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:
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 [...]
In the first two weeks of February IMG Tennis took 16 players over two weeks to tournaments in Mexico City and Guadalajara to compete in Grade 4 ITF events.
The first week was Mexico City at the Casablanca club where the top showing was a quarterfinal effort by Xue Zhang and runner up in boys doubles [...]
Seventeen-year-old Ryan Harrison qualified for his second straight ATP event, this time beating South Africa’s Izak van der Merwe at Delray Beach International Tennis Championships. Harrison also made it to the quarterfinals in the doubles draw with fellow IMG pro Taylor Dent. Good luck to all IMGer’s this week! Visit TennisLiveNews.com for more.
Taylor Dent was at IMG Academies on Wednesday training for the Delray Beach International. Amidst the intense hitting session Taylor still had time to sign autographs for some young fans. Be on the lookout for Dent at the Delray Beach tournament, starting February 22.
Stay tuned to Nick’s Pick throughout the 2010 Australian Open for in-depth coverage of the tournament!
Andy Murray (GBR) vs. Roger Federer (SUI)
Murray is 6-4 against Federer, but FedEx has won the last two times they played in 2009. I’ve watched countless hours of Australian Open coverage and this final will be as interesting and thrilling [...]