through our doors to fulfill their potential.
Players:
Josh Goodall
Emily Webley-Smith
Alexander Slabinsky
Anna Smith
Anna Hawkins
Thomas Colautti
His Credo :
London's Premier Tennis Facility
I say :
The academy is run by Jeremy Bates ex- British top player and it's very close to Wimbledon. They have a "need" to sign partnerships. Their in partnership with the LTA, Tennis Australia, Monte Carlo Tennis Academy, Reeds School etc. Worth mentioning is their partner academy in Spain. Like almost every academy in Great Britain their academy is a fitness and Leisure centre too. So if you don't mind training next to a group of pensioners it's not a bad place (it's freezing in winter they don't have heating). I give them credit for signing partnerships all round the world but to be honest their not yet producing players on their own worth mentioning. If you are in Great Britain for a week or two its quite ok to use their facility for training, obviously if it's not winter!
Sutton Tennis Academy is an international training centre located in South West London, 4 miles from Wimbledon. The Academy offers a flexible approach to meet the training and practice requirements of all levels of player, including professional, full-time and junior performance players, as well as beginners. It is a training base for many world-ranked players.The Academy offers one of the most comprehensive tennis facilities and player support services in Europe, which can be linked with education or language courses.Sutton Tennis Academy offers a variety of tennis programmes that can be personalised to suit individual requirements. It provides weekly or annual programmes and welcomes anyone who is serious about playing tennis.Sutton Tennis Academy is an LTA affiliated High Performance Centre (HPC). The Academy’s superb indoor and outdoor tennis facilities, gyms and combined tennis and education opportunities helped it gain this valued recognition from the LTA. Our main goal as an HPC is to work alongside the LTA to provide the training and structure necessary for all performance players coming through our doors to fulfill their potential.
Players:
Josh Goodall
Emily Webley-Smith
Alexander Slabinsky
Anna Smith
Anna Hawkins
Thomas Colautti
His Credo :
London's Premier Tennis Facility
I say :
The academy is run by Jeremy Bates ex- British top player and it's very close to Wimbledon. They have a "need" to sign partnerships. Their in partnership with the LTA, Tennis Australia, Monte Carlo Tennis Academy, Reeds School etc. Worth mentioning is their partner academy in Spain. Like almost every academy in Great Britain their academy is a fitness and Leisure centre too. So if you don't mind training next to a group of pensioners it's not a bad place (it's freezing in winter they don't have heating). I give them credit for signing partnerships all round the world but to be honest their not yet producing players on their own worth mentioning. If you are in Great Britain for a week or two its quite ok to use their facility for training, obviously if it's not winter!
Monte Carlo Tennis Academy
He says:
MCTA, the first touring tennis academy in the world. MCTA is an elite and exclusive tennis academy with the mission to discover, train and manage the most promising young tennis players in the world and to develop them to become top 100 professional tennis players.The Monte Carlo Country Club (MCCC) is the base for the Monte Carlo Tennis Academy. The Club was inaugurated in 1928 in front of an assembly of royalty, including Gustav V of Sweden, the Great Duke Andre of Russia and HSH Prince Louis II of Monaco. Since its origin the MCCC has always been in the forefront of the international tennis scene.
It plays host to a Masters Series tournament where the greatest names in tennis battle it out year after year on the famous red clay courts; Nastase, Vilas, Borg, Connors, Lendl, Edberg, Becker, Kuerten, Ferrero, and Nadal are just a few who have enthralled spectators and TV audiences worldwide. A Quest for Excellence The Monte Carlo Tennis Academy’s mission is to discover, train and manage the best junior tennis players in the world and develop them to become top professional players. The Monte Carlo Country Club’s association with success and excellence provides the perfect training base for the Academy's players in what is undoubtedly one of the most stunning locations in the world.
Players:
Anna Fitzpatrick
Ilija Vucic
Henri Kontinen
Wesley Moodie
Stefania Boffa
His Credo:
"We’re delighted to be the home base of the Monte Carlo Tennis Academy created by Vincent Hillsdon and David Sammel. We are sure that this new and unique touring tennis academy will rapidly be successful. We are certain the players and the coaching staff of the academy will find here all the necessary facilities to achieve their goals.” Francis Truchi, Director of the MCCC.
I say :
Monte Carlo is some kind of fusion and confusion of an academy. It is really a country club which decided to organise tournaments and then 16 years ago decided to open an academy. These days their trying to create a niche called "travelling academy". Their nice people but they have the attitude of making your child aware, on a daily basis of how lucky he or she is that they have opened their doors for them. Their mainly connected with people from Great Britain they have a good Head Coach and he is using his connections in Great Britain to raise the profile of the academy. If you take out the famous name of Monte Carlo and concentrate on watching the Monte Carlo tennis academy as only an academy you will see that it is an honest but average place to be.
MCTA, the first touring tennis academy in the world. MCTA is an elite and exclusive tennis academy with the mission to discover, train and manage the most promising young tennis players in the world and to develop them to become top 100 professional tennis players.The Monte Carlo Country Club (MCCC) is the base for the Monte Carlo Tennis Academy. The Club was inaugurated in 1928 in front of an assembly of royalty, including Gustav V of Sweden, the Great Duke Andre of Russia and HSH Prince Louis II of Monaco. Since its origin the MCCC has always been in the forefront of the international tennis scene.
It plays host to a Masters Series tournament where the greatest names in tennis battle it out year after year on the famous red clay courts; Nastase, Vilas, Borg, Connors, Lendl, Edberg, Becker, Kuerten, Ferrero, and Nadal are just a few who have enthralled spectators and TV audiences worldwide. A Quest for Excellence The Monte Carlo Tennis Academy’s mission is to discover, train and manage the best junior tennis players in the world and develop them to become top professional players. The Monte Carlo Country Club’s association with success and excellence provides the perfect training base for the Academy's players in what is undoubtedly one of the most stunning locations in the world.
Players:
Anna Fitzpatrick
Ilija Vucic
Henri Kontinen
Wesley Moodie
Stefania Boffa
His Credo:
"We’re delighted to be the home base of the Monte Carlo Tennis Academy created by Vincent Hillsdon and David Sammel. We are sure that this new and unique touring tennis academy will rapidly be successful. We are certain the players and the coaching staff of the academy will find here all the necessary facilities to achieve their goals.” Francis Truchi, Director of the MCCC.
I say :
Monte Carlo is some kind of fusion and confusion of an academy. It is really a country club which decided to organise tournaments and then 16 years ago decided to open an academy. These days their trying to create a niche called "travelling academy". Their nice people but they have the attitude of making your child aware, on a daily basis of how lucky he or she is that they have opened their doors for them. Their mainly connected with people from Great Britain they have a good Head Coach and he is using his connections in Great Britain to raise the profile of the academy. If you take out the famous name of Monte Carlo and concentrate on watching the Monte Carlo tennis academy as only an academy you will see that it is an honest but average place to be.
David Lloyd Academy
He says:
David Lloyd Sports Management gives professional support and personal assistance to our athletes in order to lead them to worldwide success.We offer our future athletes a bespoke service. We understand the rigours and intense scrutiny that our elite athletes meet when performing under the gaze of the media. To compete to the best of their ability they need to focus on what they do best. David Lloyd Sports Management does the rest. That is the only way to reach success together.We know how to do marketing, management, financial and legal consulting, media services, image care and nutritional consulting in the field of Sport. Every single athlete for us is first and foremost an indivual human being with all their strengths and weaknesses and we never forget that.David Lloyd Sports Management is involved with a worldwide network of sponsors and partners. In co-operation with them we build the path to a successful career and provide the possibilities to extraordinary results thanks to our experience.
Every athelete on a full time High Performance Program with one of our academies has a 100% academic scholarship in Reed's or Redbridge.
His Players:
They have more then 60 young players spread over their three academies.
His Credo:
Their changing their "sayings" every week.
I Say :
When you mention the name David Lloyd you immediately know that it is a "Big money, big business" involved. All players that they have signed have sponsors also. Their main objective is players under 18 years old. Very well run academy by their main man Kieron Vorster. I've got info that currently they are investing a lot of money in re- organising and trying to become the "Bolletieri of Europe". For all signed players tennis and academic education is free. If you like a one stop shop for your child this is the academy for you.
David Lloyd Sports Management gives professional support and personal assistance to our athletes in order to lead them to worldwide success.We offer our future athletes a bespoke service. We understand the rigours and intense scrutiny that our elite athletes meet when performing under the gaze of the media. To compete to the best of their ability they need to focus on what they do best. David Lloyd Sports Management does the rest. That is the only way to reach success together.We know how to do marketing, management, financial and legal consulting, media services, image care and nutritional consulting in the field of Sport. Every single athlete for us is first and foremost an indivual human being with all their strengths and weaknesses and we never forget that.David Lloyd Sports Management is involved with a worldwide network of sponsors and partners. In co-operation with them we build the path to a successful career and provide the possibilities to extraordinary results thanks to our experience.
Every athelete on a full time High Performance Program with one of our academies has a 100% academic scholarship in Reed's or Redbridge.
His Players:
They have more then 60 young players spread over their three academies.
His Credo:
Their changing their "sayings" every week.
I Say :
When you mention the name David Lloyd you immediately know that it is a "Big money, big business" involved. All players that they have signed have sponsors also. Their main objective is players under 18 years old. Very well run academy by their main man Kieron Vorster. I've got info that currently they are investing a lot of money in re- organising and trying to become the "Bolletieri of Europe". For all signed players tennis and academic education is free. If you like a one stop shop for your child this is the academy for you.
Patrick Mouratoglou Tennis Academy
He says:
Born in Paris on June 8, 1970, Patrick Mouratoglou long dreamed of pursuing a professional tennis career.His father's influence attempted to steer him in another direction despite a potential which ranked him amongst the best French junior players at the age of 15. This frustration strengthened his desire to never stray from his dream: to be part of the high-level, professional tennis world. After having completed business studies, he reunites with his passion by boldly creating his own tennis academy in 1996. If he could not himself become a tennis champion, he now made it his duty to train them. His motivating, atypical idea is to propose personalized training to the chosen athletes. Where other training centers or academies put forth a system based on natural selection by mixing a large quantity of players, Patrick Mouratoglou promises completely personalized training to a chosen few. If academy members dutifully respect his methods as a innovator, he in turn guarantees them a very small percentage of failure.
His players:
Marcos BAGHDATIS
Yung-Jan CHAN
Anastasia PAVLYUCHENKOVA
Cindy CHALA
Cesar RAMIREZ
Camila GIORGI
Renzo OLIVO
Sebastian LAVIE
Fiona GERVAIS
Jan KRISTIAN SILVA
Quentin FOLLIOT
Juliette MOURATOGLOU
His Credo:
Wow!!! The man has more sayings than a Buddha!!!
I Say:
Born in Paris on June 8, 1970, Patrick Mouratoglou long dreamed of pursuing a professional tennis career.His father's influence attempted to steer him in another direction despite a potential which ranked him amongst the best French junior players at the age of 15. This frustration strengthened his desire to never stray from his dream: to be part of the high-level, professional tennis world. After having completed business studies, he reunites with his passion by boldly creating his own tennis academy in 1996. If he could not himself become a tennis champion, he now made it his duty to train them. His motivating, atypical idea is to propose personalized training to the chosen athletes. Where other training centers or academies put forth a system based on natural selection by mixing a large quantity of players, Patrick Mouratoglou promises completely personalized training to a chosen few. If academy members dutifully respect his methods as a innovator, he in turn guarantees them a very small percentage of failure.
His players:
Marcos BAGHDATIS
Yung-Jan CHAN
Anastasia PAVLYUCHENKOVA
Cindy CHALA
Cesar RAMIREZ
Camila GIORGI
Renzo OLIVO
Sebastian LAVIE
Fiona GERVAIS
Jan KRISTIAN SILVA
Quentin FOLLIOT
Juliette MOURATOGLOU
His Credo:
Wow!!! The man has more sayings than a Buddha!!!
I Say:
Master of self promotion and the only European academy owner who is claiming a throne, "The biggest and the most famous academy in Europe". He uses the names of Baghdatis and Jan Silva to sell his books. His website is created like a shrine to himself. Extremely clever businessman and if he concentrates on managing players only he will rise to the level of IMG. My advice to parents is to read any contract that he offers you twice because he has made them in that way that he is always in a win, win situation. Tennis wise their isn't much to say but I give him credit for self- promotion and marketing. A little inside info: Baghdatis was not happy with how he was portrayed in Mourataglou book.
Bruguera Tennis Academy
He says :
Bruguera Tennis Academy Top Team located in Barcelona, Spain, is a school specialized in young tennis players. The main objective is to provide a complete training and education to its students including cultural aspects. Top Team is a key institution in the tennis community as a training school for players, coaches and clubs. We offer advise to other schools, tennis clubs, tennis federations, and we also organize workshops and company events.
Players from more than 30 countries train in our school where individual development and cross-cultural experience are fundamental aspects of their work. The Academy has an academic school and student dormitories in the same campus. Bruguera Tennis Academy Top Team have Psychology program for the personal and sport development of the player,assistance to tournaments under the supervision of the coach, with a complete technical Staff with and the necessary services for the development of the players.
His Credo:
The disipline, the value of personal effort, the coexistencee, cultural formation and spirit to struggle are aspects which form not only part of tennis player, but which form the charater of a person to confront with success any challenge in his or her life.
I Say:
Two Bruguera's and their team definetly know what they are doing. Their Academy has the feel of a great family atmosphere. Their academic programme is second to none. They respect science in sport so you should feel very safe that your child is medically monitored properly. If you wish to master the game on clay this academy is the only place to be.
They should really however do something about their website. It's very complicated and looks more like a forum then an academy's website.
Bruguera Tennis Academy Top Team located in Barcelona, Spain, is a school specialized in young tennis players. The main objective is to provide a complete training and education to its students including cultural aspects. Top Team is a key institution in the tennis community as a training school for players, coaches and clubs. We offer advise to other schools, tennis clubs, tennis federations, and we also organize workshops and company events.
Players from more than 30 countries train in our school where individual development and cross-cultural experience are fundamental aspects of their work. The Academy has an academic school and student dormitories in the same campus. Bruguera Tennis Academy Top Team have Psychology program for the personal and sport development of the player,assistance to tournaments under the supervision of the coach, with a complete technical Staff with and the necessary services for the development of the players.
His Credo:
The disipline, the value of personal effort, the coexistencee, cultural formation and spirit to struggle are aspects which form not only part of tennis player, but which form the charater of a person to confront with success any challenge in his or her life.
I Say:
Two Bruguera's and their team definetly know what they are doing. Their Academy has the feel of a great family atmosphere. Their academic programme is second to none. They respect science in sport so you should feel very safe that your child is medically monitored properly. If you wish to master the game on clay this academy is the only place to be.
They should really however do something about their website. It's very complicated and looks more like a forum then an academy's website.
Niki Pilic-Tennis Academy
He says:
Niki Pilic was born in Split in 1939 and decided indeed quiet late to dedicate his whole live only to the professional tennis sport. Before he devoted himself fully to tennis, he finished the grammar school, graduated in a shipbuilding study and studied law.Niki Pilic has truly realized all dreams of a tennis pro, as a player as well as a coach.As a player (ATP Nr. 4) he reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon and Rome, the final of Paris and was the first winner of the Stockholm Open. In his carrier he defeated all the big names of tennis sport as Borg, Vilas and Connor and in 1973 when he was nearly 34 years old he even succeeded to play in the final of the French Open in Paris once again.Niki Pilic was at the service for the DTB since 1982. From 1985 to 1997 he was Captain of the German Davis Cup Team and helped it in 1988, 1989 and 1993 to triumph. Boris Becker, Michael Stich and Goran Ivanisevic have been trained by him as single players. In 1989 and in 1994 the German Team won the World Team Cup under the leadership of Niki Pilic.Since the year 2000 Niki Pilic is Team Captain of his home country Croatia. Under his leadership Croatia was promoted from the 3. liga of the Davis Cup straight to the world group and already defeated the American Davis Cup Team three times and the German Team once.In December 2005 Niki Pilic finally achieved the unbelievable. The Croatian Davis Cup Team won under his leadership the final against Slovakia, the first Davis Cup triumph of the Croatians in history.Furthermore Niki Pilic is the first Team Captain who won the Davis Cup 4 times within his career and on top with two different nations.Today he puts his entire energy in the discovery and development of young talents, to give them the same chance as he has got in his live:
A dream comes true.
His Students:
Male
Novak Djokovic
Ernest Gulbis
Lado Chikhladze
Kostantin Kravchuk
Sören Goritzka
Female
Sandra Klösel
Masa Zec-Peskiric
Ana Jovanovic
Tadeja Majeric
Natasa Zoric
Kristina Steiert
His Credo: "work and discipline"
I Say;
Nothing can be more true about Niki Pilic then his credo. A man with bags of experience and passion. He knows every trick from the book so if your child is upper- middle class and spoilt who uses every single excuse for their short comings don't go to Niki. His team has got fantastic depth of knowledge and experience and if your child is a hard working honest person Niki Pilic Academy is a good place to be.
We should not forget in the time that Crotia and Serbia were in war Niki was bringing Crotian Davis Cup Team to the top level and at the same time solely responsible for bringing up young Serbian tennis players. This speaks volumes for Niki Pilic as a person.
Niki Pilic was born in Split in 1939 and decided indeed quiet late to dedicate his whole live only to the professional tennis sport. Before he devoted himself fully to tennis, he finished the grammar school, graduated in a shipbuilding study and studied law.Niki Pilic has truly realized all dreams of a tennis pro, as a player as well as a coach.As a player (ATP Nr. 4) he reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon and Rome, the final of Paris and was the first winner of the Stockholm Open. In his carrier he defeated all the big names of tennis sport as Borg, Vilas and Connor and in 1973 when he was nearly 34 years old he even succeeded to play in the final of the French Open in Paris once again.Niki Pilic was at the service for the DTB since 1982. From 1985 to 1997 he was Captain of the German Davis Cup Team and helped it in 1988, 1989 and 1993 to triumph. Boris Becker, Michael Stich and Goran Ivanisevic have been trained by him as single players. In 1989 and in 1994 the German Team won the World Team Cup under the leadership of Niki Pilic.Since the year 2000 Niki Pilic is Team Captain of his home country Croatia. Under his leadership Croatia was promoted from the 3. liga of the Davis Cup straight to the world group and already defeated the American Davis Cup Team three times and the German Team once.In December 2005 Niki Pilic finally achieved the unbelievable. The Croatian Davis Cup Team won under his leadership the final against Slovakia, the first Davis Cup triumph of the Croatians in history.Furthermore Niki Pilic is the first Team Captain who won the Davis Cup 4 times within his career and on top with two different nations.Today he puts his entire energy in the discovery and development of young talents, to give them the same chance as he has got in his live:
A dream comes true.
His Students:
Male
Novak Djokovic
Ernest Gulbis
Lado Chikhladze
Kostantin Kravchuk
Sören Goritzka
Female
Sandra Klösel
Masa Zec-Peskiric
Ana Jovanovic
Tadeja Majeric
Natasa Zoric
Kristina Steiert
His Credo: "work and discipline"
I Say;
Nothing can be more true about Niki Pilic then his credo. A man with bags of experience and passion. He knows every trick from the book so if your child is upper- middle class and spoilt who uses every single excuse for their short comings don't go to Niki. His team has got fantastic depth of knowledge and experience and if your child is a hard working honest person Niki Pilic Academy is a good place to be.
We should not forget in the time that Crotia and Serbia were in war Niki was bringing Crotian Davis Cup Team to the top level and at the same time solely responsible for bringing up young Serbian tennis players. This speaks volumes for Niki Pilic as a person.
How to use Junior Tennis News
For Parents
On the right side you will find various links of things that I personally think are good and working. I don't put any links before I use all my know how and connections in the tennis world to check them out. You are welcome to suggest the coach or academy which is involved in the upbringing of your child and I will make sure that they have got free promotion. You can also write about your personal experiences (obviously about tennis and young people) and it will be published. Send info about your child and I will make sure that he or she has exposure in the right direction and possibly attract sponsors.
For Coaches
You are welcome to send your details and I will promote you (obviously if you are good). You are free to send some advice that young players and their parents may be able to use.
Note!
Guru's no need to apply. I already know everything about every guru and his unique system and how they brought up number 1 players on their own (3 guru's are claiming that their system alone brought up the sister Williams' at the same time to their top level).
For Academies
Academies don't need to apply because I have enough information about you. Thank you.
For Tournament Organisers
Please send links and announcements of your up and coming tournaments regardless of how small and local they are. They are an important part of a young tennis players life.
Clubs
Please send links and info about your club. You are very important for getting children involved in tennis.
Sponsors
Your money is very welcome, contact me and I will give you free advice and suggestions from my huge database of young, up and coming players who will give your business the biggest exposure if you sponsor him or her. Measurements are done on market territory that you want to attract, produce or service that you provide etc.
If anybody feels left out please don't hesitate in contacting me!!!
On the right side you will find various links of things that I personally think are good and working. I don't put any links before I use all my know how and connections in the tennis world to check them out. You are welcome to suggest the coach or academy which is involved in the upbringing of your child and I will make sure that they have got free promotion. You can also write about your personal experiences (obviously about tennis and young people) and it will be published. Send info about your child and I will make sure that he or she has exposure in the right direction and possibly attract sponsors.
For Coaches
You are welcome to send your details and I will promote you (obviously if you are good). You are free to send some advice that young players and their parents may be able to use.
Note!
Guru's no need to apply. I already know everything about every guru and his unique system and how they brought up number 1 players on their own (3 guru's are claiming that their system alone brought up the sister Williams' at the same time to their top level).
For Academies
Academies don't need to apply because I have enough information about you. Thank you.
For Tournament Organisers
Please send links and announcements of your up and coming tournaments regardless of how small and local they are. They are an important part of a young tennis players life.
Clubs
Please send links and info about your club. You are very important for getting children involved in tennis.
Sponsors
Your money is very welcome, contact me and I will give you free advice and suggestions from my huge database of young, up and coming players who will give your business the biggest exposure if you sponsor him or her. Measurements are done on market territory that you want to attract, produce or service that you provide etc.
If anybody feels left out please don't hesitate in contacting me!!!
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