When IMG Bollettieri Tennis’ William Topham moved from San Francisco, California, he was leaving more than just the beautiful weather. He found great weather down in Florida but his band, Romance of Thieves, stayed behind.
The band consists of three friends who grew up together in California, taking a break in August when Will decided to [...]
Beatrice Cedermark from Sweden became runner up again in doubles in Costa rica, a G3 ITF Junior event held from March 8-13. Her partner was Nadia Ravita from Indonesia. Out of the 3 matches they had to win to get to the finals, two of them were decided in a 3rd set match tie breaker. [...]
Ryan Harrison is currently at Indian Wells where he’ll play in his first BNP Paribas Open. In his first match he’ll go up against the familiar face of Taylor Dent; the two often train together at IMG Academies. An article in MyDesert.com highlighted Harrison’s emergence onto the American tennis scene, and some newfound camaraderie between [...]
My name is David “Red” Ayme. I have worked directly with Nick at IMG Academies for the past 22 years as head traveling coach, traveling with many of our touring pros including Boris Becker and Marcelo Rios, both of whom achieved a #1 world ranking. I also spent 8 years traveling full time with Tommy [...]
A total of 8 students went with Traveling Coach Ricardo Icaza, to play an ITF JR Tennis Tournament in Guatemala City from Feb. 27th to March 6th. They were Beatrice Cedermark, Amina Berdieva and Naomi Totka. Boys, Pedro Gonzalez, Alex Sendegeya, Nikita Valuiskykh, Yifan Dang and Jeofrrey Noblecourt.
Beatrice Cedermark made it to the semifinals of [...]
German Sanchez came to the IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy as a 12-year-old with lofty dreams of one day playing professionally and representing his home country of Mexico in the Davis Cup.
The problem was, he barely knew the game.
“We arrived here the first time, and Nick (Bollettieri) and Jairo (Aldana) said, ‘No, no, that’s not the [...]
Check out features from Gillette World Sport on the legendary Nick Bollettieri and up-and-coming star/11-year-old IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy student Mariya Shishkina. The show is seen in more than 200 countries.
Considered by many to be the next great American men’s tennis player, 17-year-old Ryan Harrison was featured in a segment on the Gillette World Sport television show.
Check out the IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy student’s interview below:
Be Fun to play against!
Playing and practicing Tennis with Passion can help your development in several ways.
Even if your skill set is not where you want it, try and get to every ball and show your coach and playing partners you are doing your best and you love the game.
You should be able [...]
Here is a tip on INTENSITY from coach Brian Gottfreid:
“While working with a group of about 10 junior boys today I saw that the intensity level during the warmup was not very high. After 15 minutes the coaches pulled the players back onto one court and had 2 of the same players demonstrate the [...]