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Coup Droit


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If any one could add to this, I'd be interested in starting some sort of list showing which of our players (adults and junior) are attached to, or used to be attached to, a foreign academy and which one

I'm meaning for at least a couple of years, not just summer programmes or whatever and including those actually with families based abroad (although I'm not including those who've actually changed nationality, although one could). Haven't included ex-players either although one could. (Also, no college players).

 

Here's as far as I've got:

 

Andy - Sanchez-Casal, Barcelona

James - Equelite, Valencia

Heather - Bolletieri, Florida

Tara - Bolletieri, Florida

Harriet Dart - Koza Wos Academy, Turkey

Manisha - Soto

JWH - Soto

Aswin Lizen - Barcelona, Sanchez Casal

Eleanor Dean - Clijsters, Belgium

Amanda Carreras - Sergi Bruguera, Barcelona

Dan Cox - Marco Tennis Academy, Marbella

Naomi Cavaday - Bolletieri, Florida

Isabelle Wallace - Australia, and now training in Valencia, Spain - now Australian again

Eden Silva - with Robert Lansdorp in California; currently CF Tennis Academy, Dubai

Billy Harris - Soto

Beth Askew - Soto

Laura Sainsbury - Soto

Fran Wilkes - Soto

James Allemby - Spain, under Abel Rincon Vazquez, Ad-in-Portas-Puentas Tennis Academy

Alex Ward - Spain, under Abel Rincon Vazquez, Ad-in-Portas-Puentas Tennis Academy

Matt Short - Spain

Lloyd Glasspool - (US college +) Soto

Josh Paris - 4SlamTennis - Barcelona

Dan Dowson - Spain, Ad-in-Portas-Puentas Tennis Academy

Suzy Larkin - Juan Carlos Ferrero Academy, Spain

Gabi Taylor - Total tennis, Barcelona/ EBA Marbella

Mirabelle Njoze - ISP, France

Katie Swan - Kansas

Mia Smith - Bolletieri, Florida

Anna Brogan - Bolletieri, Florida

Ryan Storrie - California; then 4Slam Tennis, Barcelona; Ferrer academy, Spain

Francesca Jones - Sanchez Casal, Barcelona - Ad-in-Portas-Puentas Tennis Academy

Joel Cannell - Henin, Belgium and Total Tennis, Barcelona

Maia Lumsden - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Alex Sendegeya - Bolletieri, Florida

Rhett Purcell - New Zealand

Emily Smith - Soto

Jay Clarke - Good to Great Academy, Sweden

Alice McGinty - Barcelona, Sanchez Casal

Barnaby Smith - Barcelona, Sanchez Casal

Max Stewart - 4Slam Tennis Barcelona

Dominic West - Soto

 

 

Matilda Mutavdzic - Kim Clijsters Academy, Belgium; Serbian academy; Rafa Nadal academy in Spain 

Holly Fischer - US/Mouratoglou

Marni Banks - Sanchez Casal

Eleanor Baglow - JC Ferrero Equelite Academy, Valencia

Joe White - Barcelona, Sanchez Casal

Blu Baker -  Gomez Tennis Academy , Naples, Florida, US

 

I'm sure there's lots I've missed . . .

 



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 8th of April 2021 09:15:46 AM

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It's interesting to see so many at Bolletieri. Only heard bad things on the men's side but maybe they have more success with the women. Although the only opinions I hear are from irate Americans on the Roddick comedown bored with their top 5-6 prospects playing the exact same game!

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Bolletieri sometimes has to be caveated as applications to train and stay there as juniors are open to anyone, and any player with ranking points can pay to go to one of the pro training camps (where they are assessed and matched-up into groups). So if I player says 'I train at Bollitieri's' it doesn't actually mean a great deal.

The crucial thing with Bollitieri is being able to find out which players are just one of the numbers, and which are having proper investment put into them - Heather being a very obvious UK example.

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Any chance, CD, of putting an asterisk or something by the ones who are still based abroad so we can differentiate them from those now training elsewhere?



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Anyone with the money can go and train at these academies. There are courses for everyone, from aspiring pro right down through to weekend warrior.

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The Optimist wrote:

Any chance, CD, of putting an asterisk or something by the ones who are still based abroad so we can differentiate them from those now training elsewhere?

 

All the juniors, except Izzy, are currently based at the academy mentioned.

Only Manisha among the adults is still based there, as far as I know (not sure about Mandy) but I don't think adults are quite the same i.e. lots of traveling, the base isn't that key.

 

NB Eddie and PaulM, I wasn't meaning in the slightest that being at an academy meant you were any good - you could be a star or you could be just a 'grunt' player. I was just interested in how many players that we know (i.e. not the absolute bog standard players because no one will ever have heard of them) but how many of those we know are, or have been as juniors, based at foreign academies.



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I've updated Izzy Wallace as seemingly she is now based in Valencia, Spain, for training.

scotland.oncourtmagazine.co.uk/ereader/html5/index.html

pg. 10-13

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And Rafa is set to launch his own new mega tennis academy:


www.youtennis.net/News/Detail/6347%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtennis.net%2FLiveTV%3FArea%3D#.VHXdqcn2QUg

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'Tis the season and all that . ..

Well done to Soto for a lovely video and, seemingly, for running an excellent academy. Great team spirit, it seems to me.


www.youtube.com/watch



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Not really 'new' but I came across a nice little tribute to Nicola Slater from the French Daniel Contet Tennis/Studies academy site where she spent two years before US uni:

www.tennis-tdc.com/preparation-a-lentree-en-universite-americaine/

(in French)



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 31st of January 2015 10:50:35 AM

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I've updated the list to include Jay Clarke, currnetly based in the Good to Great Academy in Sweden.

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Good stuff.

I trust that we will in time be seeing great stuff from Jay :)

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I see that Alex Ward is now training (and based?) down at the Portas-Puentes academy in Barcelona.

Does anyone know if this is a permanent base now or just a summer training stint?

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Isn't Alex at Nottingham?

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Coup Droit


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Maybe it's just a summer thing then but he posted this a few days ago:

"Start of a new chapter today as I start training @Portas_Puentes. Excited & motivated!"


And has changed his twitter page, and tweeted a lot about it.


There's also a cute video blog, put up yesterday, about the team (or one Spanish guy, at any rate) around him at the tournament he's playing this week:

www.youtube.com/watch


he certainly looks to be having a good time

 

PS the girl towards the end of the video, who seems to be rooming with Alex and the Spaniard, is (pretty sure) Alexandra Nancarrow from Australia, WR 438, who also sounds like she's joined the same academy very recently.



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 8th of July 2015 01:29:44 PM

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