Interviews

Michelle Jaggard-Lai is a former WTA player and Grand Slam Junior Champion at Wimbledon and the Australian Open. She is also the founder of Jaggard Sports, a tennis player mentorship program that is helping future tennis champions reach their full potential. Mark: Good morning Michelle Jaggard-Lai, it’s a pleasure to speak with you! Michelle: Hi […]

Mark: Hi Conrad! It’s great to have you here. Can you start by telling us a little about yourself and your career in tennis? Conrad Singh: Absolutely. I began my coaching journey over three decades ago, during my last year of high school. I’ve played tennis at various levels, from professional team tennis to satellite […]

Mark: Good morning, Oliver Marach. It’s a pleasure to welcome you to SportsProsConnect for the second time! Please introduce yourself to our readers. Oliver: Good morning, Mark. My name is Oliver Marach. I’m from Graz, Austria. I started playing tennis at the age of 6, but I was never really a highly talented player… my […]

Good afternoon Howard Green and thanks for agreeing to being our first ‘Partner’ Interview in this new series of interviews!   Firstly, please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background in tennis?  I do remember us meeting in person and being very interested in how you have become a firm part of […]

Good morning Magdalena Rybarikova, it’s fantastic to have you be our first interviewee in our new series of interviews with Partners and Gold Members of SportsProsConnect! Please tell us a little about yourself and your amazing career as a tennis player. Magdalena: Hello Mark, thanks a lot for giving me this opportunity. I started to […]

I am delighted to announce the launch of SportsProsConnect – Tennis & Padel.  This has been an exciting project to work on, and has taken more than a year to come to fruition!  It all started in July 2022 with the filming of a new promo video, and has ended with a full re-brand and […]

  I am really excited to be writing this latest update for our blog…  We are just a few weeks away from launching our brand new platform and finalising a full rebrand as ‘SportsProsConnect – Tennis & Padel’!   We have been working on this for more than a year now so we are delighted […]

It only seems like yesterday that I was launching SportsProsConnect in Barcelona in May 2018. I went to Barcelona to help facilitate a Padel coaching course and visited several tennis academies in the city during my trip. I spoke with them about the launch of a new platform, aimed at promoting coaches and academies worldwide. […]

I’ve not long returned from the  Med WTC which took place in Antalya, Turkey at the Megasaray Tennis Academy, and am reflecting on a tough, but superbly run tournament in a beautiful setting.  I am also excited to go back there as soon as possible!  Dates and categories for the next event have just been […]

Good morning Elliot, it’s a pleasure having you here! Please introduce yourself and tell us about your tennis career. Hi Mark, my name is Elliot Pegg and I am a Senior Director of Tennis at CDT. I started coaching when I was 16 back in England where I grew up and then decided to move […]

Good afternoon Marko Jagodic, great to have you here!  Please introduce yourself and what you do in the tennis world to our readers? My name is Marko Jagodic an owner of MPSC Academy in Dongguan, China. I started a small club in Dongguan, China in 2013, and since then it grows to become one of […]

Good morning Fernando Segal, it’s great to have you here…  A long-time and loyal supporter of sportsprosconnect.com and now SportsProsConnect!  Fernando, please introduce yourself and your career in tennis. I am an International Tennis Development Specialist, and have being working in a similar capacity as main consultant with several tennis federations. I have written many tennis books […]

We have an exciting update to bring to you that benefits tennis, pickleball and padel coaches looking for their next job role, and recruiters looking for their next hire! As you may already know SportsProsConnect has been helping coaches to connect with job opportunities worldwide for just over 3 years.  It’s been a long and […]

We wanted to let you know about a good news story from a SPC member Baraka Ominde, 15 from Kenya. You may remember we brought to your attention SPC member Baraka back in December. He was looking for an academy to enhance his tennis and academic skills and I’m pleased to say that he successfully used […]

Good afternoon Miquel Puig. It’s a pleasure to speak with you today! Please start off by introducing yourself to our readers with some background of your tennis career. Good afternoon Mark, thank you for inviting me. I’ve been tennis coach since I was 16 years old when I started in a local primary school teaching […]

Good morning Jared Ominde, its a pleasure to have you with us today! Can you please introduce yourself and family as to your connection with tennis in Kenya? It’s a pleasure talking to you today. I am Jared Ominde father of three great tennis kids namely, Derick Ominde, Baraka Ominde and Innes Achieng. I am […]

Good morning Dean, it’s a pleasure to have you here with us today! Please take a few moments to introduce yourself and your tennis pedigree to our audience. G’day Mark! Whether it’s a good or a bad thing, I was born into tennis. My father was, and still is a very successful professional coach.  I […]

Bill Stamile is the founding father of padel in Canada. Padel would not be played in Canada today were it not for Bill’s relentless persistence and determination. The first Padel court was built in mid-1992 by Bill and his brother, Angelo, inside a Calgary warehouse! The court was used to attract some of Calgary’s top tennis […]

Hi Luis De Sousa, it’s a pleasure to have you here today! Please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about your career to date within the tennis industry? Firstly, thank you very much for this opportunity to share with you some of my tennis experience which has spanned more than 40 years.  I […]

Good morning Emir, please introduce yourself to our audience and tell us about your career in tennis. I am a globally renowned tennis coach & the owner of HAMZIC All American Training, a private coaching company  that was inspired by my collegiate tennis career becoming a JUCO national champion. Since finishing my college tennis career […]